John Culp to be awarded honorary Wofford doctorate

A South Carolina United Methodist pastor is being awarded an honorary doctorate from Wofford College.

The Board of Trustees and faculty of Wofford College have voted to confer upon the Rev. John Wesley Culp an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree at their commencement exercises, set for 9:30 a.m. Sunday, May 18.

The highest honor that Wofford bestows is an honorary degree. In their letter to Culp, they noted they seek to pay tribute to those who are both great and good, who in their lives and careers have conspicuously embodied those traits for which a Wofford education stands.

“We believe that Wofford College is one of the greatest examples anywhere of liberal arts education at its finest; people like you who have risen to the pinnacle of success help to offer tangible evidence that education is truly transformational and deserves to be recognized,” Wofford President Nayef H. Samhat stated in the letter to him.