Herring Inducted Into Bachman Honor Society

2018 Apr 10

Benjamin Herring, of Hopkins, SC, was inducted into the Bachman Honor Society at the 2018 Newberry College Awards Convocation. The Bachman Honor Society was founded on March 15, 1962 by a group of faculty who were members of Phi Beta Kappa and others who were deeply comitted to fostering high standards of scholarship. The society is named for the Reverend John Bachman, churchman and scholar, and the main guiding force in founding Newberry College.

Each year the Society inducts new members from the top eight percent of the senior class. This year thirteen seniors have been named Bachman Honor Scholars. Along with their membership certificate, inductees into the Society will receive Scarlet and Gray honor cords to be worn at commencement, designating them as Bachman Honor Scholars.

Herring, an International Studies major with a minor in Spanish, served as President of the Newberry College Student Government Association for 2017-18. He is on the Newberry College Baseball team, Student Athletic Advisory Committee and a member of the Blue Key Honors Society. Herring is on the Dean's List, the SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll, and was inducted into Newberry College Who's Who during the Fall Honors Convocation.

Herring is a Muller Center Research Fellow and volunteered in Ecuador for one month conducting a research project on the business strategies of non-government organizations in that country. He has also volunteered with Harvest Hope Food Bank and the Spanish Academy.

Herring's long-term professional aspirations are to work in a financial sector of U.S. Foreign Affairs in Washington, D.C. and eventually pursue a graduate degree in International Business or Foreign Affairs.