FALL 2008
Vol. 61, No. 4
www.clemson.edu/clemsonworld
Features
Education with heart
10
See why Habitat for Humanity has
named Clemson “No. 1” in the nation.
Best of both worlds 12
These students “cross a yearlong
bridge” to get to Clemson.
Open. For Business. 15
Learn how CU-ICAR is accelerating
the state’s knowledge-based economy.
Departments
President’s View
page 2
World View
page 4
Lifelong Connections
page 26
Alumni Council
page 28
From Atlanta to Clemson 20
Student Life
page 30
Meet two alumni who are raising the
University’s bar of excellence.
Classmates
page 32
Moon Pie 24
Discover the legendary influence of
Clemson’s longest serving First Lady.
This page: John Limroth works on a Volvo “big rig” for a project on stability control of heavy trucks.
Taps
page 48
PATRICK WRIGHT
Cover photo: Tom Kurfess with students in CU-ICAR Climate Chamber Lab, by Patrick Wright
Commitment
page 46
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President’s View
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Excelling on a
national level
lemson welcomed students and faculty back to a changed campus this
fall. Construction fences popped up over the summer as work began
on new projects like the Class of 1956 Academic Success Center near
Cooper Library and a new Life Sciences Building behind the Poole
Agricultural Center.
These physical changes have an impact on traffic patterns and our transit system
— the CAT bus system. They also affect parking — everyday parking and football
weekend parking. They have required a period of adjustment. Yet, at the same time, we
know that these growing pains are also a sign of progress.
A lot of hard work and planning over the last few years is now paying off in new and
improved facilities for Clemson. Along with student and faculty support, facilities still
top the list of priorities in our plans for the future.
‘Striking improvements’
We plan to give
our students a top-20
educational experience.
To do that, we must
re-invent the living/
learning environment
and make new facilities
a top priority.
Clemson’s first academic plan, known as the “Road Map,” has helped us achieve many
great things, including a No. 22 ranking among national public universities by U.S.News
& World Report.
In its 2009 guide “America’s Best Colleges,” U.S. News also put Clemson in second
place on a list of “Up and Coming” national universities. That list recognizes schools
that have “recently made striking improvements or innovations,” schools that “everyone
should be watching.”
What are these improvements? More Clemson students now graduate within four
years. Student retention from the freshman-to-sophomore year rose from 88 to 90
percent. Graduation rates are up from 75 to 78 percent.
Also a plus: Alumni support, as measured by alumni giving, rose from 27 to 28.5
percent, a hugely significant increase considering the fact that we add more than
3,800 new alumni to the list each year.
Alumni giving is considered a measure of how satisfied graduates are with their
college experience and with the value of the education they received. If alumni support
were the only factor U.S. News measured, Clemson would be a top-4 public university!
You really did your part to help prove to the world the value of a Clemson degree.
Thank you!
Re-inventing the living/learning environment
The next phase of our plan for the future will be rolled out during the coming year. It
is more of a comprehensive “university plan” than an “academic plan.” We feel we have
the people in place — the outstanding faculty, staff and students — to continue our
progress to becoming a top-20 public university.
We will move forward by continuing to emphasize the areas where we can truly
excel on a national level. We will align our administrative services to complement and
support the curriculum and research in these emphasis areas.
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Executive Editor
Dave Dryden
Art Director
Judy Morrison
Editor
Liz Newall
Picnic with the Barkers
Freshmen get a Clemson
family welcome from
President Jim and Marcia
Barker during a picnic on
the lawn of the President’s
Home.
And we plan to give our students a top-20 educational experience. To do that, we must
re-invent the living/learning environment on the Clemson campus and make new facilities a
top priority.
With the help of state investments in research infrastructure and private gifts, Clemson
has been able to improve our facilities for research and graduate education in areas related to
state economic development priorities. Development continues at the Clemson University
International Center for Automotive Research, the Advanced Materials Center and the
Restoration Institute.
Students and faculty tell us, however, that many of our basic academic facilities are simply
out of date. Even our “smart classrooms” are not as smart as we need them to be for this
generation of technologically savvy students.
Too many of our classrooms look just like they did when our current students’ grandparents
were here in the 1950s.
Lee Hall, where I studied architecture, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and is
in desperate need of renovation and expansion. Long Hall is 70 years old; and Godfrey was
completed in 1908, so it marks its centennial this year.
Many of the rest of our classroom buildings were built during the administration of R.C.
Edwards, who retired as president 30 years ago. These include Earle, Kinard, Martin, Daniel,
Rhodes, Jordan and Edwards halls.
Clemson has not had a state bond bill for basic educational facilities since 1999, before I
became president.
We announced last summer that we would make an investment of at least $225 million over
the next few years in new campus facilities and IT infrastructure. That work has begun, thanks
to a combination of private gifts, internal reallocations and institutional bonding capacity,
which affects tuition and fees.
As much as we appreciate the state’s support for research, we will ask our leaders also to
remember the needs of students and faculty for classrooms and teaching labs — our need
for state-of-the-art academic infrastructure.
This will be one of our priority messages as we meet with alumni, friends, supporters and
state leaders this year.
James F. Barker, FAIA
President
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World View
Clemson rises in the rankings
Clemson is the 22nd best national public
university in the country, according to the annual ranking
by U.S.News & World Report. In a new category Clemson
also received recognition as a school to watch.
Clemson is No. 2 among national public universities
in the “up and coming” category as “a college that has
recently made striking improvements or innovations —
a school everyone should be watching,” according to
the magazine.
Clemson’s drive for top-20 status is motivated by what top-tier
universities do for their state. Top-ranked universities give students a better education,
attract more resources, drive economic development and advance a better quality of
life for their state’s citizens.
Centered on innovation
‘Growth with Focus’
In its front-page feature — “Clemson
University Balances Growth with Focus”
— The Chronicle of Higher Education (July
25) praises the University as a public
institution that “nurtures strengths” while
avoiding “trendy new programs.” Or as
President Barker says, “It explains how
Clemson plans to be the best we can be
by concentrating on what we do best,
and by not trying to be all things to all
people.” For the complete article, go to
chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i46/46a00102.
htm.
A vital new center will soon complement a research and innovation complex at the Clemson
University Advanced Materials Center technology park in Anderson County. The complex, on Hwy. 187 near I-85, will enhance
opportunities for the county to take a leading
role in the state’s advanced materials industry.
The innovation center will serve as a hightech business incubator, providing space for
advanced materials-related startup companies
and companies exploring the viability of
locating new businesses or relocating existing
businesses.
The complex features exceptional research
laboratories and an intellectual powerhouse.
A team of scholars in chemistry, physics, photonics and other materials science and engineering disciplines is increasing the body of
knowledge and educating the graduate students who will become the next generation of leaders in their fields.
Duke Energy and AdvanceSC each contributed $1 million toward the center. The state provided $5 million through the S.C. Research
University Infrastructure Act. Innovate Anderson purchased the remaining property in the Advanced Materials Center for $1.3 million for
recruitment and development of advanced materials-related business.
Institute for park professionals
Computers tackle
world problems
A research, education and training institute for
park professionals at Clemson is being established in the name of George
B. Hartzog Jr. and his wife, Helen, in honor of Hartzog’s legendary work for
the profession and National Park Service. Hartzog passed away in July.
The George B. Jr. and Helen C. Hartzog Institute for Parks will
create, conduct and disseminate a broad range of programs for current
and prospective park professionals.
Clemson’s forestry and natural resources and parks, recreation and
tourism management departments have been associated with the National
Park Service since the establishment of the George B. Hartzog Jr.
Environmental Lecture and Awards Program in 1978. The park service’s
former leader, Fran B. Mainella, joined the Clemson faculty after retiring
as director in 2006, and the current director, Mary Bomar, gave the
University’s latest Hartzog Lecture.
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New home for academic success
Clemson has broken ground for the Class of 1956 Academic
Success Center behind the Cooper Library. The $13.7 million project includes construction of
the building, site preparation, furnishings and landscaping. The center now operates on the
third floor of the library.
The new building will provide additional space — 35,000 square feet and three floors
— and will allow new and enhanced services.
The center began in 2001 with several pilot programs to boost student learning and
academic success. In a few short years it earned the Tutoring Program of Excellence
Award, International Outstanding Supplemental Instruction Program Award (and
Outstanding SI Leader Award), the Frank L. Christ Outstanding Learning Center Award
and the Association for the Tutoring Profession Peer Tutor of the Year Award.
“The Class of 1956 was looking for a golden anniversary project that cut across all
disciplines represented in our class and at the same time … that would continue to give back
to the school for years to come,” says fundraising committee chairman John Blackmon. The
class raised $2.7 million to get the project started.
For more information, go to www.clemson.edu/asc. To support the center, go to www.
clemson.edu/alumni/projects/1956.html.
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lemson is tops in helping
to tackle climate change,
muscular dystrophy,
cancer and a host of
other world problems by
contributing idle computer
time to the World Community
Grid where researchers
around the world work on
life’s toughest issues.
The Clemson team
takes the unused power
of Windows computers
in instructional labs and
gives it to humanitarian
projects with a wide variety
of computational science
problems to solve. The grid is
run by IBM.
Depending on the day,
Clemson has at times been
first in the nation and as high
as fourth in the world for
contributions among World
Community Grid teams. Learn
more about the teams at www.
worldcommunitygrid.org.
’Real-time’ digital watershed
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized the
University as a Center of Excellence for Watershed Management. The
Clemson center is only the third in the Southeast and the first in the nation
that focuses on using remotely sensed monitoring data, enabling scientists
to collect and analyze information through this type of data network.
One of the major projects being developed by the Clemson center
is the cyber infrastructure-based digital watershed.
“Having real-time data to monitor environmental characteristics —
water quality, storm-water runoff, even tree growth — from any Internet
access point can improve watershed management,” says Gene Eidson,
director of Clemson University Restoration Institute’s ecology program.
For more on the Restoration Institute, go to www.clemson.edu/restoration/
ecology/.
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Top livinglearning
communities
Changing the landscape
Renewing teachers
During the summer, 19 public school educators from across the state hiked
through Upstate forestland. Their experience is helping shape a program expected
to impact thousands of their education colleagues over the next decade.
They were participants in the inaugural seminar of the S.C. Teacher Renewal Center,
a partnership initiative of the University and the S.C. Department of Education. In March,
The Cliffs Communities and the company’s founder and CEO Jim Anthony announced
a gift of more than 350 acres of prime Upstate forestland and $10 million cash for
development of the S.C. Teacher Renewal Center. The program is coordinated through
Clemson’s Youth Learning Institute.
Clemson business, a world player
Clemson’s College of Business and Behavioral Science has
joined an exclusive community of business schools and executive education
centers worldwide that will help business students broaden global horizons and
increase networking opportunities and study experiences abroad.
The college’s business programs received membership in the European
Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) in Brussels, Belgium. This
is the initial step in seeking European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS)
accreditation from EFMD.
“Clemson has already developed an excellent global reputation,” says Claude
Lilly, dean of the college. “Joining EFMD and seeking EQUIS accreditation is
another step in growing that recognition.”
Paws light up printable electronics
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lemson’s glowing work in the field of printable
electronics made the cover of the Journal of Materials
Chemistry (September 15) and is included in several
other leading publications in the field.
“Colloids light the way to printable electronics”
highlights the growing collaborative effort of Clemson’s
Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering
Technologies (COMSET) and Sonoco Institute of Packaging
Design and Graphics. Researchers are working to create
low-cost, high-volume colored electronic products.
The Clemson team, led by Stephen Foulger, has
developed color and light-emitting colloidal inks, using
different ratios of the particles to make organic lightemitting devices in a wide range of colors.
Foulger says the particles could be used to make colored
electronic displays for car dashboards, for example, and
that this combination of low-cost starting materials and
high-volume printing will mean cheaper products. For more
on this research and COMSET, go to comset.clemson.edu.
Woody energy
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very year, four million tons of green energy go unused in the Upstate. Now, government and private energy
leaders, along with Clemson University Extension forestry researchers, have formed the Western Piedmont
Woody Biomass Marketing Committee to help communities in 11 Upstate counties find ways to use woody
biomass as fuel.
The USDA describes woody biomass as small diameter trees and underbrush, the residues of the logging and
forest products industries and urban wood waste. All make excellent biomass fuels and can be used in a wide variety
of biomass technologies.
Potential customers are community colleges, prisons, other public facilities and additional medium-scale energy
users because they have the capacity to store the wood chips. And, their heating and cooling systems incorporate
the appropriate emissions
controls to protect air quality. For more information, contact George Kessler at
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(864) 656-4836 or gkssler@clemson.edu.
Sociology student Nikki Dodd earned an international
award — Rachel Tanur Award in Visual Sociology — during her work to help
establish Landscapes for Learning-Dominica.
