Tramaine Brown, a Spanish and Humanities major, working with a student from Cleveland Elementary School.

Congratulations to Wofford College sophomore Tramaine Brown.  Tramaine is one of five recipients of a 2008 Jefferson Award for Public Service. The Jefferson Awards in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson Market have been sponsored by WYFF-TV since 1980.  The national program was founded in 1972 to honor the highest ideals and achievements in the field of public service. Recipients are selected annually to recognize outstanding dedication, sacrifice and accomplishment by individuals serving their communities. A previous winner from Wofford was Samie Clowney, Class of 2001, who is now director of multicultural affairs and leadership programs at the college. Brown’s award centered on his work with the mathematics academy at Cleveland Elementary School near the Wofford campus. He has recruited more than 50 Wofford faculty and students to be one-on-one tutors in this program, which he conceived in consultation with the administration and faculty at the elementary school.

Tramaine Brown has received other awards as well.  He is a Gates Millenium scholar.  A winner of one of the "Twenty-first Century Boarding Pass" scholarships, he studied in Guanajuato, Mexico, using that scholarship during Interim 2008.  He received the first Wofford College Diversity and Equality Award at the Martin Luther King Day Convocation on January 21, 2008.  Dr. Audrey Grant, Principal of Cleveland Elementary School, presented the award.