Senior Circuit...Craig SudduthCraig Sudduth had to talk himself out of talking himself out of coming to Wofford.
The senior grew up just 12 miles away, in Duncan, S.C. Wofford seemed a natural fit except for one thing...it was too close.
“For a long time I refused to even think about coming to Wofford because it was so close,” says Sudduth. “But then the summer before my senior year of high school I attended the Milliken Summer Leadership Institute and it was partially housed on Wofford’s campus. I just fell in love with the campus and the atmosphere and knew that it was going to be perfect for me, and it has been.”
Sudduth has been actively involved, in many ways, with the Wofford community over the past four years.
“Since I’ve been at Wofford I’ve been involved with the Success Initiative, the English honor society Sigma Tau Delta, Relay for Life, and I’ve been working in the Office of Marketing and Communications for the past two years,” he says.
As part of the Success Initiative, he volunteered at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind his freshman year. To date, that has been one of his most memorable experiences.
“Some of my best memories are from that year,” he says. “Every week a group of students carpooled to SCSDB to save gas, and we had some of the best times in that car getting to know each other. Three of my closest friends are people that were in that car and that I met early in my Wofford career.”
Academically, his studies have taken him to England and back (he returned after a semester abroad in December).
“I’m an English major with a history minor and a concentration in 19th Century Studies,” he says. “I was going to be a history major but I got into historiography and was miserable. I decided that life was too short and so I switched down to being a minor.”
He has major plans for the future, though. Wherever that future may be.
“I hope that the future will keep me in Spartanburg,” he says. “I want to get a job teaching English in a private high school or middle school for a couple of years until I decide what I want to get my master’s degree in. Things are a little less concrete right now than I would like them to be, but I’m working on it.”