Dodd’s winning entries centered on two problems that children in some
countries face at a relatively young age: food insecurity and the threat of AIDS.
She developed her project through the Creative Inquiry course PeoplePlants-Environment Linkages and was supported by Clemson’s Creative Inquiry
program along with the University’s Service Alliance-International Service
Learning Initiative at the Archbold Tropical Research and Education Center,
Dominica, West Indies.
World-class rowers
Five Clemson rowers
and their coach Richard
Ruggieri participated in
the World Rowing Under
23 Championships in
Brandenburg, Germany,
during the summer. Clemson
rower Suzanne Van Fleet
competed with the U.S.
Women’s 8+ crew and
brought home the gold.
The Women’s 4- crew,
all Clemson rowers and
coached by Ruggieri, also
did great, finishing fourth
in the world.
Student Nikki Dodd with
schoolchildren in Grand Fond,
Dominica
Clemson rowers Michelle Nance,
Liz Robb, Hillary Cumbest, Jessica
Leidecker, Suzanne Van Fleet and
coach Richard Ruggieri.
Concrete Canoe in national top 10
The Clemson Concrete Canoe team paddled into seventh place
at this year’s 21st annual American Society of Civil Engineers’
Concrete Canoe Competition in Montreal, Canada.
The University’s
living-learning
communities are
among the best in the
nation according to
the National Study
of Living-Learning
Programs.
Living-learning
communities are
programs in which
students with common
academic interests
live together in the
same residence hall
space and have staff,
programming and
curricular resources
dedicated specifically
to them. Clemson
housing has more
than 1,200 students
participating in
12 living-learning
communities across
campus.
“Clemson’s
programs offer one of
the finest examples
of what happens
when … faculty,
staff and students all
take ownership in
their programs and
work collaboratively
toward creating
optimal learning
environments,” says
Karen Inkelas of the
University of Maryland,
principal investigator of
the study.
For more on
Clemson’s livinglearning programs, go
to www.clemson.edu/
housing/llc or contact
Kathy Hobgood at
(864) 656-1151 or
kbhob@clemson.edu.
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Nano shock absorbers
As electronic devices get smaller and more complex, some
get more fragile — and easy to drop — like cell phones.
A team of Clemson researchers, led by physics professor Apparao Rao, has
invented a way to make beds of tiny, shock-absorbing carbon springs that may be
used to protect delicate objects from damaging impacts. With collaborators at the
University of California at San Diego, the team has shown that layers of these
tiny springs called coiled carbon nanotubes, each a thousand times smaller than
a human hair, can act as extremely resilient shock absorbers.
The group also envisions coiled nanotubes in soldiers’ body armor, car bumpers
and even as cushioning elements in shoe soles. The team’s method produces coiled
nanotubes quickly in high yield, and it can be readily scaled up to industrial levels.
For more information, go to www.clemson.edu/~arao.
College planning for parents
Families today need a tool to help
them prepare their children for a college education,
to guide them through understanding the process of
financial aid and to make the overwhelming process
of planning for college less intimidating.
The Alliance for Research on Higher Education
has gathered more than 14 South Carolina
organizations and 21 authors to create Planning for
College: A Comprehensive Guide for SC Families, a
freely available publication that offers financial
aid information, admissions expertise and career
planning options. The guide can be downloaded at www.strom.
clemson.edu/familyguide. For more information,
contact Catherine Watt at cwatt@clemson.edu or call
(864) 656-0208.
Top-10 urban planning program
Clemson’s city and regional planning
program is among the best in the nation among
master’s-granting institutions according to The
Planetizen Guide to Graduate Urban Planning
Programs.
It’s offered through the planning and landscape
architecture department. The professional
master’s degree program emphasizes sustainable
land development while recognizing the balance
of physical, economic, financial, social and
policy dimensions of planning. Students pursue
specializations in areas such as development planning,
environmental and land-use planning, urban design
and transportation planning.
Clemson also has one of best graduate programs
in historic preservation, according to Planetizen. For
more on these programs, go to www.grad.clemson.edu/
programs/CRP/index.php and www.grad.clemson.edu/
programs/HistPres/index.php.
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Have you graduated from
the usual stadium fare?
Meet the two
newest residents
of Death Valley!
Magnificent miniature
W
hen the MINImuseum of Richard
McMahan — a showcase for more than
1,100 pieces of the renowned artist’s
miniature art — opened at Piccolo Spoleto
earlier this year, students from the Clemson
Architecture Center in Charleston literally
set the stage.
The exhibition, curated by the Halsey Institute
of Contemporary Art, opened at the Addlestone
Library at the College of Charleston.
Under the guidance of professors Robert
Miller (center director) and David Pastre, students
researched the history of museums, museum
display and miniature art. They created a
comprehensive inventory of the artist’s works,
developed strategies for showing each, and
designed and built an indoor MINImuseum.
To get an idea of the scope of their project and the wonderful art they displayed, go to www.cofc.
edu/halseygallery/minimuseum/index.html.
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Happiest students
Clemson has the happiest students and is the “top jock” school (popularity of intercollegiate and intramural
sports) in the nation according to The Princeton Review. The No. 1 rankings are in the 2009 edition of Best 368
Colleges.
For more information, go to www.princetonreview.com.
Clemson, great place to work
The Chronicle of Higher Education recognizes Clemson as a great place to work. “Great Colleges to Work For”
includes Clemson in the “Collaborative Governance” category for proactive involvement of faculty in decisions
related to academic programs.
Model program for seniors
Clemson University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) has won the Association for Continuing Higher
Education’s Older Adult Model Program award for 2008. OLLI is primarily geared toward retirees who teach and
learn from instructors as well as one another. The current catalog offers 83 courses in the program. For more
information, go to www.clemson.edu/OLLI, call (864) 656-6912 or email OLLI@clemson.edu.
‘Best Places to Play’
Golf Digest magazine gave the University’s John E. Walker Sr. Golf Course a ranking of 4.5 out of 5 stars in its
2008-2009 edition of Best Places to Play. The 18-hole championship Walker Course on the banks of Hartwell
Lake is part of the Clemson University Conference Center and Inn. For more information, go to www.clemson.
edu/madren/toc/walker or call (864) 656-0236.
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Education with
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Unique partnerships not only help get the job done, they also help change people’s perceptions of how they can
make a difference, now and in the future.
• The annual Homecoming build brings together the Clemson community to put the “home” in the campus
celebration. Their fall construction has created homeownership, and the pride and responsibility that go along
with it, for 16 families.
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• Each spring the chapter hosts students from other colleges and universities to work
on a project. Empowered participants take ideas back to their own campuses and
communities.
• In 2001, Clemson students completed the nation’s first Blitz Build, engaging
participants from across the country to construct five Habit Houses in record time
and inspiring other universities to activate their own chapters.
• In 2003, the chapter built the first Youth United home in partnership with D.W.
Daniel High School. And the next year, they helped with the Easley High Senior Class
Habitat build.
• In 2004, a grant from Thrivent Financial made possible the construction of three
of the student houses. The grant was for Leadership Development, in particular
allowing Clemson students to develop leadership in S.C. high school youth.
• As that house was being built, those working with the high schoolers raised enough
money to build three houses in Tanzania. Clemson students working on the project,
joined by others, traveled to Tanzania in 2006 to build two houses. They returned in
2007 to build another one.
• The Clemson chapter — through the construction science and management
department — partners with YouthBuild, a local building program for high school
students encouraged to complete their GED and develop employable skills. Since the
fall of 2006, YouthBuild trainees have worked on five homes.
• In 2007, the chapter built the first student-led Martin Luther King, Jr. Dream House
as part of the University’s MLK Day of Service celebration.
PATRICK WRIGHT
Chapter members plan all year for this and several other builds. They study design concepts, develop and choose
blueprints, solicit funds and building materials. They collaborate with city and county officials, survey sites and
draw landscaping plans. They conduct education programs for future and current Habitat families. They create work
schedules and organize volunteers.
And in the Habitat process, they apply what they’re learning in the classroom to what they can do in the
community.
“Clemson students are doers,” says Chris Heavner, Lutheran campus minister and chapter adviser extraordinaire.
“Once they are passionate about a worthwhile cause, they do what it takes to accomplish their goals.”
Since the Habitat chapter formed in 1994, students and volunteers have erected 27 houses — 24 for families in
the surrounding communities and three during Maymester trips to Africa.
Heavner is quick to point out that “doers” includes the vital Pickens County Habitat for Humanity affiliate and a
wealth of Clemson faculty who have seen how the student chapter can teach students and serve the community at
the same time.
CRAIG MAHAFFEY
Clemson ‘doers’
JEFF POTTER
PATRICK WRIGHT
Education that creates
”doers” as well as
“thinkers” deepens
the Clemson degree.
every Clemson Homecoming, you see them on Bowman Field. In the midst of
fantastic orange and purple scenes with giant Tigers tromping on opposing mascots
— students in hard hats and safety goggles work on a different type of display. They
hammer their own tribute to the Clemson spirit — a sturdy house for a local family
who needs it.
These students are from the University’s Habitat for Humanity Chapter, and the
solid structure you see rising from footings during Homecoming week is just the tip of
their work. And their accomplishments.
No wonder Habitat for Humanity International recently named Clemson’s chapter
as the national Campus Chapter of the Year.
• Last year, the chapter sponsored a design contest with Clemson’s Emerging Green
Builders as a service-learning project for architecture, landscape architecture, and
construction science and management students. As a result, they’ve just completed
what will be — upon certification — the first LEED Habitat House in the state.
Engaged learning
“Most college students recognize the terrific advantage of higher education for their
own good,” says Heavner. “At Clemson, they know, or soon come to realize, they have
a responsibility to apply what they’re learning for a greater good. Service organizations
such as Habitat for Humanity give them the opportunity.”
The city of Clemson — working with the Pickens County Habitat for Humanity
— supports student efforts, both in volunteers and in financial assistance. Not only is
it the right thing to do, it makes good business sense. Every new Habitat House process
upgrades the community, puts dollars back into the county and drastically improves the
new homeowners’ quality of life.
Provost Dori Helms says, “Teaming intellectual development with economic
development — learning with doing — shapes Clemson students into global citizens.
“Our campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity shows what amazing results students
can accomplish when faculty and staff are their mentors and communities are their
classrooms. This is engaged learning at its best.” c
For more on Clemson’s Habitat for Humanity chapter, go to www.clemson.
edu/~habitat. For its Pickens County affiliate, go to www.pickenshabitat.org/home.htm.
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Best of
both
worlds
by Liz Newall
There’s more than one way to earn a Clemson degree.
C
lemson has a vital category of students that numbers
well over 1,000. In fact, one in four new students this year
will join their ranks. You, too, may have counted yourself
among them when you were on campus.
They’re transfer Tigers.
Clemson transfer students come from
community colleges to Ivy League
universities, from within the state to
across the country. And regardless
of their diverse majors or where they
started, they all want their undergraduate
degree to bear Clemson’s bright seal.
Bridge to Clemson
One of the newest transfer programs is
called the Bridge to Clemson, the first of
its kind in South Carolina.
As demand for a Clemson education goes
up, so do the SAT scores and academic
records of incoming freshmen. Keen
competition has resulted in denying
or delaying admission for a number of
would-be freshmen who, overall, have
what it takes to succeed at Clemson.
As a result, Clemson and Tri-County
Technical College in nearby Pendleton
have formed a partnership to increase
access to a Clemson education.
The program is by invitation only to
students who’ve applied to Clemson.
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Approximately 85 percent are from South
Carolina.
“The driving force of the program is
accessibility,” says Sue Whorton, Bridge
to Clemson director. We’re committed
to serving the students in the state and
making a Clemson education possible
to more individuals who have a strong
potential for success. And we want
to make their transfer to Clemson
seamless.”
The program began in 2006 with 231
students. This year, it has around 310
students, and plans are to accommodate
450 by next academic year.
Twice the experience
Bridge freshmen complete core classes
for their majors — 30 hours — at
Tri-County. Clemson advisers guide
their matriculation while Clemson and
Tri-County faculty collaborate on course
content. Student affairs specialists from
both schools make sure students have
access to the opportunities and services
their other students do.
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For example, at Clemson, Bridge students
can use the libraries and Michelin®
Career Center, join Tiger Band, get
football tickets, purchase meal tickets,
work out at Fike Recreation Center, go to
Redfern Health Center and more.
But the real advantage is the academic
attention they receive — through a close
collaboration between the two schools.
“We at Tri-County are delighted with
the partnership we have formed with
Clemson to offer the Bridge program to
students,” says academic liaison Robin
McFall, who also holds two Clemson
degrees. “We provide the students a
quality, first-year experience so that they
are fully prepared to enter their chosen
program of study at Clemson.”
Crossing over
Bridge students develop a deep sense of
camaraderie that carries on to Clemson.
