Dr. Cynthia Roddey, Winthrop's First African-American Student, to Receive Honorary Doctorate, Deliver Commencement Address
April 26, 2024
April 26, 2024
ROCK HILL, South Carolina, April 26 -- Winthrop University issued the following news:
Sixty years after she first entered Winthrop College as its first African-American student, Dr. Cynthia Plair Roddey '67 will stand before the latest Winthrop University graduates to give them advice.
Roddey is the Commencement speaker for two undergraduate ceremonies on May 4 at Winthrop Coliseum. She will tell the Class of 2024 about lessons she has learned during decades of ser . . .
Sixty years after she first entered Winthrop College as its first African-American student, Dr. Cynthia Plair Roddey '67 will stand before the latest Winthrop University graduates to give them advice.
Roddey is the Commencement speaker for two undergraduate ceremonies on May 4 at Winthrop Coliseum. She will tell the Class of 2024 about lessons she has learned during decades of ser . . .