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Shell Rings and Sea Turtles
With a click of your TV remote, you
can explore the natural world with
Clemson experts.
Every nine seconds See what Clemson is doing to reverse the
economic and social drain of high school
dropouts.
The ‘Brain Coach’
Col. Rick Robbins was motivating
Clemson student athletes long before
the era of academic advisers.
Passing it on
Walter Cox’s Clemson legacy is
still going strong.
Algae’s secret garden
There’s more than green to this
great natural resource.
‘Place Makers’
Discover a one-of-a-kind program to create
tomorrow’s most inspired communities.
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Cover photo: Newly renovated Gantt Circle in front of
Clemson’s landmark Tillman Hall, by Patrick Wright
On this page: fall semester orientation, photo by Craig Mahaffey
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President’s View
Executive Editor
Dave Dryden
Reflections on national
spotlight
Art Director
Judy Morrison
Editor
Liz Newall
Classes Editor &
Advertising Director
Sallie Leigh
(864) 656-7897
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it
was the epoch of incredulity. …”
Contributors
Dale Cochran
Debbie Dunning
Catherine Sams
News Services
Publications and Promotion
Charles Dickens opened his great novel, A Tale of Two Cities, with these lines, which could
have been written in any era because they describe every age.
They certainly resonated with me on Sept. 1, 2006. In the span of a few hours, I attended
the campus memorial service for Tiffany Marie Souers and the First Friday parade. We
grieved the senseless murder of a promising student; then we celebrated the beginning of
a promising new football season.
It was a hard transition. Yet as a university community, we managed to do both because
we knew Tiffany would have wanted it that way.
Earlier in the summer, we lost Walter Cox. I said at his memorial service, “No one ever
loved Clemson more and demanded less in return than Walter Cox.”
‘The students
come first.’
Then, a few weeks later, we learned that Clemson is now a top-30 national public university, according to the U.S.News & World Report rankings. This is the most respected and most
credible of the various higher education lists because it combines hard, statistical data
with softer “reputation” scores. It’s more than a survey; they do their homework.
Last year, Clemson gained ground because of measures that matter most to students and
parents — smaller classes, lower faculty-to-student ratios and higher graduation rates.
And so, the life of a university rolls on. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
and we rose in national stature because of a lesson Walter Cox taught us long ago: “The
students come first.”
Clemson was in the national spotlight — and in the New York Times — this fall because of
two major stories.
Football student-athlete Ramon (Ray Ray) McElrathbey’s determination to raise his
11-year-old brother, Fahmarr, captured the nation’s imagination and inspired millions.
With the help of the ACC and the NCAA, we were able to get a waiver of the strictest
rules governing scholarship athletes so that we might provide him reasonable and appropriate help.
The other story spotlighted the Clemson University International Center for Automotive
Research (CU-ICAR) and the unprecedented support we have received from automotive
industry partners as well as the state of South Carolina.
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Photographers
Patrick Wright
Craig Mahaffey
President Barker is pictured with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (left) and Secretary of Education Margaret
Spellings during the U.S. University Presidents Summit on International Education earlier this year.
The first class of seven Ph.D. students in automotive engineering began studying on campus this fall.
Next year, they will move to the new Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center, which is
under construction now, and a new crop of master’s and doctoral degree candidates will join them.
This level of national attention, however, invites greater scrutiny, and the New York Times seemed to
many to imply that our partnership with industry is a new and menacing threat to academic freedom and
institutional integrity at Clemson.
In fact, Clemson has a 100-year history of working closely, with integrity, with industries ranging from
agriculture to biomaterials to textiles. Economic development was a part of Thomas Green Clemson’s
vision and has always been a part of our mission as a land-grant university.
University Officials
President
James F. Barker
Board of Trustees
Leon J. Hendrix Jr.,
chairman; John J. Britton,
vice chairman; Bill L. Amick,
Lawrence M. Gressette Jr.,
Thomas C. Lynch Jr.,
Louis B. Lynn,
Patricia Herring McAbee,
Leslie G. McCraw,
E. Smyth McKissick III,
Thomas B. McTeer Jr.,
Robert L. Peeler,
William C. Smith Jr.,
Joseph D. Swann
© 2006 Clemson University
Seeking partners, seeking collaborators or seeking input is one thing. However, ceding control is another
thing altogether.
