Wofford was founded with a bequest of $ 100, 000 from the Rev.

In 2010 the school founded a " branch campus " at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with classes starting in September 2011.

It was founded in 1934 by Dr. John W. Harris, a Wofford College professor.

It was founded by Harris Wofford, a student at the University of Chicago, later to become a Senator from Pennsylvania ( 1991-95 ) and President of Bryn Mawr College.

Since February 2007, Wofford has been national spokesperson for Experience Wave, a national campaign advancing state and federal policies to make it easier for mid-life and older adults to stay engaged in work and community life.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Milliken moved into active community service, he serving on the board of Wofford College and she on the board of Converse College.

Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including " The Duchess " Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones ( aka " Lady Bo "), Cornelia Redmond ( aka Cookie ), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career.

The Panthers have held their summer training camp at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina every year since the franchise began.

* Wofford, Susanne L. 1994.

** In a special election for the U. S. Senate, Harris Wofford scores an electoral upset against Dick Thornburgh, who had led him by 44 points in an August opinion poll.

William Thornton, Daniel Troutman and Daniel W. Wooliver were among the 1829 settlers, followed by William Blackwell, Elisha Nelson, Jerry Potts, Ephraim Bressie, Robert Leonard, Abner Wingfield, Lewis Dent, Wilson Craddock, Thomas Higginbotham, Jack Berry, Silas Hamby, Smith Wofford, Turkill McNeill, Dr. John Hyer, Samuel Hyer and David Lenox.

The town's original location is slightly east of Wofford Heights.

Wofford Heights is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in the southern Sierra Nevadas, in Kern County, California, United States.

Wofford Heights is located at.

The Wofford Heights post office opened in 1953.

The 2010 United States Census reported that Wofford Heights had a population of 2, 200.

The racial makeup of Wofford Heights was 2, 037 ( 92. 6 %) White, 6 ( 0. 3 %) African American, 41 ( 1. 9 %) Native American, 10 ( 0. 5 %) Asian, 1 ( 0. 0 %) Pacific Islander, 26 ( 1. 2 %) from other races, and 79 ( 3. 6 %) from two or more races.

) The area is now in Banks County near Wofford Shoals.

Based on his ideas for human perfection, Alcott founded Fruitlands, a transcendentalist experiment in community living.

He founded the community to which Mahavira ’ s parents belonged.

However, the problem is being addressed by community organizations and city government: Trees Atlanta, a non-profit organization founded in 1985, has planted and distributed over 75, 000 shade trees in the city, while Atlanta ’ s government has awarded $ 130, 000 in grants to neighborhood groups to plant trees.

It was indeed the site of an early Christian community, traditionally said to be founded by Peter.

Like the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholic Church through Apostolic succession traces its origins to the Christian community founded by Jesus Christ.

Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good.

In particular, the Metropolitan Community Church was founded specifically to serve the Christian LGBT community.

In Germany the small Christadelphian community founded by Albert Maier went underground from 1940 – 1945, and a leading brother, Albert Merz, was imprisoned as a conscientious objector and later executed.

Ohloh, a web service founded in 2004 and launched in 2006, monitors the development activity in the free software community, providing detailed metrics and quantitative analyses on the growth and popularity of projects and programming languages.

In 1975 Jonathan Fox founded Playback Theatre, a form of improvised community theatre which is often not comedic and replays stories as shared by members of the audience.

Karachi was founded as " Kolachi " by Sindhi and Baloch tribes from Balochistan and Makran, who established a small fishing community in the area.

The Sangha or community of ordained Buddhist bhikkhus ( similar to monks ) and original bhikkhunis ( similar to nuns ) was founded by Gautama Buddha during his lifetime over 2500 years ago.

In addition to the churches, these missionaries often also founded schools to serve the local community.

Two entities founded in 1962: the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California and the Findhorn Foundation — an intentional community which continues to operate the Findhorn Ecovillage near Findhorn, Moray, Scotland — played an instrumental role during the early growth period of the New Age movement.

The Brotherhood of the Phoenix was founded in the summer of 2004 by seven gay men from diverse traditions such as ceremonial magic, shamanism, and pre-Gardnerian witchcraft in order to create an ecumenical Neopagan tradition which serves the community of men who love men.

The town was founded by merchant George W. Wright, who donated of land in February 1844, when the community was also designated the county seat.

In 1575 he gave official status to the Congregation of the Oratory, a community of priests without vows, dedicated to prayer and preaching ( founded by Saint Filippo Neri ).

From the Acts of the Apostles () and the letter to the Philippians (), early Christians concluded that Paul had founded their community.

After Henry's death in 936, his widow Saint Mathilda founded a religious community for women (" Frauenstift ") on the castle hill, where daughters of the higher nobility were educated.

After considerable initial struggles with his first community at Subiaco, he eventually founded the monastery of Monte Cassino in 529, where he wrote his Rule near the end of his life.

Lackey founded a stealth computer security start-up with a small group of people well known in the computer security community and secured funding from Ron Conway and a well known venture capital fund.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA ) was founded by Damon Knight in 1965 as a non-profit organization to serve the community of professional science fiction authors, 24 years after his essay " Unite or Fie!

The Stockholm School of Economics was founded in 1909 on private initiative as a response to rapid industrialization and a growing need for well educated businessmen and company managers and has maintained close ties with the business community ever since.

Finding persecution of his Christian beliefs, Marinus hid on the peak of Mount Titano ( the highest of San Marino's seven hills ) and founded a small community following Christian beliefs.

Christiania is an independent community of almost 900 people founded in 1971 on the site of an abandoned military zone.