It comes from living together in a location
convenient to both campuses, sharing
classes and outside curricular events,
and, of course, socializing.
Secondary education-English major
Caitlin Bellinger not only enjoyed her
2006-07 Bridge year, she helped make
it richer for her classmates by working
with the Bridge Student Association for
special events. In fact, she remained an
ambassador for the program after she
entered Clemson.
As for ease of transition, history major
Wallace Cobbs, also a 2006-07 Bridge
student, says, “It’s the best way to
prepare for and experience Clemson
without being officially enrolled. When I
did enter Clemson, I felt like it was my
second year instead of being new on
campus.”
Positive experiences like these not
only have empowered Bridge students,
they’ve convinced Bridge parents as well.
“At first, some parents were disappointed
that their son or daughter wasn’t starting
out as a Clemson freshman,” says
Whorton. “But the Bridge to Clemson
program has been such a success that
I now frequently hear — ‘It’s the best
thing that could have happened.’”
Clemson’s Class of 1963 members have
been so impressed with the program
that they’ve selected it as their Golden
Anniversary class project. These alumni
are working to provide $2.5 million
by 2013 to enhance and permanently
support the Bridge program and to
designate it with their class name.
As one 1963 alumnus says of the class
project, “No one will see a Class of 1963
plaque when they visit campus. Instead,
there will be thousands of students
who will always know that ‘I am a Tiger’
because of the help received from our
class.”
For more information about the Bridge to
Clemson program, go to www.clemson.
edu/prospectivestudents/undergraduate/
bridge or contact Sue Whorton at (864)
656-6256 or whorton@clemson.edu. To
support the program, go to www.clemson.
edu/isupportcu or call (864) 656-2121.c
Mission Transition
Whether students come to Clemson “across the bridge” or through traditional trans-
fer situations, the University recognizes their unique place in the Clemson family.
At the beginning of the new school year, the University provides “Clemson
Connect,” a series of programs for new students, including “One Clemson: Yours,
Mine and Ours,” an interactive program introducing Clemson’s core values to freshmen and transfer students.
Clemson also holds Mission Transition, an orientation just for transfer students, on academic resources, networking, and the University’s history and traditions.
TigerWire is a new online network that helps students make connections with
each other and with their campus. One of its online communities is exclusively for
sophomores and transfer students.
Transfer Council, a part of Student Government, is made of seasoned students — who came to the University as transfer students — with a goal to address the specific needs of Clemson transfer students throughout the year.
To learn more about services for transfer students, go to www.clemson.
edu/studentaffairs/nssp. For admission information, go to www.clemson.edu/
prospectivestudents/transfer.
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Open.
For Business.
CU-ICAR is accelerating
the state’s knowledgebased economy.
by Sandy Woodward
4-Wheel Chassis Dyno Lab
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What was a dream is now a thriving reality. What was a vision is now a
one-of-a-kind research campus where Clemson University and its partners
are delivering on its vision to be the premier automotive and motorsports
research and education facility in the world.
Public and private investment totals more than $213 million.
Four endowed chairs, experts in their academic areas, lead
a unique systems-integration-focused graduate program in
automotive engineering with more than 50 students from the
United States and around the world pursuing master’s and
doctoral degrees.
Not bad for five years.
When ground was broken for the Clemson University
International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR)
campus in November 2003, the center consisted of an idea, a
group of committed individuals and 250 acres of South Carolina
red clay.
Tom Kurfess, BMW Endowed Chair
in Manufacturing and director of
the Campbell Center
Today the first phase of CU-ICAR, Technology Neighborhood
One, is nearing completion with the recent occupancy of the
Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center, the
academic anchor of the campus.
OKUMA machine
Graduate students at work in the
Campbell Center
Campbell Center lobby
Facilities for visiting professors
and industry specialists
Photo by Rob Belknap
Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center
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From red to green
• Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center
is a 90,000-square-foot research and education facility
that features state-of-the-art industrial-scale research
laboratories and testing equipment valued at more than
$10 million.
• BMW Information Technology Research Center houses
approximately 150 BMW employees.
Full Vehicle CMM Lab
• Collaboration 3 houses the Timken Co. and the Clemson University
Computational Center for Mobility Systems.
The first of three buildings developed by The Furman Co. for lease
by CU-ICAR partners, Collaboration 3 set the CU-ICAR environmental
sensitivity standard by garnering the U.S. Green Building Council Goldlevel certification for core and shell construction. It’s the first LEED
Gold certification in the city of Greenville, first LEED-certified building
at CU-ICAR and the second LEED certification in Greenville County.
Road Simulator/Climate Chamber Lab
• CU-ICAR Partnership Office — home to the CU-ICAR executive,
marketing and business functions — also houses the Carolina First
Gallery, the St. Francis VRUM Fitness Center for all CU-ICAR campus
residents, offices of SAE International and other partners.
Upping the state’s economy
Investment in CU-ICAR by public and private partners targets two critical
components to the knowledge economy that will move South Carolina
forward: research and economic development.
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New knowledge generated by faculty and student researchers is
applied to the needs of new and emerging industries, improving
products and processes, adding jobs and benefiting society.
CU-ICAR’s research emphasis is systems integration focusing on the
technical interaction of the various complex systems that make up today’s
automobile.
Added value
Over the past year, the following have added value to CU-ICAR’s research
and economic development initiatives.
Engine Dyno Lab
New partners:
• Mazda
• INTEC US software
• Ozen Engineering and its software consortium partners, CADFEM GMbH of Munich, Germany, and EnginSoft, SpA, of Trento, Italy
AT&T Auditorium
New research equipment:
• $1.5 million investment by Okuma America Corp. and Morris South provided state-of-the-art machine tool equipment and training for faculty and students to the impressive facilities of the Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center.
New faculty and students:
• Paul Venhovens, a leader in the field of automotive systems integration, is the BMW Endowed Chair in Systems Integration.
• Rob Prucka complements the design and development faculty team with his focus on engine management.
• Thirty new students recruited to the program from the United States and around the world bring the current enrollment to 56. c
Metrology Lab
For more information, visit the newly updated Web site at www.cuicar.com.
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From Atlanta
to Clemson:
Making a
Difference
Thomas F. Chapman ’65 and
Photography by Patrick Wright
C. Tycho Howle ’71 have a lot in
common. Both are graduates of
Clemson University as well as the
Harvard Business School; both
became successful international
business leaders; both live and
thrive in Atlanta; and both
enjoy making a difference in the
lives of others through generous
philanthropic initiatives.
Vision for Philanthropy: C. Tycho Howle ’71, M ’73 and family
Mission Leadership: Thomas F. Chapman ’65
F
or a long time, Tom Chapman felt like a lot
of college graduates. After graduating from
Clemson, he played professional baseball for
the Philadelphia Phillies, served his country in
Vietnam and went on to reach his professional pinnacle as
chairman and CEO of Equifax Inc. While he was blessed
by his total Clemson experience, he no longer felt a close
relationship with his university.
Upon learning of Chapman’s plans to retire from Equifax in
December 2005, Clemson President Jim Barker and others visited
him in Atlanta to determine his interest in becoming reengaged
with Clemson and in helping to shape the lives of its students
and further the goals of the University. Throughout almost a
year of reintroductions, Chapman met with several University
administrators, among them, Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips,
Provost Dori Helms, College of Business and Behavioral Science
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Dean Claude Lilly and baseball coach Jack Leggett. He also joined
the Clemson University Foundation board.
Chapman, President Barker and the development team spent a
great deal of time exploring “One Clemson” and the objective to
reach “top-20” status. Through these educational sessions, Chapman
eventually focused on two areas he felt his contribution could best
impact: athletics (specifically baseball) and the creation of a unique
leadership scholarship program in the College of Business and
Behavioral Science resulting in a total gift to Clemson of $2 million.
The first $1 million gift is to the Clemson baseball program
and will create the Thomas F. Chapman Grandstand, in honor
of his past contribution as a two-time All-ACC pitcher. With
this gift, 1,000 new seats will be constructed, with 500 of them
being designated for students only. “Building new seats specifically
for students while significantly enhancing the baseball facility were
important facets of this gift,” says Chapman.
As a former student athlete, Chapman received an IPTAY
scholarship that funded his Clemson education. “I believe in
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These alumni also agreed to serve on
a committee that “brings Clemson
closer to Atlanta,” helping alumni
connect or reconnect with Clemson.
Together, they worked behind the
scenes to ensure that the state of
Georgia has a Clemson license
tag available to drivers. And they
individually committed significant
gifts that will forever change the
educational experience at Clemson.
T
ycho Howle has always had a penchant for
rising to the top. The first in his family of
eight to go to college, he has long believed in
a quality education. Today, this belief informs
his philanthropic decisions, including his recent gift of
$2.5 million to the University.
After graduating from Clemson with a degree in physics,
Howle attained a master’s degree in systems engineering. He then
attended the Harvard Business School, where he earned an MBA.
Next Howle worked for a major management consulting firm.
After early successes, he began to give back to the University,
which he credits with teaching him “how to be an adult.” He gave
some of his company’s stock each year to Clemson and to the
Harvard Business School.
“Many who are leaders in their fields can directly attribute
their success to their college experiences. It’s their responsibility to
invest in the future generations of graduates,” Howle says.
Howle’s relationship with Clemson has continued far beyond
his college degrees. He has served on the board of directors
and as chairman of the finance committee of the Clemson
University Foundation. He was inducted into the Thomas
Green Clemson Academy of Engineers and Scientists last year
for outstanding career success, contributions to community and
notable contributions to engineering and science. A number of
other Clemson entities have benefited from his generosity: the
Class of 1956 Endowment, Call Me MISTER®, the Clemson
Outdoor Lab, the Nursing Alumni Endowed Scholarship and
the ECE Industrial Graduate Fellowships, among others.
In 2004, Howle wanted to help increase young alumni giving
to the University. The Howle family established a $250,000
program that matched young alumni gifts dollar-for-dollar.
“We really wanted to get these young alumni into the habit of
giving back,” he says. “If you begin early after graduation, the
tendency to continue giving is greater.”
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Thomas F. Chapman
C. Tycho Howle
paying back what is given to you. My scholarship provided me an
outstanding college experience and a future career in professional
baseball upon graduation, as well as a quality education,” he says.
Chapman’s $1 million gift to the College of Business and
Behavioral Science has established a new initiative near and
dear to Chapman’s heart: leadership. The Thomas F. Chapman
Leadership Scholars Program will identify students who show
leadership potential and will nurture these qualities in them
throughout their Clemson career. The program is, in part, based
upon a leadership theme developed by Chapman that uses the
analogy of The Wizard of Oz characters — the scarecrow, lion and
tin man — to communicate the traits of leadership. “Good leaders
require reasonable intellect, an abundance of courage and equal
portions of heart,” says Chapman.
Chapman Leadership Scholars will receive incrementally
increasing scholarship dollars as they advance each year at Clemson
and clearly exhibit their leadership potential. The first year, in
which students will receive $1,000, will focus on developing intellect
and defining leadership capabilities. In the second year, students
will receive $2,000 and learn about courage — the ethics, behavior
and styles of leaders. During the third year, scholars will receive
$3,000 and focus on heart by leading efforts to serve others in their
communities. Chapman Leadership Scholars will benefit from
$6,000 over a three-year period while preparing themselves to be
better leaders in their future endeavors.
Beginning in March 2009, the Chapman Leadership Scholars
Program will provide approximately 170 Clemson students the
opportunity to be enlightened in the skills of leadership and
better enabled to make a difference in our world. It’s anticipated
that Chapman’s gift will provide Clemson students this specialopportunity program through the 2025 school year.
Chapman’s philanthropic works are not limited to higher
education. After his beloved wife, Jane, passed away from cancer,
Chapman felt a need to give back, to “show my love for the people
who cared for and loved my wife and family through her long battle.”
Together, Chapman and Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta outlined
several ways he could be involved in improving the patient care
experience for other cancer patients.
With his support, a new nurses lounge was constructed, a nurses
education initiative was developed to encourage oncology nurses to
attain greater levels of skill and certification, and a new position was
created: the patient navigator, whose sole purpose is to do anything
to better care for the patient and his/her family during the treatment
phase. Today, hundreds of cancer patients have been assisted and
oncology nursing care at Piedmont Hospital has been enhanced.
Additionally, Chapman established an Oncology Action Fund,
which provides physicians and staff resources for priorities with the
greatest impact. Since establishing this fund, many other grateful
patients have also added to this fund through their own gifts.
