For more than 40 years, the 1970 Kappa Alpha Order pledge class has gathered annually in February as a way to stay connected. This February marked the group’s 50th pledge anniversary, so they returned to Wofford to reconnect with the college as well.
They toured the new Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium and Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts and walked through the renovated library and the Roger Milliken Science Center. They passed construction sites for Jerome Johnson Richardson Hall and the Chandler Center for Environmental Studies and followed the music to the Stewart H. Johnson Greek Village where they met a new pledge class of Kappa Alpha brothers.
Along the way, they told stories, reminisced about Dr. Don Dobbs and the pitt, stood in the spot where they met their spouse and pointed to the window that they looked out of when they were first-year students in Greene Hall. After the tour, Prema and Nayef Samhat held a dinner for the group at the President’s Home.
Ready for their tour of the indoor stadium are: Susan and Bill Ariail ’74, Polly and Det Bowers ’74, Lyrae and Blake Boyd ’74, Susan and Bobby Carpenter ’74, Boyd Hipp ’74, Ruthie (not pictured) and Bud Knight ’74, Grazier and Toy Rhea ’74, Jean and Sam Riddle ’74, Beth and Robin Todd ’74, Catherine and Perrin Trotter ’74, Sally and Lewis White ’74, Wickie and Woody Willard ’74 (who arranged the tour and hosted the Spartanburg reunion event), Sylvia and Bobby Wood ’74 and Courtney and Phill Yarborough ’74.