In Loving Memory: Stephen L. Jennings

The Limestone University community is saddened and heartbroken to learn of the recent death of Stephen Lee Jennings.

Stephen, a Limestone alumnus, was serving as the Coordinator of the Call Me MISTER Program for Limestone University. He was employed full-time with the Union County School District as a music teacher.

He was previously the Coordinator of Testing at Limestone.

Stephen, who was 31-years-old, passed away in an auto accident in Union County on the morning of April 22, 2022.

“It’s good to see someone in a position that looks like them to push them, motivate them, mentor them to be successful,” Jennings said in a published article in 2020 regarding the Call Me MISTER program. “It is my goal that when they leave Limestone that they walk away with the proper tools and resources needed to be effective.”

The overall goal of the Call Me MISTER program is to increase diversity in the classroom, but it is also the mission of the program to give minority students the hope of aspiring to be a teacher, and also to become leaders in their communities.

Stephen was on staff at Limestone from 2014 through 2021, beginning as an Assistant Testing Center Proctor. He became the Coordinator of the Testing Center in 2015. He added the role of Coordinator of Limestone’s Call me MISTER program in 2019. He started his duties as a music teacher at Sims Middle School in Union in August of 2021. Prior to coming to Limestone, Stephen served as a Student Success Coordinator at Spartanburg Methodist College.

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Limestone and also served as a Resident Assistant for over two years. He received a Master of Education in Educational Leadership from DePaul University and was working toward a Doctor of Education in Educational Practice and Innovation from the University of South Carolina.

Please keep Stephen’s wife, children, and other family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.

Limestone University will share funeral arrangements with the campus community once those are announced.

Once A Saint. Always A Saint.