As alumni, you can be confident that Clemson has not and will not give up control over our core academic enterprise. We listen to many voices, but it’s the sole responsibility of the University and its faculty
to determine such things as hiring, promotion, tenure, curriculum and content.
BMW, Michelin and Timken — known internationally for excellence in engineering — have chosen
to partner with us because of this independence and strength, and because of the quality of our faculty,
students and graduates.
The foundation of this quality is academic integrity — a core value at Clemson.
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A
Developing the
economy
Rise in U.S. News ranking
U.S.News & World Report this year ranked Clemson as a top-30 public institution among
the nation’s public doctoral-granting universities. This is a move up from 34th last year.
Clemson is again ranked as South Carolina’s top public university.
The latest report shows improvements in key educational areas, such as class size,
graduation rate and quality of students. This year, Clemson reported that 39 percent
of classes had fewer than 20 students and just 10 percent of classes had 50 or more.
Clemson’s graduation rate rose from 72 percent to 75 percent. This year, 45 percent of
Clemson’s freshmen graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class,
which is up from 38 percent.
In addition, Clemson is recognized as having an “outstanding example of an academic
program believed to lead to student success” in its Writing Across the Curriculum
program.
Top-20 civil engineering
A
CCORDING TO THE
latest U.S. News ranking,
Clemson’s civil engineering department is 14th among the nation’s
public doctoral-granting engineering schools. The department is
ranked 24th in a list that includes
private and public schools.
National competitions and firsthand experience are a large part of Clemson civil engineering students’ success. Clemson
student teams have won championship titles in the National Concrete Canoe Competition
and the National Student Steel Bridge Competition, and the Institute of Transportation
Engineers recognized Clemson with the 2006 Outstanding Student Chapter Award.
The Clemson Wind Tunnel, a facility for studying the effects of high winds on low-rise
buildings, serves an internationally recognized program whose experts testify before
Congressional subcommittees researching hurricane preparedness. The department is also
home to the Asphalt Rubber Technology Service, which promotes, designs and tests the
use of recycled scrap tires in rubberized asphalt and other civil infrastructure applications.
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Bernanke at Leadership SC
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke,
a native of Dillon, returned to South Carolina
in August for a homecoming celebration
hosted by Leadership South Carolina, a
Clemson public service.
Bernanke spoke to a gathering of business
executives, community leaders and government officials on the U.S. economic outlook
at the Palmetto Expo Center in Greenville.
Leadership South Carolina, now in
its 27th year, is the state’s oldest and most
recognized leadership development program.
It provides gifted and highly motivated South
Carolinians an opportunity to advance their
leadership qualities while broadening their
understanding of issues facing the state.
Each year, approximately 55 individuals are
selected through a competitive process for
participation.
For more on Leadership South Carolina, go
to www.leadershipsouthcarolina.org.
The Economic Development Administration
(EDA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce
has selected Clemson for its S.C. EDA
University Center. Clemson will receive
$488,000 over three years to carry out economic development projects throughout the state.
The center will be administered by the
Regional Economic Development Research
Laboratory in the University’s applied economics and statistics department and the Clemson
Institute for Economic and Community
Development.
Research and technical assistance efforts
will concentrate on the development of
industry clusters in the state, the leveraging of
the University’s technical expertise to promote
entrepreneurship and business development,
and the assistance of work force development
organizations in preparing workers for the
knowledge-based economy.
$2.5 MILLION GIFT FROM GLOBAL PACKAGING LEADER SONOCO
Products Co. has launched the proposed Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and
Graphics at Clemson.
The gift forges a powerful learning and economic development resource for South
Carolina, creating the opportunity to plan an institute that will be the only one of its
kind in the nation.
The institute will provide resources for students in packaging, printing and allied
fields. It will promote consumer and environmentally superior packaging design development, printing-imaging technologies and printing-packaging systems.
The funds will help pay for construction of a facility to house the institute.
Commitments
of gifts-inkind will help
provide technology support.
Program
leaders foresee
the need for
three endowed
chairs to teach
and guide
the institute,
which will be
self-sustaining.
