2014 Meeting Information 
9 
Spartanburg Methodist College seeks to serve the educational needs of its 
student body by enabling each student to meet the challenges of a 
technologically based future. SMC offers a variety of educational programs to suit 
both the needs of the traditional college student and of the non-traditional 
working adult. The College offers Associates degrees in Arts, Business, Criminal 
Justice, Fine Arts, Religious Studies and Science; an evening Paralegal 
Certificate Program; 15 intercollegiate sports and dozens of student leadership 
opportunities. 
Spartanburg Methodist College, with a fully-accredited, rigorous academic 
program and a well-credentialed faculty and staff, has gone from a school that 
educates students for the textile industry to a College that educates students for 
a knowledge economy ... and we do it well. In August of 2013, SMC’s 
enrollment included 453 LIFE Scholars, representing an impressive 56% of the 
student body! 
Spartanburg Methodist College, founded in 1911, is proud of its heritage of 
providing “the opportunity to be your best and the inspiration to do great things.” 
SMC historian, Dr. Kathy Cann, estimates that this picture was taken in 
approximately 1920. She believes that the students are members of one of two 
literary “societies” on campus at that time. She was able to identify one student- 
second from left on the next to last row as Alfred Daley Wilbur. Dr. Cann shared 
that the college had oratorical contests and assumes that the winning club 
received the trophy which is proudly held by one of the students. 