Chapman is committed more than ever to his alma mater and
feels he truly is a member of the Clemson family. He says, “President
Jim Barker and his team are doing an exceptional job in leading
Clemson to unprecedented heights! I am very proud of my Clemson
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Howle describes himself as a “serial entrepreneur,” having now
started more than a half dozen businesses. His goal throughout
his career has been to combine business success with values-based
leadership. He founded one of the Southeast’s most successful IT
companies and several spinoffs in the 1980s, then in 2001 started
nuBridges LLC, a leading provider of software and managed
services that protect sensitive data and enable digital information
exchange. Under Howle’s leadership, nuBridges has become an
international leader in computing solutions. Howle recently
announced Paul Olsen as president and CEO of nuBridges LLC,
turning over the daily operations so he could dedicate more time to
his philanthropic, community and industry interests.
Determined not to internalize their successes and instead to
share them with others, the Howle family formed the C. Tycho
and Marie Howle Foundation, which has made more than 450
grants to support education, health care, the homeless and the
arts. The Howle family sets aside a portion of their income for the
foundation each year, enabling the family to aggressively distribute
it to people and organizations that need it the most.
“We helped to start the Atlanta Girls’ School and are strong
supporters of both Kipp Schools and Teach for America. Some
years ago, we established a matching program for the Atlanta
Union Mission (an organization that helps the homeless and
people suffering from addiction),” says Howle.
Most recently, the Howle family invested in Clemson
University to establish two endowed chairs that will benefit
computing research. The first chair is the hf (Howle family)
Flagship Director of the School of Computing, and the second
is the hf Flagship Chair in Human Centered Computing within
the electrical and computer engineering department.
These two chairs will recruit the best researchers and scholars
to Clemson to lead the computer technology programs that will
enhance the educational, research and learning experiences for
students. “I wanted to make sure we take our strong computing and
technology programs and make them great,” says Howle. “This area
is one in which Clemson is now uniquely qualified to excel and
perhaps lead the nation.”
Howle is an ardent supporter of President Barker’s vision for
Clemson to be a top-20 school. “We wanted to contribute to this
vital area so that computer technology could be introduced or
expanded in all disciplines of the University. The stronger, more
successful, more capable our students are, the more impact they
will have upon the region, the country, the world,” says Howle.
Howle reflects upon his time at Clemson as being
transformational, teaching him the values of hard work, good
citizenship, character and integrity — those that have provided
the backbone for his business success. He also made some lifelong
friends while here.
“We just got back from a trip to Telluride with two of my college
roommates,” says Howle. “The relationships I formed while at
Clemson are some of the most important ones in my life.” c
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Cemetery Chronicles
Moon Pie
Louise Odom Edwards
by Beth Jarrard with Sandi Reid Boney and Bill Reid (Edwards grandchildren)
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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
1916-2008
ouise Odom, from Red Springs, N.C., met a Clemson gentleman
named Robert Cook “R.C.” Edwards in 1934 when he moved to
her hometown to accept a position with a textile plant. They were
married May 30, 1935.
Twenty-one years later, in 1956, the Edwards family moved to
Clemson when R.C. became Clemson’s first vice president for
development. When he was later named the eighth president of
Clemson College in 1959, Louise stood by his side and began her
legendary stint as Clemson’s longest serving First Lady.
The Edwards served the University during a time of phenomenal
growth and monumental events that shaped the future of the
institution, such as the graduation of Clemson’s first female
students and the enrollment of its first black students.
A large part of what made Louise Edwards so special to Clemson
was her relationship with the students. Each week she could be
found cooking for or entertaining some organization on campus
or in the community. Freshmen not yet privy to her welcoming
and unaffected manner were often ordered to learn about her
cordiality “the hard way.” They would be sent at all hours to the
front door of the President’s Home with the dire hope of procuring
some mandatory initiation item from the First Lady.
One such time a young man asked her if he could have her
autograph. She gladly took his pen, while asking, “How do
you want me to sign this: ‘Mrs. R.C. Edwards’ or just ‘Louise
Edwards?’”
The student, looking sheepishly at his feet replied, “Neither one,
ma’am.” And then, mustering that special Tiger courage, he
whispered, “Can you please just sign it ‘Moon Pie’?”
Giggling as she autographed the paper with a flourish, she asked
the boy, “Did you think I didn’t know that y’all call me that? Of
course I knew that!”
She was affectionately known as “Moon Pie” by students and
alumni, a reference to the popular Southern snack cake said to be
the perfect complement to “RC Cola” and thus to R.C. Edwards.
Louise Edwards was a strong presence in the community as well as
on campus. She was a longtime member of the Clemson United
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Methodist Church, the Clemson Garden Club and the Clemson
University Woman’s Club.
She was a devoted mother to her children, Nancy (Mrs. William
J. Reid Jr.) and Bob (Robert Cook Edwards Jr., deceased). As
grandchildren and great-grandchildren were added to the family,
her love was multiplied. Nine members of the Edwards family
have Clemson degrees, and another will be added next spring. Her
family and the Clemson family were blessed for four generations
with her gentle and giving spirit.
After President Edwards’ retirement in 1979, they moved to their
home on Wyatt Ave. and continued to participate in University
activities and to support student athletes in competition. When
they were no longer able to attend games, they never missed
watching the Tigers on TV.
Citing “unselfish service to Clemson and outstanding
contributions to student life,” Tiger Brotherhood honored her as
Mother of the Year in 1978.
Her 80th birthday in 1996 turned out to be a University,
community, county and even state celebration including the
Clemson University Woman’s Club, IPTAY, the city of Clemson,
the Pickens County legislative delegation, and then-S.C. Gov.
David Beasley and the General Assembly.
Louise “Moon Pie” Edwards passed away during the summer of
2008. But her memory is close by, as she rests on Cemetery Hill
with other great individuals who’ve helped define the Clemson
family. c
For more “Cemetery Chronicles,” visit the Web at www.clemson.edu/
clemsonworld/chronicles/.
To support its preservation and research, you can make a gift through
the enclosed envelope and designate it for the “Cemetery Hill
Preservation Fund.”
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Lifelong Connections
Scroll of Honor
Memorial
CBBS in NY
With Your Alumni Association
football stadium. The memorial
is made possible by a $475,000
commitment from the Class of
1958, the Clemson Corps, the
Athletic Department and the
Alumni Association, as well as
donations from family and friends.
For more about the memorial
or to contribute, visit the Web
at www.clemson.edu/military/
scrollofhonor.html or contact Amy
Craft (864) 656-1240; Hap Carr
(864) 654-6611, hapcarr@bellsouth.
net; or Danny Rhodes (864) 9851550, rhodesdanny@bellsouth.net.
In 1942, Clemson Memorial
Stadium was named to honor
alumni and students who made
the ultimate sacrifice. Now,
more than six decades later,
their names — and the names
of those who’ve since died
in service to our country —
will become a visible part of
campus.
In September, the Clemson
Corps broke ground for the
Scroll of Honor Memorial
adjacent to the East Gate of the
Volunteer of the Year
The Alumni Association’s 2008 Volunteer of the Year — Jessie Richardson Hood ’94 — is
one busy lady. She’s a health policy analyst at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, a postgraduate student, a wife and mom, and an extraordinary Clemson
volunteer.
A biological sciences graduate, Hood also holds a master of public health degree from
Morehead School of Medicine and is pursuing a doctor of science degree at the Harvard
School of Public Health.
For Clemson, she’s the current national chairwoman of the Women’s Alumni
Council, a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors and a member of the
nomination committee for the Clemson University Black Alumni Council (CBAC).
Wil Brasington with Jessie and Joe Hood
She’s also served as CBAC president and Alumni National Council representative.
She lives with her husband, Joe ’98 (who’s on the Alumni Council), and son, J. Ellis, in Atlanta, Ga.
A series of the College of Business and
Behavioral Science (CBBS) receptions and
luncheons reconnected alumni with Clemson
and with current students. Pictured in New
York are Steve and Kathy Dillon Goldstein,
CBBS Dean Claude Lilly, Art and Joan Spiro
(benefactors of the Spiro Institute for
Entrepreneurial Leadership), LaBruce Boggan
and Brianna “Bree” Moore.
CareerShift for job seekers
Tiger Band Alumni
The Alumni Association’s
new CareerShift offers you
a comprehensive online
resource with an easy-to-use
Web site to conduct and organize your job search. You can:
• Search and store jobs from all the major job boards, company Web sites, newspapers and anywhere else a job is posted on the Internet.
• Get inside contact information immediately, including email addresses for millions of companies, even alumni, then save and manage your lists.
• Create as many targeted résumés and cover letters as needed or upload your current documents.
• Automatically create unlimited email campaigns with your saved contacts, résumés and cover letters.
• Access your confidential account from anywhere, 24/7.
To sign up, go to clemson.careershift.com.
Tiger Band Alumni still march for Clemson and work hard
to raise funds for current band students through the Clemson
University Tiger Band
Association (CUTBA).
Their latest effort is
through the Web site — www.
clemsontigerbandgear.com
— where they sell cool Tiger
Band gear. Their apparel can be
purchased with the Tiger Band
logo, the Tiger Band Parent logo
or the CUTBA logo. Proceeds
help fund the Tiger Band
Alumni CUTBA Scholarship Endowment.
For more about CUTBA and Tiger Band Alumni, go to www.
clemson.edu/CUTBA.
Have an idea to reconnect?
Calling Clemson nurses
Save the date — April 4, 2009 — for Nursing Alumni Day
and a business meeting of Clemson Alumni Nursing. For more
information, go to www.clemson.edu/hehd/nursing.
FREE email forwarding
Travel adventures
Make your plans and pack your bags for PASSPORT Travel
adventures. Upcoming trips include Legends of the Nile, China
and the Yangtze River, a cruise of the Baltic Sea and Norwegian
Fjords, Scandinavia, Great Journey through Europe, Alaska,
Ireland and Ancient Wonders of the Mediterranean.
For more information, go to www.clemson.edu/alumni/travel or
contact Randy Boatwright at (864) 656-5671.
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Take advantage of your Alumni Association’s free email forwarding service.
You’ll get an easy-to-remember address — your.name@alumni.clemson.
edu — that will stay the same even as your other email addresses change.
For fast and simple registration, go to www.clemson.edu/alumni.
Reunion 2009
Mark your calendar for Alumni Reunion Weekend 2009 — June 11-13 — to
celebrate the golden anniversary of the Class of 1959 and other reunioning
classes. For more information, contact Megan McDow at (864) 656-2345.
Baltimore/Washington, D.C.
More than 100 Tigers in the Clemson Club of Baltimore/Washington, D.C., gathered for
the annual summer Pig Pickin’ at the home of Patsy ’80 and John ’80 DuPre.
Have an idea for a special interest group of
Clemson people? We want to hear from you.
We work hard to promote awareness of alumni
special interest groups — for example, Semper
Fi Society for Marines, Tiger Band Alumni,
Young Alumni Council, Women’s Alumni Council,
Clemson University Real Estate Association and
many others.
Because alumni have a variety of ways
that they remember and celebrate their time
at Clemson, the possibility for other groups is
almost unlimited. Please let us know about a Clemson special
interest group you would like to form. We can
help organize, plan events and get in touch
with classmates. For more information, Contact
Elizabeth Milhous at (864) 656-2345 or email
milhou3@clemson.edu.
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Alumni Council serving you
Alumni Council members at work.
New Alumni Council
Meet the new Clemson Alumni
Association Board of Directors
T
he new Alumni Board of Directors will carry out the managerial and oversight responsibilities that are the core work of most
boards: approving our annual budget, creating policy, monitoring the progress of our strategic plan and similar assignments.
The 2008-09 board includes:
Leslie D. Callison ’81, president
Lexington, lescal59@aol.com
James A. “Jimmy” Kimbell III ’87, president-elect
Anderson, jimmy.kimbell@bankanderson.com
E. Grant Burns ’88, past president
Greer, grant.burns@alumni.clemson.edu
James “Jimmy” Addison ’68, Clemson University Foundation
Atlanta, Ga., james.addison@troutmansanders.com
James Bostic ’69, PhD ’72, IPTAY
Atlanta, Ga., bostic_j@bellsouth.net
B. Lindsey Clark ’02
Orlando, Fla., blindseyclark@hotmail.com
W. Paul Craven ’87
Greer, paulc@grandsouth.com
L. Taylor Garick III ’94
Orangeburg, tgarick@sc.rr.com
Rick Griffin
Beaufort, dwntwnmarina@islc.net
J. Les Heaton Jr. ’74
Kingsport, Tenn., les.heaton@wachoviasec.com
Alex “Bud” Hicklin III ’85
Clemson, ohicklin@alumni.clemson.edu
Jessie R. Hood ’94
Atlanta, Ga., jessierichardson@alumni.clemson.edu
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Ann W. Hunter ’80, M ’82
Greenwood, ann.hunter@alumni.clemson.edu
Satch Krantz ’72
Columbia, skrantz@riverbanks.org
Allen Martin ’69
Vienna, Va., amartin@livingstongroupdc.com
Mike Maxwell ’67, M ’68
Atlanta, Ga., mjmaxwell@aol.com
Our new Alumni Council members come from across campus
and across the country. They’ll provide leadership, ideas, input
and good will to help the Alumni Association serve, involve and
inform alumni and advance interests of the University.
The council includes Clemson Club and other alumni special
interest group presidents; undergraduate and graduate student
presidents; representatives from each graduating class, academic
college, the Board of Visitors, Foundation Board and Board of
Trustees; past presidents of the Alumni Association; the University
president and the vice president of Advancement; and the Alumni
Association executive director, senior director and the Alumni
Board.
Clemson Family,
we’ve moved up to No. 22!
Thanks to the support of thousands of alumni and friends who
made annual gifts last year, Clemson moved up five spots in the
U.S.News & World Report ranking to 22nd among national
public universities.
R. Kelly Molony ’83
Charleston, kelly@creditadjustment.com
Curtis H. Plyler ’93
Raleigh, N.C., cplyler@nc.rr.com
You are making a difference in Clemson’s progress toward our
goal of being one of the nation’s top-20 public universities. A
great university is key to improving lives and igniting economic
prosperity.
Greg Younghans ’93
Camden, gyounghans@go2uti.com
Ex-Officio members include:
Don’t let the calendar- and tax-year end without increasing
your gift to ensure Clemson’s continued success. Use the
enclosed envelope, call (864) 656-5896 or go online to
www.clemson.edu/isupportcu.
J.J. Britton ’58, Clemson Board of Trustees
Sumter
Brian J. O’Rourke ’83, M ’85, Development and Alumni Relations
executive director
Clemson, orourke@clemson.edu
Alumni Association president Leslie Callison ’81 and her family
— Reel ’12, Scott and Caroline ’10 — along with “chauffeur”
Bud Hicklin ’85 help kick off Clemson football during the First
Friday Parade.
Thanks to the
Stephen S. McCrorey ’68
Rock Hill, smccrorey@scottstringfellow.com
Wil Brasington ’00, Alumni Relations senior director
Clemson, wil@clemson.edu
Go Orange!
See the enclosed gift envelope to find
out how to receive your free Clemson
calendar and win tickets to the
Clemson vs. Duke basketball game.
Your annual gift makes a difference.
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Student Life
Welcome Back!
Thousands of people flocked to downtown Clemson to enjoy food, games, giveaways and music to kick off the new school year at the Welcome Back Festival. The
annual festival is sponsored by the Clemson Student Alumni Council and Clemson
Alumni Association, with support from the city of Clemson and area businesses.
Proceeds go to the Student Alumni Council Endowment Fund, which helps fund
scholarships.
One Clemson
Freshmen and new transfer students interact during “One Clemson,” a program
to help them learn about the University’s core values and what it means to be a
part of the Clemson family.
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Grill-N-Greet
National equestrians
Students reunited with old
friends and met
new ones in
August at GrillN-Greet — an
annual event that
combines music,
food and entertainment with
a fair for multicultural student
organizations.
Clemson’s
Multicultural Programs and Services, with the
Omicron Lambda chapter of Phi Beta Sigma
fraternity, sponsors this back-to-school event
and many more throughout the year.
For more on Clemson’s multicultural programs,
services and student organizations, go to www.
clemson.edu/studentaffairs/gic/multicultural
or contact the Gantt Intercultural Center at gic-l@
clemson.edu or (864) 656-7625.
Equestrians Ashley Phillips, Sarah Spainhour,
Charlotte Powers and coach Katie Maxwell
Clemson University Equestrian Team members
competed in the nationals at Los Angeles, Calif.,
earlier this year and earned top-10 finishes.
Sarah Beth Spainhour brought home first place.
The Clemson Equestrian Team, a club sport,
has 40 members and travels to six shows a year,
competing in the Intercollegiate Horse Show
Association.
For more information, go online at www.
clemson.edu/cuet or contact Emily Beiting, team
president, at ebeitin@clemson.edu.
Remembering RJ
When senior engineering student Ralph “RJ”
Pinnock was killed in a highway accident last
fall, he left a saddened Clemson family. Pinnock
had been a member of student government, the
MLK Enhancement Committee and the Clemson
University Symphony Orchestra.
He was vice president of the Pi Alpha chapter
of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and he helped other
minority engineering and science students as a
PEER (Programs for Educational Enrichment and
Retention) mentor.
To honor him, Hercules Inc., a specialty chemicals corporation in Wilmington, Del., — where he’d planned to intern — has
established the Ralph Nathanial Pinnock Jr. Memorial Annual Scholarship at
Clemson. The fund will provide scholarships to enhance diversity in chemical and
biomolecular engineering.
If you’d like to support the fund, designate gifts to the Pinnock Scholarship and
make payable to the Clemson University Foundation, PO Box 1889, Clemson, SC
29633.
Spectacular classroom
Students in a new geology
class open to all majors —
Western U.S. Field Study
— experienced firsthand
the spectacular geology of
the Colorado Plateau. Led by
environmental engineering
and earth sciences professor
Richard Warner and Ph.D.
student Scott Brame, the
class embarked on a journey
across central and southern
Utah.
They drove, camped and
hiked across the plateau, visiting national and state parks
and national monuments.
They studied — up-close
— arches, natural bridges,
canyons, hoodoos, cliffs
and mesas, monoclines
and faults, and many other
geological features.
In Scotland, students meet Braveheart
outside Edinburgh Castle.
National Scholars take flight
Emily Burchfield in
front of Magdalen,
one of the oldest
colleges at Oxford.
‘Me at Magdalen’
Students Brittany Heisler
(front) and Jenn Walker in
Spooky Gulch
“Tonight we had our closing dinner/ceremonies. I met some amazing people, and it’s quite
sad to leave them.” So ends Calhoun Honors
College student Emily Burchfield’s photo- and
experience-filled blog from Oxford, England.
As the 2008 Duckenfield Scholar, Burchfield,
an economics major, studied at St. Peter’s
College at the University of Oxford during the
summer. The scholarship program was established by family and friends in memory of Chris
Duckenfield, a former Clemson computing and
information technology leader, who was an
alumnus of St. Peter’s College.
Clemson National Scholars took to the skies during Maymester and the
summer to study in Alaska, Scotland and the United Kingdom, and Turkey.
As part of a biological sciences course taught by Jerry Waldvogel, one
group observed Alaskan wildlife, native cultures and the politics of land
management. Another group visited Turkey for a political science course
taught by Zeynep Taydas on the country’s politics, history, culture and art.
A third group, led by Michael Silvestri of the history department, studied
on-site history, politics, culture and literature of the United Kingdom and
Scotland.
Chantilly, Va.
Arnold, Md.
Class of 2012
The Clemson Club of Baltimore/Washington, D.C., welcomed Class of 2012 students to the Clemson family at the club’s annual Freshmen Sendoff parties.
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The Clemson Family
Classmates
1952
Thaddeus R. Arnold Jr.
(ARCHENG) of Anderson was
named to the S.C. Telephone
Association Hall of Fame for
outstanding contributions
to the development of the
telecommunications industry.
He retired as principal and
senior vice president of Design
South Professionals Inc.
At Clemson, he’s remembered fondly by Tiger
nation as a standout quarterback from 1965-67.
In fact, Howard’s Rock was unveiled at the opening game in 1966, in which Addison led a comeback victory over Virginia.
When Johnny came to Clemson two decades
ago, he brought a special grill with him,
the P.D.Q. Cooker. He used it tailgating in
his college days and still uses it today. He
liked it so well that, a few years ago, he
bought the rights to the P.D.Q. Cooker and
the Lowcountry Oyster Steamer.
He was an outstanding student as well, making Academic All-ACC, receiving the
1968 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and earning other awards. He went on to
get his law degree at the University of Virginia.
Frank, retired president and CEO of Coburg The Johnny Hanckel Family
Dairy Inc., became his consultant, advising him on everything from sales to design to new
recipes. Today, business is sizzlin’. Lowcountry Cookers was recently featured in Cooking with
Paula Deen, Garden & Gun and Charleston magazines, and other publications.
Another part of the Hanckel tradition is supporting Clemson, both monetarily and as great ambassadors. They’re benefactors
of the Frank S. & Loraine B. Hanckel Family Endowment for the Clemson University Libraries, the Frank S. & Loraine B. Hanckel
Family Endowment for the Class of ’55 Exchange and a generous gift to the Palmetto Challenge Program.
1961
Thomas M. Ariail (TE) of
Spartanburg can proudly claim
like father, like daughter. In
1988, he served as the president
of the Southern Textile
Association. Now, 20 years
later, his daughter, Lisa Ariail
Siggins (’81 ECON), serves
as the first female president
in STA’s 100th year. She’s an
engineer at Glen Raven in
Anderson.
Global reach
Gene E. Phillips ’60
Chemical engineering graduate Gene Phillips is adviser to Prime Income Asset Management,
a Dallas-based real estate management company and energy sector adviser, which owns,
develops and manages more than $4.5 billion of commercial real estate and advises energy
companies with both domestic and international operations.
One of Prime’s major projects is Mercer Crossing, a 1,200-acre development in the heart
of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. This project is an outgrowth of Phillips’ vision for a
multiuse development concept that pays attention to the roots of its home city of Farmers
Branch, the oldest community in Dallas County, while creating a new urban environment.
Phillips, originally from Piedmont, went to Clemson on a scholarship through the textile
plant where his mother worked. In Texas, he’s made a huge name for himself in real estate
and energy.
His work, however, is global. Concerned about the growing energy needs, he’s now engaged in alternate energy prospects
in places as unlikely as Poland, Bulgaria, France and England, where he sees tremendous opportunity. His philanthropic
concerns are global too, from hurricane recovery in New Orleans to power generation in the African nation of Ghana.
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Economics graduate Jimmy Addison of Atlanta,
Ga., a commercial real estate attorney and partner
in Troutman Sanders LLP, counsels clients across
the country. But he still finds time to serve the
University.
The Hanckels of Charleston are a family of tradition. Frank came to Clemson
in the early 1950s as a dairy major, son Johnny followed in the 1980s, and
grandson Jay is here now. Another part of the Hanckel tradition is firing up
the outdoor grill for large family gatherings. In fact, it’s become a family
business — Lowcountry Cookers LLC (www.lowcountrycookers.com).
Frank and Jay
L. Bynum Driggers (AGE)
of Raleigh, N.C., was
inducted into the N.C. Pork
Council’s Hall of Fame.
Retired Extension professor
at N.C. State University,
he spent his life in the hog
industry — teaching, writing,
speaking and working to make
improvements.
James W. “Jimmy” Addison ’68
Frank ’55 and Johnny Hanckel
Richard S. Quattlebaum
(AGE) and his wife, Shelby,
of Pendleton, celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary.
1957
CU Foundation president
Lowcountry sizzle
1955
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Joe Wilson (AGSC, M ’76
AGED) of North Augusta
was named the Outstanding
Director of Adult Agricultural
Education in the Southern
States and one of six in the
United States for 2008, an
honor he also received in
1999. He retired as agricultural
education instructor at Aiken
High School after 33 years and
was a former president of the
S.C. Agricultural Educators
Association.
Throughout his career, he’s stayed connected to Clemson. Several years ago,
he and his wife, Dinny, established the Virginia and Bill Addison Endowment
for the Humanities in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities in honor
of his parents.
This fall he became board chairman of the Clemson University Foundation. The
75-year-old foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization to promote
the welfare and development of the University’s educational and scientific
goals. Gifts to the foundation support and build Clemson’s academic, research
and public service programs.
1964
J. Ed Sherman (TEXTMGT)
of Mauldin and Jason M.
Byrd (’03 EE) of Landrum
have joined forces to make
their company, Republic
Locomotives, a leader in yard
switchers — rail locomotives
that are used for powerful
short hauls. They are part of
a production team that has
quadrupled output the past
year.
1966
Dianna Sheram Massey
(ENGL) is married and living
in Huntsville, Ala.
* Active Clemson Fund
donor for 2009 Fiscal Year
(July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009)
through September 1.
For more information, call
Annual Giving at
(864) 656-5896.
1969
Edward R. Clayton (PhD
ASC&I) of Blacksburg,
Va., is professor emeritus at
Virginia Tech University.
He’s the Ralph Lenz Professor
of Business Information
Technology in the Pamplin
College of Business.
Thomas K. Gaither Jr. (RPA,
M ’77 ADMSPV) of Pawleys
Island retired from college
coaching after 25 years. He’s an
administrator with Georgetown
County Schools.
*W. Frank Walker (INDMGT)
of Rock Hill, a decorated
Vietnam War veteran, received
a special honor from the S.C.
Army National Guard. The
weapons range at Fort Jackson
has been named the Wesley
Frank Walker Range. As a
helicopter pilot serving in
Vietnam, he and his crew were
responsible for the rescue of
fellow soldiers while under fire.
1970
M. Lynn Deanhardt (CHEM)
of Greenwood was selected the
2008 Distinguished Professor of
the Year at Lander University.
He’s a professor of analytical
chemistry.
1973
Charles H. Craig (ENA) of
San Diego, Calif., is senior
instructor and program chair
for nondestructive testing at
National Polytechnic College
of Science.
H. Eddie McKnight (ZOOL,
M ’79 AGSC) of Moncks
Corner received the Brand
Champion national award for
promotion of the Touchstone
Energy brand. He’s vice
president of Berkeley Electric
Co-op.
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or fax your items to us at
(864) 656-5004 or email
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Be sure to include
your full name, class
year, major and
address.
A d d ress
c h a n g e d ?
You can call it in directly
to 1-800-313-6517, fax
(864) 656-1692 or email
dgeter@clemson.edu.
1974
Dennis L. Curl (ENA) of
Crownsville, Md., is vice
president of Gilbane Building
Co. in Laurel.
CASA Judge of the Year
Leslie Kirkland Riddle ’81
Secondary education graduate Leslie Riddle of Irmo is a family court judge in
the 5th Circuit, which includes
Richland and Kershaw counties.
She has been named 2008
National Judge of the Year by
CASA — the Court Appointed
Special Advocate Association.
The nonprofit organization’s
volunteers represent abused
and neglected children in
court through nearly 1,000
programs nationwide. Riddle’s
“exceptional leadership” and “clear passion for the children in her court” made
her the unanimous choice from among more than 40 nominees.
Riddle, who holds a law degree from the University of South Carolina, began her
involvement with the Richland County CASA program as a pro-bono attorney
17 years ago. She’s been a strong force in ensuring justice for S.C. children ever
since.
As for Clemson, it’s a family matter. Her brothers — Wesley ’81 and Keith ’82
Kirkland — are alumni; her husband, Charles Dayton Riddle, is a 1981 graduate;
and one of her sons (Dayton) is a Clemson student.
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1979
David N. Fisher (DESIGN, M
’81 ARCH) of Charleston is
a partner in the architectural
firm of Thomas & Denzinger,
the S.C. American Institute of
Architects’ 2008 Firm of the
Year.
Frank G. Honeycutt (ELED)
of Columbia has published his
sixth book, Marry a Pregnant
Virgin: Unusual Bible Stories
for New and Curious Christians
(Minneapolis: Augsburg
Books). He’s senior pastor of
Ebenezer Lutheran Church.
1980
Sam B. Craig (FORMGT) of
Asheville, N.C., opened Craig
Law Firm, PLLC.
*Ronald C. Lindsay (CHE)
of Johnson City, Tenn.,
is senior vice president,
corporate strategy and regional
leadership, of Eastman
Chemical Co.
R. Hampton Painter III
(ECON) of Greer is senior vice
president and chief financial
officer of Plantation Financial
Corp. in Greenville.
1981
Stephen L. Jones (ANSC) of
Moncks Corner was named the
2008 S.C. Veterinarian of the
Year by the S.C. Veterinarian
Medical Association and was
elected to the board of directors
of the American Heartworm
Society.
1982
Chris N. Patterson (PSYCH)
of Panama City Beach, Fla.,
was named by Florida Super
Lawyers magazine as one of the
top attorneys in the state for
the third year in a row.
Care-filled design
Top legal administrator
Brad B. Smith ’82, ’83, ’85
S. Jane Todd ’84
Architect Brad Smith has helped make a “wish”
of the Greenville County Cancer Society become
a reality — the McCall Hospice House, a 30-bed
home on Greenville Tech’s Brashier campus. A
longtime board member and past president of
the society, Smith served as the construction
committee chairman.
He holds degrees in design, building science and
management, and architecture and has practiced
in Greenville for 25 years. He and fellow Clemson alumnus and architect Joseph
Pazdan ’82, ’83 formed Pazdan-Smith Group Architects.
The firm has built a reputation for business acumen and site-sensitive design. It
has nearly 50 staff members in a studio-based environment that includes civic,
health care, institutional and commercial design. The American Institute of
Architects’ S.C. chapter recently recognized the firm with an Energy &
Sustainability Citation and Honor Award for CU-ICAR Collaboration 3, which
received a LEED Core & Shell Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.
At Clemson, both men are trustees of the Clemson Advancement Foundation for
Design and Building (Smith is past president), and their firm is supporting and
helping raise funds for the renovation and expansion of Lee Hall.
Donna Kay Rhoden (POSC)
of Boca Raton, Fla., is chief
of staff at West Boca Raton
Medical Center.
1986
M. Frederick “Freddie” Zink M ’82
J. Barry Tomlinson (POSC,
M ’96 PACCT) of Darlington
is assistant director of reunions,
leadership and annual giving
for the University of Virginia,
Charlottesville.
Veterinarian Maj. Freddie Zink ’82 of Piedmont, an animal and food industries graduate, deployed to Iraq in May where he is
teaching local farmers to care for their livestock.
1987
Tigers in Iraq
As a member of a Civil Affairs Battalion, he has been providing education and instructions on vaccinations and proper treatment for farm animals where veterinary care is limited. He is also working with Iraqi veterinarians to improve their knowledge
and skills.
On another project, Zink collaborated with fellow Clemson alumnus
and veterinarian Lt. Col. Robert
“Bob” Sindler ’74 of Orlando, Fla.,
to bring tigers to the Baghdad Zoo.
Sindler helped arrange the donation of the two Siberian-Bengal
tigers — Riley and Hope —from
the Conservators Center in North
Carolina. The two supervised the
tigers’ transportation from the
United States to Iraq. (See Zink
and Sindler at the Baghdad Zoo in
Clemson World Travelers, p. 43.)
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The Clemson Family
L. Steve Baucom (INED)
of Harrisburg, N.C., coaches
baseball for Team Mint Hill in
Mint Hill. The former Tiger
baseball player took his team
to Limoges, France, to compete
in the Sister Cities Baseball
Tournament against several
other countries. They not only
won the tournament, they
showed their Clemson colors
everywhere they went.
Jennifer Freeman (ACCT,
M ’88 PACCT) and Steven
D. (ME) Capps are living in
Charlotte, N.C., where Steven
was promoted to engineering
Administrative management graduate Jane Todd of Lexington has earned
national recognition for her firm. Todd, administrative manager of Nelson
Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, received the Association of Legal Administrators
(ALA) Quest Award for 2008. She
was selected from nearly 900 candidates.
1993
Todd manages office activities in
multiple locations of the firm, including Columbia, Washington, D.C., and
Boston, Mass., and has a hand in projects in the firm’s other office locations.
(The firm has attorneys practicing
from offices in Atlanta, Boston,
Charleston, Charlotte, Columbia,
Greenville, Myrtle Beach, Raleigh,
Washington and Winston-Salem.)
Stephanie James Shipley
(ENGL) of Delray Beach,
Fla., is executive director of
the Delray Beach Historical
Society in Palm Beach County.
1994
In addition to her leadership in the
S.C. chapter of ALA, she has participated in N.C. chapters through
meetings, conferences and networking.
manager for McGuire Nuclear
Station. He was previously with
Oconee Nuclear Station.
1988
Anthony J. Meyer
(ADMMGT) of Lexington is
chairman of the Leadership
Speakers Division for the
Association for Healthcare
Philanthropy conference. He’s
president of the Lexington
Medical Center Foundation in
Columbia.
1989
Brent D. (FINMGT) and Kate
Knox (’91 ELED) Masters
are living in Amsterdam,
Netherlands. He’s director of
European business development
for PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Dean A. Harman (MGT) of
Springs, Texas, is a certified
financial planner and owner of
Harman Wealth Management.
He has been featured in articles
in InvestmentNews, Smart
Money, Wall Street Journal and
Retire Smart magazines.
1990
David J. De Vita (MGT-SFTY)
of Greenville is president and
founder of Carolina Safety
Consultants, a full-service
environment, health and safety
consulting firm. The firm has
developed a free safety-risk-level
assessment test that can be
found at www.csc-llc.net.
A. Hal Nelson III (CRE)
of Corning, N.Y., is general
manager for Corning (Shanghai)
Co. Ltd.
1992
*Robin M. Cathey (SEDMATH, M ’95 CNLGUID) of
Anderson completed Global
Career Development Facilitator
certification and is a guidance
counselor at T.L. Hanna High
School.
* Active Clemson Fund donor for 2009 Fiscal Year
(July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009) through September 1.
For more information, call Annual Giving at (864) 656-5896.
J. Michael Bitzer (M HIST) of
Salisbury, N.C., was awarded
tenure and promoted to
associate professor of political
science and history at Catawba
College. He also was awarded
the Kenneth Clapp Tri-Delta
Service Award by the college.
Nancy Hegan Love (PhD ESE)
of Ann Harbor, Mich., is chair
of the department of civil and
environmental engineering at
the University of Michigan.
1995
Don O. Jamison (INDMGT,
M ’99 HRD) of Clemson is
director of North American
manufacturing and quality for
Ross Controls.
Nancy Martorano (POSC)
of Dayton, Ohio, was awarded
tenure and promoted to
associate professor of political
science at the University of
Dayton.
1996
O. Kenneth Webb (DESIGN,
M ’02 ARCH) of Takoma Park,
Md., was named a principal
with RTKL where he is a
health care designer.
Ed excellence
Lee M. D’Andrea M ’92, PhD ’02
Elementary education and educational leadership graduate Lee D’Andrea has
received the University Council for Educational Administration Excellence in
Educational Leadership Award for
2008.
The award provides national
recognition to practicing school
administrators who have made
significant contributions to the
improvement of administrator
preparation. D’Andrea is superintendent of
Pickens School District and has
periodically taught courses for the
educational leadership program in
Clemson’s Eugene T. Moore School
of Education. At Clemson, she’s on
the external advisory board for the
College of Health, Education and
Human Development.
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1997
Zachery R. Williams
(HIST) of Fairlawn, Ohio,
is an assistant professor of
African American history and
Pan African studies at the
University of Akron. He was
named to Cleveland’s 40/40
Club, which honors African
Americans, ages 40 and under,
who are making significant
contributions in the Greater
Cleveland area. He also serves
as an associate minister at
Olivet Institutional Baptist
Church.
1998
David L. (MKTG) and Stacey
Pressnell (’99 ELED) Crandall
are living in Nashville, Tenn.
He’s the national sales key
accounts manager for Lifetouch
National School Studios Inc.
2000
New doctors of veterinary
medicine (from UGA)
include Jennifer L. Carter
’00 (ANSC), Laura
L. Gray ’02 (NURS),
Kathryn N. Padgett ’02
(ANSC), Ashley A.
McAulay ’03 (AVS),
William O. Ratterree ’03
(AVS), Lindsey E. Helms
’04 (AVS), Cassandra M.
Pugh ’04 (ANSC), Jena
R. Wickman ’04 (ANSC),
Anna A. Bagwell ’05
(ANSC) and Elizabeth L.
Marlow ’05 (ANSC).
Boyce Tyndall III (MGT)
and Elizabeth Kent (ELED)
Estes are married and living in
Charlotte, N.C.
Josh P. Kearns (CHEM) of
Huntington, W.Va., founded
Aqueous Solutions, a grassroots
organization for enabling
National engineer
leader
Amy Winn Herbert ’93
Mechanical engineer Amy Herbert
has been awarded the 2008
Society of Women Engineers
(SWE) Emerging Leader Award for
Manufacturing and Construction.
Herbert has been with the Fluor
Foundation for more than 14 years
and is currently project manager
on the Eastman project.
At Clemson, she worked with the University’s SWE student chapter to develop
programs and sponsor events, and has also served as a mentor for the Greenville
office of Graduates Advancing to Professionalism shadow program.
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*Elizabeth R. Garrison ’95
Speech and communication graduate Elizabeth Garrison of Greenville is
doing what she can to increase recycling efforts of Upstate businesses. In
fact, she’s making it her
business — Ever Green
Recycling.
A former economic developer for Greenville
County, Garrison noticed
that most businesses
want to recycle but just
don’t have an in-house
program that works
well.
The entrepreneur began
her Ever Green Recycling
last fall to offer businesses a better way. Ever Green (www.ever-greenrecycling.com) serves a
growing number of businesses in Greenville including several firms, upscale
restaurants and hotels, manufacturing companies and offices.
Garrison, an Anderson native, is a past president of the Greenville Clemson
Young Alumni Club.
households and communities
to ensure the safety of drinking
water. Aqueous Solutions
(www.aqsolutions.org) was
awarded a grant from the
Charles A. and Anne Morrow
Lindbergh Foundation.
2001
Adair Ramage Roark
(INDMGT) of Simpsonville
is an accounting analyst for
Clockwork CFO & Controller
Services in Greenville.
2002
Alecia Wheeler Clamp
(ELED) of Lexington, a firstgrade teacher, was awarded
National Board Certification in
elementary education.
Kate Nickless Hutz (FSN) is
married and living in Vinings,
Ga. She’s a registered dietitian
with a dialysis laboratory
company.
Brian J. Messina (L&IT) of
Tarragona, Spain, is with a
shipping agency where he’s
coordinator of the traffic
department and commercial
director for the head office in
the Port of Tarragona as well
other ports in the country.
2003
Donna A. Bowen (SPAN, M
’06 PROFCOM) of Charleston
is a writer for the PSA Web
team at the University.
* Active Clemson Fund donor for 2009 Fiscal Year
(July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009) through September 1.
For more information, call Annual Giving at (864) 656-5896.
Ben S. (PKGSC) and Julie
Copeland (MKTG) Mizell are
married and living in Atlanta,
Ga.
Anne Snipes (SP&COMM)
and Bradley L. (CE) Smith
are married and living in
Greenville. She’s a public
relations account manager
for Erwin-Penland, and he’s
a project manager for Sloan
Construction.
Ryan Smith (HIST) of
Loganville, Ga., is a DirectBuy
franchise owner.
2004
Katie E. Kimble (M APLPSY)
of Dublin, Ohio, is a senior
associate in user experience
design at Lextant.
Jason M. Leyba (CMPSC) of
Fremont, Calif., is a software
engineer at Google Inc. in
Mountain View.
Saving tigers
Peomia C. Lee ’07
When Peomia Lee of Eutawville was at
Clemson majoring in biological sciences
and microbiology, she became involved
with Tigers for Tigers. The student organization is dedicated to saving tigers in
their native habitat through education
and conservation. That experience later
led her to three months in India, earlier
this year, as a naturalist intern at the
Bandhavgarh Jungle Lodge.
During her senior year, Lee took the
“biodiversity and conservation in India”
study-abroad course, taught by biological
sciences professor David Tonkyn, chief
supporter and adviser of Tigers for Tigers, and international student affairs director Louis Bregger. As part of the course,
students traveled to India during spring break.
That trip inspired Lee to do more. After graduation, she applied for the naturalist internship at the Bandhavgarh Jungle
Lodge. There she helped educate visitors about India’s wildlife and the importance of conservation, especially tiger
conservation, and took part in safaris through the jungle looking for tigers.
2005
Erinne R. Dabkowski
(BIOSC) of Morgantown,
W. Va., a current Ph.D. student
at Clemson, was awarded an
American Heart Association
predoctoral fellowship and
is one of only four people
selected as a trainee on the
new Cardiopulmonary T32
grant. She works in the lab
of professor John Hollander,
who was recently awarded an
American Heart Association
grant-in-aid.
Cool chemistry
Lisa Coward Peake ’01
Chemistry graduate Lisa Peake of Land O’Lakes,
Fla., received the Presidential Award for
Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
earlier this year. The award is funded through
the National Science Foundation and honors
one science teacher from each of the 50 states. Peake, who minored in education, taught
at Wesley Chapel High School and participated in the University of South Florida’s
summer research program for teachers to
enhance her teaching skills and better engage
students. She has been recognized as a National
Honor Roll Outstanding American Teacher.
She has made presentations at the National
Science Teachers Association and the American
Chemical Society. She’s a member of the Golden
Key National Honor Society and National
Chemistry Honor Society.
PHOTO: Steve Boxall/Zero Gravity Corp.
She’s the Energy and Chemical unit
representative on the Greenville
HSE Improvement Team and was
selected to participate in the 20082009 class of Leadership South Carolina. She was also elected to the YWCA of
Greenville board of directors.
Eco-preneur
The Clemson Family
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The Clemson Family
The Clemson Family
Little
Tigers
S.C. Teacher of the Year
Jenna Hallman M ’08
Educational leadership graduate Jenna
Hallman is the 2008-09 S.C. Teacher of
the Year, representing the state’s 50,000
teachers.
Kara Jones Krohn ’95, a son,
Maxmillion Sterling, June 4, 2007.
Emily Hershberger Parker ’95, a
son, Theodore Daniel,
April 3, 2008.
Hallman, a 10-year veteran, is a science
specialist at Calhoun Academy for the Arts,
Anderson School District 5. Her keen interest
and instructional methods lead students
to their own moments of discovery.
Bruce A. Jordan ’96, a son,
Jacob Allan, Jan. 9, 2008.
Brian T. Carver ’85, a son,
Adin Joel, July 22, 2007.
As state teacher of the year, Hallman will
receive a $25,000 cash award, Dell laptop
computer, set of Michelin tires, Jostens
ring and use of a 2008 BMW Z-4 roadster
for a year. She will participate in a one-year
residency program at the Center for Educator
Recruitment, Retention and Advancement
and serve as a statewide ambassador for
teachers.
Penelope Huber Speed ’87, a son,
Benjamin Dean, April 12, 2008.
First Friday
President *Jim ’70 and *Marcia Barker with First Friday Parade
grand marshal *Ben Skardon ’38. Skardon, English professor
emeritus and Alumni Master Teacher, is a decorated veteran, loyal
Clemson supporter and avid volunteer.
Hallman will take part in Leadership South Carolina, and the Notre Dame Club
of the Western Carolinas will send her to its Excellence in Teaching Symposium.
She’ll also work with the S.C. Teacher Forum.
* Active Clemson Fund donor for 2009 Fiscal Year
(July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009) through September 1.
For more information, call Annual Giving at (864) 656-5896.
The Litter Hitter wants YOU
to conserve water!
www.clemson.edu/solidgreen
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Margo Byrum ’94, M ’98 and
Matthew D. ’98 Weir, a daughter,
Karsen Emma, Oct. 5, 2007.
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Kristine M. Herakovich ’88,
a daughter, Sophie Marie,
March 14, 2008.
Cheri Dunmore Phyfer ’89,
M ’93, a daughter, Allison Marie,
April 1, 2008.
Amy Buelow Ledlow ’91, a son,
Michael Frederick, March 3, 2008.
Missy Hartness Sparrow ’91,
a son, Jackson Henry,
Nov. 13, 2007.
Caroline Gleaton Bean ’92, a son,
Harrison Grant, June 12, 2008,
grandson of Michael B. Gleaton
Sr. ’58.
Stephen C. Bellum ’92, a
daughter, Warner Petra Mouta,
March 8, 2008.
Hilary Shallo Thesmar ’92,
PhD ’97, a son, Alfred Cooper,
March 2, 2008.
Jeffrey T. Trexler ’92, a son,
Lucas Nolan, Dec. 17, 2007.
Charles T. Jr. and Stephanie Hess
Sexton ’96, a daughter, Maegan
Elizabeth, Feb. 26, 2008.
Bradley C. Elliott ’97, a daughter,
Ruby Grace, Jan. 18, 2008.
Jennifer Jones Mauro ’97,
a daughter, Riley Caroline,
Feb. 8, 2008.
Alicia Fishburne McCabe ’93, M
’94, a son, Christopher Matthew
Jr., April 23, 2008.
Heather Houston ’98, M ’03 and
Matthew J. ’98 Eidson,
a daughter, Corley Ann,
May 20, 2008.
Kristen Wagner Sanger ’93,
a daughter, Naomi Marie,
Nov. 27, 2007.
G. Ray George Jr. ’98,
a daughter, Lydia Helen,
April 3, 2008.
Karen Reduc Adams ’94, a son,
Thomas Owen, Feb. 19, 2006.
Mike C. ’98 and Taylor Zeck ’00
Rider, a daughter, Caroline,
Jan. 31, 2006.
Gary G. ’94 and Amy Stancil ’97
Marshall, a son, Thomas Graham,
Oct. 30, 2007.
Ashley Reese Evans ’99, a son,
Carter Thomas, Nov. 2, 2007.
Daniel J. ’99 and Vanessa
Nunnally ’99, M ’02 McGrogan,
a daughter, Kylie Madison,
Jan. 8, 2008.
Haden McInnis Milligan ’99,
a son, Benjamin Foster, Oct. 11,
2006, grandson of John McInnis
III ’67.
Hope Smith ’99, M ’00 and Chris
L. ’00 Sielicki, a daughter,
Allison Katherine,
March 15, 2008.
T. Brandt ’00, M ’02 and
Catherine Heatly ’01, M ’03
Gilbert, a daughter, Margaret
Salisbury, Nov. 8, 2007.
Rebecca Jelen Lee ’01, a daughter,
Caroline Elizabeth Jelen,
May 2, 2008.
Alecia Wheeler and Lucas C.
Clamp ’02, a son, Ian Lucas,
March 31, 2008, grandson of
Marlene Martin ’70, M ’73 and
R. Dean ’71, M ’73 Wheeler,
and great-grandson of Richard F.
Wheeler ’41.
Julie Thome ’02 and Otis W. ’03
Pickett, a daughter, Martha Jane
Caroline, May 5, 2008.
Andrew A. Poe ’03, a son,
Krisopher Allen, Jan. 5, 2008.
Welcome
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The Clemson Family
The Clemson Family
Passings
William A. Sanders Jr. ’32, Charleston
Henry B. Vaughan ’34, Marietta, Ga.
Horace D. Harby ’36, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Brooks E. Piercy ’37, Boiling Springs, N.C.
John H. Truluck Jr. ’38, Walterboro (For
a previous profile, see www.clemson.edu/
clemsonworld/profiles/0403truluck.htm.)
Clyde E. Woodall ’55, M ’56, Clemson,
retired Extension specialist
Thomas C. Warren ’04, M ’07,
Myrtle Beach
Jimmy D. Box Jr. ’56, Severn, Md.
Christopher A. Orr, agricultural
mechanization and business senior, Central
John M. Thomason ’58, Florence
Michael F. Dukes ’59, Beaumont, Texas
Zachary A. Juszkiewicz, prebusiness
sophomore, Franklin, Tenn.
J. Gail Stephens-Bosley ’59, M ’61,
Savannah, Ga.
Faculty and Staff
Edward H. “Ned” Lesesne ’41,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Jesse H. “Jerry” Hopkins Jr. ’60,
Pendleton
Curtis C. Graham Sr. ’42,
Mount Ulla, N.C.
Arvid Allen Anderson ’61, Oxnard, Calif.
Thomas C. Wright ’42, Ward
Charles C. Dixon Jr. ’62,
Mooresville, N.C.
Charles F. Carter Jr. ’43, West Columbia
Robert C. Jackson ’62, Greenville
Ben Langdon Griffin ’44, Easley
James H. Willcox Jr. ’62, Hopewell, Va.
Jared L. “Jerry” Johnson ’44, Charlotte,
N.C.
Lonnie L. Armstrong ’63, Prosperity
J. Roy Pennell Jr. ’44, Anderson.
Memorials may be made to the “J. Roy
Pennell, Jr. Endowed Scholarship, A Class
of ’44 Initiative,” payable to the Clemson
University Foundation, PO Box 1889,
Clemson, SC 29633-1889.
Johnson H. Cope ’48, Clemson
Robert William Dalton ’48, Greenville
Erston G. Sparks ’49, Clemson
Roy K. Frick ’50, Kettering, Ohio
Charles H. Heins ’50, Summerville
James R. Rochester ’51, Easley
Jack D. Hill ’52, Greenville
Harold E. Blackwell ’53, Union
Harry P. Varn Sr. ’53, Martinsville, Va.
Jerry E. Gore ’63, Marion
John R. Dyer ’64, Austin, Texas
Charles M. Hecker Jr. ’65, Lancaster
George Millon Plyler ’65, Greenville
I.M. Ibrahim M ’66, PhD ’70, Clemson
(See p. 48 for more.)
Alex G. “Jim” Gamble III ’68,
Knoxville, Tenn.
James R. Bennett ’71, Taylors
Sydney Doak Coker ’71, Summerton
Bruce W. Price Jr. ’72, Myrtle Beach
Jeanne E. Folsom, Clemson, retired parking
services data entry clerk
Gussie Cooper Greene, Charleston, former
Extension employee
George Herbert Heisel, Columbia, retired
compliance officer with livestock and
poultry health inspection department
Jeffrey Todd Hinson, Seneca, former
director of utilities
Margaret Hunnicutt, Central, retired
printing services manager
George L. McDaniel, Clemson,
environmental technician
Dewey M. McJunkins, Easley, retired
custodian
Gladys Duncan Miller, Clemson, retired
library technical assistant
Rodney K. Emory ’83, Seneca
Jon I. Team ’86, Anderson
Clemson memorials
Lucas C. Weekley ’53, Hampton
Jacqueline Raye Templeton ’86,
Waxhaw, N.C.
Charles E. Atkins ’54, Inman
Kenyon M. Drummond ’89, Woodruff
Claude Lowery Jr. ’55, Columbia
Gregory W. Denisowski ’94, Greenville
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Louise Odom Edwards, Clemson, former
first lady of Clemson. Memorials may
be made in her honor to the Clemson
University Foundation, PO Box 1889,
Clemson, SC 29633-1889. (See p. 24 for
more on her life.)
Sandra “Sandy” Alexander Murray,
Piedmont, retired development
administrative assistant
Lynn McLees Ray ’81, Greenville
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The Clemson Family
The Clemson Family
Clemson World Travelers
Breaking Ground for Clemson’s Fallen Heroes
Hawaii 1
*Talbert ’57 and *Beth Gerald during Hawaiian
travels.
A visible step in recognizing the
472 Clemson alumni who made the
ultimate sacrifice in service to their
country — and who have enabled us
to enjoy the freedoms we so richly
cherish — was taken Sept. 4 when
ground was broken for the Scroll of
Honor Memorial adjacent to the
East Gate of Memorial Stadium.
Caribbean 2
Melissa Hill Campbell, James M. Campbell ’59,
Mary Anne Campbell Dunn ’89, Reb Dunn ’82,
Brad Martin ’81, Sherry Campbell Martin ’82,
Mike Campbell ’87 and other family on “Me-Me
and Pop’s 50th Anniversary” cruise.
The Clemson Corps is proud to
announce that fundraising for
Project 1, design and construction
of Memorial Plaza, has been a
success. Your continued support is
needed to realize Project 2, linking
the plaza to the stadium. Please use
the envelope in this magazine, or
make a secure online contribution
at www.clemson.edu/isupportcu.
Specify that your gift is for the
Clemson Scroll of Honor.
Alaska
5
Vancouver
Bill ’74 and Mindy Higgs ’85 Taylor at the
Whistler Ski Resort north of Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada, a site for the 2010 Winter
Olympics.
Yanert Glacier 6
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Lee and Debbie Drummond Tomlinson ’75 on a
dog sled.
Al Faw Palace 10
Lt. Col. Floyd Harris ’78 in front of the Al Faw Palace
at Camp Victory in Baghdad.
*John Trice ’74, M ’76 and Kathy Tate on Yanert
Glacier near Denali National Park, Alaska.
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France
3
Bob ’59 and Betsy Cureton, and *Rufus ’59 and
*Mary Sherard during a trip to Paris, the French
Riviera and Provence Region.
Great Wall 4
*Avery ’65 and *Gloria Nelson with Hal ’90,
Cathy ’90, Abigail and Avery Nelson while
visiting Beijing and Shanghai.
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Ireland
7
*John ’75 with Jon Martin ’07 Croft during a
graduation trip through Tipperary, Ireland.
Canyonlands 11
Robert ’78 and Lee Anne Sattazahn in the
Southwest.
Baghdad Zoo 8
Veterinarians Maj. Bob Sindler ’75 and Lt. Col.
Freddie Zink ’82 at the Baghdad Zoo with a tiger
(in the background) they helped procure.
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Clemson World Travelers
Cozumel
12
Bob Barreto ’79 with his son Bob and a friend
underwater off the coast of Cozumel.
Andes
13
Yvonne Cooke Braught ’80 in the Andes during
vacation in Argentina and Chile.
The Clemson Family
Twin Bridges MO 16
John Babinski ’81, Phil Rash ’80, Toby Proctor
’81, Ted King ’80 and Mark Payne ’80 at Twin
Bridges, Mo., during a canoe trip.
China 17
John and Martha Grimm Babinski ’81 at the
Great Wall during a 25th wedding anniversary trip.
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Florence
Thomas Anand ’92, M ’97, *Steven Kellner ’85,
Andras Bende ’98 and Wayne Brewer ’95 at General
Electric’s Corporate University in Crontonville, N.Y.
Oahu
The Clemson Family
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Marge ’93, food science and human nutrition
professor, and Megan ’07 Condrasky in Florence,
Italy.
London
Simons Bryan Welter ’88 at Oahu, Hawaii, with
Diamond Head and Waikiki Beach in the background.
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Sarah Grant Graham ’93 in front of the London
Eye along the River Thames.
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Shanghai 32
Capt. Rachel White ’05 and the roaming
Clemson 101st Airborne Gnome over the skies of
Afghanistan. (The Clemson Gnome also travels
with Rachel’s husband, Capt. Kevin White ’03.)
Gage Couch ’05 at the Great Wall while working
in Beijing.
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Construction science and management professor and
chair Roger Liska and Ph.D. students from Tongi
University, a potential research partner for joint
projects with Clemson.
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Germany
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Brock ’08, Ross ’10 and Bobby ’80 Cooke at the
Eagle’s Nest in Berchestgaden.
New Zealand
15
Bruce and Anne McKinney Cottle ’80 at Fox
Glacier on their 25th anniversary.
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Croatia 18
Philippines
Tim ’83 and daughter Catherine ’11 Hasty at
Dubronvnik in Croatia.
Grand Canyon
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Karmen and Karen ’83 Kingsmore at the Grand
Canyon.
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Bill Young ’92 and Maria Delgado at
Corregidor Island.
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Sallie Leigh
Clemson World
114 Daniel Drive
Clemson, SC 29631-1520
email: sleigh@clemson.edu
Honduras 25
*Jeremy Petty ’93 with friends during a church
mission in Tierra Blanca.
St. Barts
26
Katie Whitman ’02 and Cleve Henderson ’03 on
St. Jean Beach, St. Barts.
Panama
29
Chadwick and Laura Gill ’06 Spearman at Coral
Lodge in Panama.
Belize
30
Iris Marlowe ’06 and Seth Spangler ’06 on
vacation in San Pedro, Belize, Central America.
Dominica 33
Sociology professor *Brenda Vander Mey with
Solomon Pascal, a community partner in Clemson’s
Creative Inquiry, service-learning project in
Dominica.
Golden Gate Bridge 31
Larsyn Runion ’07 and Nathan Carlson ’07 at the
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
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Creels awarded for
mega service
Commitment
Clemson receives $79.5 million in private support
Private gifts to the University totaled $79.5 million in the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
The sum includes $58.5 million to the Clemson University Foundation to support
academics and more than $21 million to IPTAY.
The foundation received $38.5 million in cash, $4.58 million in pledges and
$2.65 million in gifts-in-kind. These totals include $4.6 million raised for athletic
capital projects. Clemson also added $12.8 million to its inventory of planned gifts.
Clemson saw an increase in alumni donations, with 28.5 percent making
gifts. This percentage continues to keep Clemson ranked among the top in
the country in alumni participation. Alumni gave a total of $11.5 million to the
Clemson University Foundation, a 20 percent increase over last year’s amount.
The number of corporations making gifts to Clemson rose from last year’s 842 to
1,051.
Odom “first”
scholarship
Clemson’s FIRST
Program — to help first-generation college
students in reaching their career goals — has
received a boost from Henry Odom.
The Henry B. Odom III ’70 Scholarship
Endowment will provide scholarships for FIRST
Program students majoring in physics and
astronomy. He’s also established an annual award
to help students until the endowment generates
a budget. For more on the FIRST Program, go to
www.clemson.edu/clemsonworld/2008/summer/
article2.html or contact Sherry Dorris at first@
clemson.edu or (864) 656-1674.
Giving back through
faculty support
John DuPre ’80, global
manufacturing manager for
ExxonMobil Lubricants &
Specialties Co., with
President Barker.
ExxonMobil multiplies gifts
ExxonMobil has given Clemson nearly $218,000 to match gifts, three-to-one, that
its employees and retirees made to the University last year.
In the past six years, its Educational Matching Gift Program has given more than
$839,000 to Clemson.
Much of the funds go to the ExxonMobil Employees Endowed Chair in
Engineering, recently filled by mechanical engineering professor Georges Fadel.
Other support goes to class projects, endowments in the College of Engineering
and Science, Eugene T. Moore School of Education, Jungaleers Endowment Fund,
School of Architecture, University Libraries, Air Force ROTC scholarships, Brooks
Center for the Performing Arts and Clemson Fund.
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Mechanical engineering alumnus David
Brown has established a $100,000
endowment in honor of Clemson faculty.
The David A. Brown ’66 Endowed Scholar
Position will provide support for an
outstanding mechanical engineering faculty
member.
“Clemson has always been known for the
quality of its undergraduate teachers,” says
Brown. “Having spent time at Clemson as a
married student [to the late Carol Kimbrough
’65] where both of us earned our degrees and
paid for our education, we experienced the
caring nature of the faculty and the local
Clemson family. This has prompted my desire
to give back to Clemson in a manner that
supports the faculty.”
Brown serves on the Clemson University
Foundation board. He’s a past member of
the Alumni National Council and earned a
master’s degree from the University of Florida
in nuclear engineering. His company, United
Mechanical Corp., is located in Charlotte.
Jim ’60 and Carolyn Willis ’61
Creel of Myrtle Beach recently
received Clemson’s Institutional
Advancement Award for their
tremendous support.
Jim has been an IPTAY
representative, president of the
Horry County Clemson Club
and president of the Alumni
Jim and Carolyn Creel with Jim Jr., Alicia Creel Bame
National Council. He’s served
and Scott Bame
on the Board of Visitors and the
College of Health, Education and Human Development advisory
board. He’s a member of the Clemson University Foundation
(CUF) board of directors, chairman of its development committee
and a member of the executive committee. He’s also on the board
of the Finance Corp., the governing body of the Conference
Center and Inn complex at Clemson.
Carolyn was Clemson’s first majorette (on a football
scholarship!) and featured twirler. She’s served on the CUF board
and was the first president of the CUF Real Estate Foundation.
She’s been a member of the President’s Home Renovation
Committee, the Commission for the Future of Clemson
University, the Board of Visitors and the Women’s Advisory
Council. She’s currently on the College of Health, Education and
Human Development advisory board.
The Creels have supported many endowments to academics
and athletics. They were leaders in the WestZone capital
campaign, and, in 1988, led a challenge campaign in which
they matched the gifts of new donors to the Clemson Fund.
The Creels’ children are also alumni: Jim Jr. ’86 and Alicia
Creel Bame ’90.
From Sherwin-Williams, James Hembree, Kerri Rodgers, Lori Weaver, Alan Stanley
Corporate Tiger Day at WestZone
Clemson University Corporate Development teamed up with
the Michelin® Career Center and University Athletics to
host Corporate Tiger Day for hundreds of regional industry
representatives.
The event energized current corporate partners and
introduced potential supporters to all that Clemson has to
offer: whether recruiting skilled graduates through the Michelin
Career Center; partnering with world-class faculty on research
projects; or exposing their brand to the Clemson family and
thousands of annual visitors.
Dean Gulari creates endowment
Clemson’s dean of the College of Engineering and Science, Esin
Gulari, has established a Dean’s Leadership and Service Award
Endowment with a gift of $25,000. The endowment provides awards
for leadership and service to faculty and department chairs within
the college. Gulari also made an additional gift to create an annual
award this year.
The first award has been granted to chemical engineering
professor Charles Gooding in recognition of his work and service as
president of the Faculty Senate.
Gulari was named dean in July 2006. She previously served
as the department chairwoman of Chemical Engineering and
Materials Science at Wayne State University and as director of
the Chemical and Transport Systems Division and acting assistant
director for engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Thought. Action. Change.
On November 6, 1886, University founder
Thomas Green Clemson executed the power of his
pen, willing his estate, land and resources for the
establishment of a “high seminary of learning” for
the people of South Carolina.
Clemson University began as a thought, and, with
one simple action, was given the opportunity to
become an international research institution that
inspires students, drives economic development
and stimulates change.
You can follow in Thomas Green Clemson’s footsteps
and wield the power of the pen, leaving behind a
legacy for future generations. Your forethought
today could define the University’s tomorrow.
For more information, contact JoVanna King,
senior director of gift and estate planning,
at (864) 656-0663 or jovanna@clemson.edu.
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Taps
we’re behind you
Goodbye, Coach
I.M. Ibrahim, father of Clemson
soccer, 1941-2008
Ibrahim came to Clemson as
a chemistry graduate student,
earning his master’s degree in
1966 and Ph.D. in 1970. In 1967,
he brought soccer to the University
as a varsity sport, and the rest is a
Clemson legacy.
During his tenure (1967-1994),
he led the Tigers to two NCAA
National Championships and 11
ACC titles. Upon retirement, he
embarked on a neighborhood
business in sportswear and gifts.
His stores have become traditional
stops for fans, students and
returning alumni.
He’s pictured here as he was
inducted into the Clemson Athletic
Hall of Fame.
MARK CRAMMER
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© 2008 The Coca-Cola Company. “Coca-Cola” and the Contour Bottle are registered trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company.
Clemson says goodbye to I.M.
Ibrahim — Clemson alumnus,
professor, famed soccer coach and
businessman.
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