Pictured at
the presentation are, from
left, packaging
science major Meredith Isbell, Clemson President Jim Barker, graphic communications
major Amy Etheridge and Sonoco Products Co. President Harris E. DeLoach Jr.
CU-ICAR’s first class
T
HE CLEMSON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR
Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) has begun “producing” its most important product — a highly skilled work
force. The first class of students in Clemson’s new graduate
program in automotive research is under way.
Students are studying on the main campus while
construction on the Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate
Engineering Center is completed on the CU-ICAR campus
in Greenville.
Program director Thomas Kurfess, BMW Endowed
Chair in Manufacturing Integration, says that at full
production the program will graduate approximately 30
students with master’s degrees and five to 10 with doctoral
degrees each year.
For more on CU-ICAR and Clemson’s automotive
engineering graduate program, go to www.cu-icar.com.
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Simply the best
Smart freshmen!
Clemson’s chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta (ALD) has earned
the national honor society’s highest award, the Order of the
Torch, one of only five chapters in the country to do so. ALD
is for students who maintain a 3.4 or higher GPA and are in
the top 20 percent of their class during their first year in higher
education. For more on Clemson’s chapter, go to people.clemson.
edu/~ald.
Academic parade
Clemson’s 114th academic year began with
the Victor Hurst Convocation, an opening
processional of faculty, staff and student
leaders.
Gift for good health
T
HE DUKE ENDOWMENT, ONE OF THE NATION’S
largest private foundations, has announced a three-year
$21 million grant to Health Sciences South Carolina (HSSC).
HSSC is
a statewide
collaborative
of Clemson,
the Medical
University and
the University
of South
Carolina with
the Greenville
Hospital System,
Palmetto Health
and Spartanburg
Regional
Healthcare
System working
to improve citizens’ health and
quality of life.
The grant,
the largest the
foundation has
ever made, will
support the establishment of the Center of Healthcare Quality and
Clinical Effectiveness and will enable HSSC to develop and implement Centers of Economic Excellence Endowed Chairs programs.
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Exzellent
History and German major Samuel Scurry has won a
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst scholarship to
study in Germany for a full academic year. He’s one of only 62
undergraduates from 50 universities in the United States and
Canada to receive the award.
Centered on success
Clemson’s Academic Success Center was named the
Outstanding Supplemental Instruction Program during the
International Conference on Supplemental Instruction in
Sweden. Clemson honor graduate Anne “Katie” Abole was
named Supplemental Instruction Leader of the Year for her
work in the center. The center serves students as one of the first
lines of defense against withdrawals and failures, especially in
the areas of math and sciences. It provides tutoring, additional
instruction and a variety of academic skills workshops. For more
information, go to www.clemson.edu/asc.
SME fellow
Mechanical engineering professor Thomas Kurfess, BMW
Endowed Chair in Manufacturing Integration and director
of the Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center
at CU-ICAR, has been named a Fellow of the Society of
Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the world’s leading professional society serving the manufacturing industry. One of only four
2006 SME Fellows, Kurfess is globally recognized for his work
in precision manufacturing systems, advanced process control,
metrology and his service to the manufacturing community.
Venice exhibit
Architecture professors Doug Hecker and Martha Skinner
were selected to exhibit this fall in the 2006 Venice Biennale
in Venice, Italy, one of the most prestigious cultural institutions
in the world. Their chosen proposal — Dry-In House: an
Affordable Mass Customized House for the Reconstruction of
New Orleans — allows families to participate in the design of
their customized homes to get them back to their home sites
as quickly as possible and into a “dried-in” shell that can be
finished and further customized over time. The process uses an
interactive Web site connected to CNC-controlled fabrication.
 
Great advice
Clemson Extension consumer horticulturist and state Master
Gardener coordinator Bob Polomski has received national
recognition for helping gardeners with their problems on the
radio. Polomski received the 2006 Garden Writers Association
Silver Award of Achievement for his work with the “Your Day”
radio program’s call-in gardening show. “Your Day,” produced
by Clemson University Radio Productions for S.C. Educational
Radio, reaches listeners across a tri-state area.
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Senior Platoon pride
Members of Clemson’s Alumni Senior Platoon joined in the
University’s annual First Friday Parade, kicking off the 2006
football season.
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Winning formula
Clemson’s Formula SAE team shows sponsors what their work is all about during
Sponsor Day.
The team takes
part in the Society of
Automotive Engineers
annual international
collegiate competition
each year, in which
students design, build
and race a miniature
open-wheel Indy race
car. They also make a business presentation, marketing the car to the average
weekend racer, and they submit a professional cost report of the entire manufacturing process.
Clemson Formula SAE has a record of outstanding performances in the competition with three top-10 finishes. Students raise funding for the team by seeking
corporate sponsors and getting individual donations. For more on Clemson’s
Formula SAE, visit the Web at www.ces.clemson.edu/~fsae.
pARTy time!
Lee Gallery visitors surround Henry Bauer as
he shares stories about how he collected various
works of art in the exhibition “The Henry Bauer
Collection: Ceramics and Bronze from Alfred NY
and Beyond.” His ceramic collection is considered
one of the most important in the United States.
The Friends of Lee Gallery, volunteers dedicated to the advancement of the visual arts at the
University, hosted a “pARTy” during the Bauer
exhibit to welcome new faculty to Clemson. For more
on the Lee Gallery, call (864) 656-3883 or visit the
Web at www.clemson.edu/caah/leegallery.
’Paws to the
claws’
W
HILE IN BOSTON
for the ClemsonBoston College football
game in September, 240
Tiger fans put their “paws
to the claws” at a lobster
bake sponsored by the
Clemson Alumni Association. From left are Nancy and David Morrow, Beth and
Witt Langstaff, and Rhonda Collins.
Clemson fans also made an impression with their flood of $2 bills stamped
with Tiger Paws. The Boston Herald ran a story the week after the game, “Flood of
Clemson orange has BC thinking green” (Sept. 13), on how Clemson showed its
economic impact during the visit.
Playing for Habitat
Members of the Clemson University Marching Band
(Tiger Band) put down their flutes, drums, trumpets and
sheet music and picked up saws, drills and hammers to
“make music” by working on a Habitat for Humanity
project.
The band also performed selections from the hit
Broadway musical and movie RENT— the story of
people living in poverty — during the Clemson vs. UNC
football game in an effort to bring awareness to the
problem of homelessness and poverty in our community.
For more on the University’s Habitat chapter, go to
people.clemson.edu/~habitat/index.php.
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T
he exotic-sounding shell rings are just the beginning for
McMillan and other Clemson specialists. “Shell Rings — A
4,000 Year Old Mystery” is the pilot episode of “Expeditions
with Patrick McMillan,” a series of half-hour shows picked up by
ETV and ETV’s South Carolina Channel (exclusively on cable),
airing in January 2007 on Sunday nights.
A sneak peek of the first episode features naturalist McMillan,
host and co-creator of the series, trekking through the salt marshes
of South Carolina. He and guest expert Richard Porcher, along with
guest explorer Nancy Neal, chat about fiddler crabs, cord grass and
Native American shell rings.
In accessible documentary format, the show explores various
regions of the Carolinas with an emphasis on the areas’ unique
treasures. They encounter the endangered wood stork, some bottlenose dolphins, various insects, a mouth-numbing “toothache tree”
and other wonders.
“There’s a growing disconnect with the natural world in this age
of video games and cell phones,” says McMillan. “The intricacy and
interactions of the tremendous and valuable biodiversity that exist
in South Carolina and the Southeast are often underappreciated
and misunderstood.”
McMillan hopes that the adventuresome style of the episodes will
encourage residents to develop a deep appreciation for the value of
the state’s natural diversity.
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Host Patrick McMillan and explorer Nancy Neal
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hile walking past some
posters in the biological sciences
department, Patrick McMillan had
a moment of revelation. Pointing to
an aerial photograph of an Indian
shell ring, he exclaimed, “Now
that’s a show!’”
PATRICK WRIGHT
Shell Rings
and Sea Turtles
McMillan and Neal in Dominica with guest expert Elvis Stedman (left)
The “Expeditions” pilot is one of the outreach programs of
Clemson’s Public Service Activities. It was directed, produced and
co-created by Tom Neal, a 19-year University veteran whose media
skills have landed him several awards, most recently honoring his
work on the project “Ideas Changing the World” for Clemson’s
bioengineering department. Neal is the production manager for
Video Production Services.
