Born of strict Southern Baptist parents in Aiken, South Carolina, Father Serge Propst was raised in South Carolina, New Jersey and Tennessee. He attended the University of South Carolina, from which he graduated in 1960 with a G.S. Degree in Biology. He converted the Catholic faith in 1963 and served four years in the Navy as an electronic technician. He entered the Dominican Novitiate at Winona, Minnesota in 1967 for the Western Province, and after completing his studies, Fr. Propst was ordained in 1973.Currently he divides his time between preaching for the Western Province and teaching at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology.