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As a teenager, Steve Wohlwend was recruited to play golf for then-Lander College following a successful career at Irmo High School. His high school teammates John Atkinson, Mel Gaddy and Rex Johnston attended Lander, and after a recruitment trip to Jackson Station, Steve was sold. 

The incoming freshman class at Lander University had an introduction to campus and to the Greenwood community unlike any other incoming class in Lander’s history.

After a successful partnership between Lander University, The City of Greenwood and Uptown Greenwood for Lander’s Freshman Move-in Day and “Launch Into Lander” festivities, the three are joining forces once again to provide a community concert on the Lander University campus.

The next meeting of the Lander Foundation Board of Directors is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 16, at 1 p.m.

An estimated 880 freshmen and 61 transfer students moved onto the Lander University campus on Tuesday, August 14, and by all accounts, the process went smoothly.

Two cadets of the Lander University Army ROTC were commissioned as officers of the United States Army at Lander on Friday, August 9.

Andy Benoit, Lander University vice president for Enrollment and Access Management, is leaving his post to take a similar position at Texas A&M — Corpus Christi.

Chrissie Cofield had dreams of being a law enforcement difference-maker early in her life. “One of my high school classmates wrote in my ninth grade yearbook that she hoped I became the police officer I always spoke of being,” she recalls.

Rewarding careers are always within reach with a degree from Lander University. That reach now includes the City of Greenwood’s top executive post.

Lander University announced today that Demario Watts has been appointed to the position of director of Student Activities.