David White, editor and videographer on the project, is senior
producer and director of Clemson’s Video Production Services.
During his 20 years at Clemson, he has earned many honors
including several Telly awards, the premier honor for cable TV
commercials and programs as well as top video and film productions.
McMillan has worked as a professional naturalist/biologist
throughout the Southeast and the Neotropics. Before joining
Clemson, he was a curator for the N.C. Museum of Natural
Sciences, an ecologist for the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill and a plant ecologist for Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami,
Fla.
His research has been featured in National Wildlife and South
Carolina Wildlife magazines. His move to Clemson was largely
prompted by his love of the University’s location: “I can travel and
do research in the coastal plain and Blue Ridge Mountains in the
same week! For a botanist, there could be no better location — right
in the middle of places I love.”
Upcoming episodes of “Expeditions” will include many other
natural wonders, some unique to the Upstate. An episode focused on
leatherback sea turtles promises insights into the creatures’ “secretive and mysterious” lives, with particular attention to the animals’
thousand-mile trek to lay their eggs.
Another one aims to help audiences gain more understanding
about snakes, noting, “The real biology of these species is often just
as fascinating as the urban legends.” Other segments highlight the
great rainfall, volcanoes, plant life and ecosystem of the Dominican
rainforests, where Clemson maintains the Archbold Tropical
Research and Education Center. Episodes on carnivorous plants and
salamander “mimicry” are also being filmed for the series, a nod to
McMillan’s admission that “there’s nowhere I’d rather be than in a
coastal plain savannah surrounded by Venus’ flytraps and pitcher
plants.”
Videographer David White
Not only does the show open doors for students to gain learning
and research experience, but it also shows McMillan’s commitment
to excellence. “I attempt to convey my enthusiasm and wonder
for these natural marvels to the audience in the hope that they
understand the importance of research institutions such as Clemson
that tirelessly explore the intricacy of life.”
Through the lens of “Expeditions with Patrick McMillan,” the
natural world of South Carolina becomes exotic and fascinating,
and viewers will be amazed at what can be discovered in their own
backyards.
For more information, contact Tom Neal at [email protected] or call
864-656-4246 or visit the Web at www.clemson.edu/expeditions. For
viewing times, refer to www.scetv.org for local listings. c
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R
arely does America’s school dropout problem grab headlines like Hurricane Katrina.
Yet the impact of this national challenge
has been every bit as devastating to the lives of
millions of individual Americans, their families
and to our society and economy.
A
Every Nine
Seconds
by Jay Smink, Sam Drew and
Marty Duckenfield
cross the country, every nine seconds a
student drops out of school. In South
Carolina, this translates into a shocking
annual high school graduation rate of only
59 percent. The nationwide average is 73.9
percent.
Graduation rate, a powerful indicator of
school effectiveness, tells policy-makers and
practitioners that there is indeed a problem
with our educational system, a system
designed for another century.
Young people who drop out do not just disappear.
Their dropping out has a lasting impact on
themselves, their parents and siblings, and
their future families as they become adults
and have their own children.
Economically, individuals who drop out of
school are hard pressed to find good-paying
jobs and lack opportunities to advance
a career. The failure to graduate more
students is impeding our overall economy.
For example:
• U.S. companies lose nearly $40 billion annually because of illiteracy.
• High school graduates, on the aver-
age, earn $9,245 more per year than high school dropouts.
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Consider also the communities and states
where there are many individuals without
high school diplomas. The impact on a
community’s quality of life is obvious. The
state government’s extra expenditures in
welfare, prison and loss of income from a
reduced tax base intensify the problem.
Some states, like South Carolina, are also
noting the effect on recruiting industry
to foster economic development. New
industries generally need a high performance
work force, a well-educated population
with a minimum education of a high school
diploma. And 21st century workers need to
have additional skills and knowledge from a
two- or four-year college.
For 20 years, the National Dropout
Prevention Center (NDPC) at Clemson
University has focused on the challenging
issue of preventing students from leaving
school before achieving a high school diploma. Over those 20 years, the importance
of that goal has intensified as society has
changed; however, the reasons that students
drop out have stayed the same.
The top reasons remain that the student
didn’t like school, was already failing,
couldn’t get along with teachers, couldn’t
keep up with work, got pregnant, felt like
she or he didn’t belong.
many of his peers and get involved in drugs
and other crime. In fact, 75 percent of prison
inmates are high school dropouts.
The S.C. Legislature has boldly stepped forth in
connecting the dots between an improved graduation
rate and economic development. The Education
and Economic Development Act (2005) is
a visionary piece of legislation that focuses
on improving academic achievement, career
choices, work skills and the graduation rate
of our students through a variety of effective
strategies.
•High school dropouts are 3.5 times more likely than graduates to be arrested in their lifetime.
•The estimated tax revenue loss from every male, age 25 to 34, who didn’t complete high school is approximately $944 billion, with cost increases to public welfare and crime at $24 billion.
Consider the situation of the high school
dropout. If female, chances are she’s a
single teenage parent with responsibilities
for herself and her child. Her lack of skills
and education means unemployment or
low-income jobs. The scarcity of affordable,
quality day care compounds the problem,
and her children may easily repeat the
cycle. One of the highest predictors of dropping out is the mother’s level of education.
A male dropout likewise has few job options
and career opportunities. If he has a family,
he must work more than one job to pay the
bills. He may succumb to the temptations of
The 15 Effective Strategies that the NDPC
has promoted from their 20 years of research
is an important element supporting the
legislation’s effort to combat the dropout
issue. These strategies include a school/community perspective, early interventions,
basic core strategies and making the most of
instruction.
Other states, like South Carolina, have or
are beginning to comprehend the important
connection between high school graduation
rates and a strong economic environment.
At Clemson, we can be proud that the
National Dropout Prevention Center has
provided a road map toward success for one
of the greatest challenges of our times.
To learn more about the 15 Effective Strategies or
how you as a parent, business administrator or civic
leader can help, go online at www.dropoutprevention.org. c
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A Clemson Tradition
50 Years in the Making.
E n t e r Y o u r F a v o r i t e B l u e C h e e s e R e c i p e To d a y !
Clemson University is celebrating the 50th anniversary of making
the best domestic blue cheese you’ll ever taste, and we’d like to
invite you to join in. Share your most delicious Clemson blue
cheese traditions by sending us your favorite recipes. The best
recipe will win a specially selected gift basket of blue cheese.*
Of course, to make your delicious creation, you’ll need plenty
of Clemson Blue Cheese on hand. And that’s easy! Simply call
1-800-599-0181. Plus, when you’re on campus, you can stop by
the Eastside Food Court in the Hendrix Student Center to pick
some up in person.
When you make over 24,000 pounds of blue cheese every year
like we do, there are bound to be lots of delicious ways to enjoy it.
Send in your favorite recipe today!
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WORLD
14 *Contest
dates:
11/13/06 – 1/13/07.
Send entries via mail:
Clemson Blue Cheese
Attn: Missy Smith
ARAMARK
PO Drawer 429
Clemson, SC 29633
Via email:
[email protected]
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CEMETERY
CHRONICLES
The
‘Brain
Coach’
by Nate Manning ’94
PATRICK WRIGHT
Richard C. Robbins,
1921-1980
Cemetery Chronicles is a series on the
honored inhabitants of Clemson’s Woodland
Cemetery, better known as Cemetery Hill.
For more information about the cemetery’s
historical value, contact Matt Dunbar at
[email protected].
For more Cemetery Chronicles, visit the
Web at cworld.clemson.edu/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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I
t’s no secret that Vickery Hall has been a crucial factor in the record-setting performances of Clemson student athletes in recent years. Since Vickery Hall opened in
1991 as the first facility solely dedicated to student-athlete enrichment, its programs
have been widely recognized and emulated by other athletic departments across the
country. But long before there was a Vickery Hall, Clemson was already a leader among
its peers in supporting and advising student athletes off the field. That’s because Clemson was
fortunate enough to have Col. Rick Robbins.
Robbins was born in 1921 in Austin, Texas. Destined for a career in the military, he began
his studies at Kemper Military Academy and later enrolled at the University of Texas. In 1942,
Robbins joined the Armed Forces and served his country during World War II in Gen. George
Patton’s Army. He became one of very few soldiers who served on two fronts during the war
— first in Europe and then in Okinawa, Japan. After the war, he returned to UT, graduating
in 1948.
Over the next 20 years, Robbins served in several posts, including two tours of duty in
Korea. Between his Korean tours, from 1961
to 1964, he was assigned as a military history
professor at Clemson. During those years, he
fell in love with the students, the University
and the town where he knew he wanted to
make his home. It was also during those years
that he began his work with the Clemson
Athletic Department as a volunteer coach for
P. Wee Greenfield’s track team. This set the
foundation for his role as an adviser.
After retiring from his distinguished military career in 1967, Robbins became the full-time adviser for Clemson athletes. The sign on
his desk read that he was the “Brain Coach,” but he was much more than that. Robbins was
highly respected (and somewhat feared). His daily routine began by driving around campus
in his Corvair, policing the 8 a.m. classes, making sure student athletes were all present or
accounted for. Throughout the mornings, he would meet with them to see how they were
progressing academically and to help them find tutors or extra help when needed.
His afternoons were spent on the practice fields, providing some “Texan motivation”
when needed. He also started an organized weightlifting program for the football team. The
evenings found Robbins enforcing study hall attendance and good study habits. As many
Clemson students can attest, the Cooper Library has several nooks and crannies that make for
a quiet, comfortable place to rest, but Robbins would walk around the library in his trademark
cowboy boots and put those boots to good use if he found a player napping under the stairs.
In addition to academic support, the colonel was the person to whom student athletes
could turn for advice and counseling. He was a parent to some, a friend to others and a trusted
adviser to all. In the 1960s and 1970s, Robbins acted as an agent for several players who were
drafted into the NFL. At that time, very few athletes had agents or advisers to help them
negotiate, so the colonel would fly in and sit by the player’s side as he came to terms with his
new team.
Clemson student athletes weren’t the only ones who benefited from Col. Robbins’ guidance. He was instrumental in the formation of the Greek system at Clemson, serving as the
chapter adviser to the Sigma Alpha Zeta local fraternity, which became the first national
fraternity on Clemson’s campus — Pi Kappa Alpha.
Robbins died suddenly in June 1980. He left behind his wife, Clare, and two sons, Dick ’76
and Tom ’82. It was said that the bright shade of Clemson Orange lost a bit of its luster the
day he passed away. However, that luster can still be found in the many great stories about
Col. Robbins and in the memories of the thousands of students and athletes whose lives he
touched. He was inducted into the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982. c
Nate ’94 and Stephanie Rayburn ’96 Manning live in Greenville with their son, Will. Nate was the proud
recipient of the Col. Rick Robbins Scholarship as an undergraduate member of Pi Kappa Alpha.
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Passing it on
by Jack
McKenzie and Liz Newall
There is “something in these
hills” that within
our soul instills,
A dream for
those who’ll
soon be passing
through.
W
— Joel Brawley,
Alumni Distinguished Professor and Class of ’39 Award for Excellence recipient
Walter T. Cox Jr. ’39, who passed away in June, lived life to the fullest at
Clemson. He experienced the roles of student athlete, coach, adviser, dean,
vice president, president, friend, advocate and ambassador. But his greatest
role, in fact his legacy, was his abiding attention to students. His acts of caring
inspired those he helped to help others, multiplying genuine concern and
generosity throughout six decades of Clemson students and alumni.
This caring quality is epitomized by his bronze statue sitting on a bench near the Student Union
where a student once left a note that read, “Thank you for letting me talk with you.”
Cox enrolled in Clemson in 1935. As a student, he was a company commander in the Cadet Corps,
a letterman in the Block “C” Club and an All-State guard on the football team. Except for a year of
military service during World War II, he never left.
Reminders of him are all around campus. He was inducted into Clemson’s Athletic Hall of Fame
in 1984. In fact, one of the first IPTAY athletic endowments was anonymously named in his honor.
The Walter T. Cox Jr. Plaza in front of the Student Union was dedicated in 1998. Walter T. Cox
Boulevard, the portion of S.C. Route 93 that passes through the Clemson University campus, was
named for him in 2002.
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More than 100,000 students have enrolled
at Clemson since Walter Cox first stepped
on the campus. He felt a kinship with
them all. And he made a difference in the
lives of many.
Phil Prince ’49, a former president of the
University and longtime Clemson leader,
fondly recalls playing football with Cox as
his line coach. Later, as president, Prince
saw him from a different perspective.
“What really made Dean Cox so special
was his longevity and the number of young
people he counseled through all of those
years,” says Prince. “He helped so many
people get into Clemson and then stay
at Clemson and then stay in touch with
Clemson.”
One of those students was John Walker
’58, whom Cox, as Dean of Students,
helped remain in school through a difficult
period in his life. Today, Walker is both
a successful businessman and a generous
Clemson benefactor. He made a major
pledge in 2001 to help build the John E.
Walker Department of Economics into
one of the best in the nation.
The golf course at the Clemson Conference
Center and Inn is named for his father. In
addition to being a favorite attraction to
visitors and returning alumni, the Walker
Course serves as a laboratory for Clemson
students and the home of the nationally
ranked Tiger golf team.
Another student he helped was the late
Robert H. Brooks ’60. Brooks arrived
at Clemson with a picnic lunch, a high
school transcript, a dollar or two in his
pocket and no idea how he was going to
pay for college. Then he met Dean Cox,
who helped him secure a loan and get
through the enrollment process.
After graduation, Brooks went on to make
his mark on the world through entrepreneurship, multinational business success
and philanthropy. He founded Eastern
Foods, which launched Naturally Fresh
Inc., a company that has provided internships and employment to many Clemson
students. In addition, as chairman of
Hooters of America Inc., he took the
regional chain to an international status.
At Clemson, he was principal benefactor
for Clemson’s Brooks Center for the
Performing Arts and for the interdisciplinary Brooks Institute for Sports Science,
which helped pave the way for the
Clemson University International Center
for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR). He
was a major corporate sponsor, donor and
supporter of Clemson’s athletics program.
Brooks’ experience with Dean Cox helped
set the stage for his life. In an earlier
interview he said, “That’s what Clemson is
all about to me — taking a personal interest in students and helping them achieve
their potential.”
Another alumnus, Jerry Stafford ’63, says
Cox provided the right combination of
respect and guidance for students during
the turbulent 1960s. Stafford was editor of
The Chronicle, the student-run, often controversial literary magazine. “Dean Cox
provided invaluable influence in helping
us maintain the right balance between
being informative and entertaining while
maintaining good taste and effective
representation of the Clemson spirit.”
Today, Stafford is vice president for corporate communications for Santee Cooper,
the state-owned electric and water utility,
another organization upon which Walter
Cox has had a major impact. Cox served
for 21 years on its board of directors. In
1996, Santee Cooper donated funds for
a 6,000-square-foot facility, the Walter
T. Cox Center, at the R.M. Cooper 4-H
Leadership Center. Clemson’s Youth
Learning Institute and the Cooperative
Extension Service have helped countless
S.C. youth through the Cooper facilities.
There are many other untold stories. Too
many to share and some we may never
know. But one thing is clear; a person’s act
of giving is powerful and infinite — from
Thomas Green Clemson’s willing property
for a “high seminary of learning,” to Dean
Cox’s lifelong concern for students, to
countless alumni who have followed his
example.
This is the definition of “Clemson
legacy.” c
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T
Algae’s secret
garden
by Peter Kent
CRAIG MAHAFFEY
Scientists have often explored the
prospect of growing algae for human
food consumption. “In terms of food
production, it’s a good idea,” says
David Brune, Clemson biosystems
engineer honored for his algae
research. “Trouble is, nobody
wants it. It tastes awful.”
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hroughout his 30-year science career, Brune has worked with micro-algae — microscopic plants that grow in water — to clean up the environment and, yes, to make
food.
Instead of getting us to eat algae, Brune has developed a system that uses micro-algae to produce fish and shrimp. Then we eat the fish and shrimp. In the
process, he has boosted food production and eliminated pollution from fish farming, or aquaculture.
Brune figures out ways to use algae to convert solar energy into fuel, food and fertilizer. It’s not
magic; it’s biosystems engineering, a combining of engineering with biological and environmental
sciences.
His savvy and experience have earned him the 2006 Godley-Snell Award for Excellence
in Agricultural Research. He also holds the Charles Carter Newman Endowed Chair of
Natural Resources Engineering.
Brune and his colleagues run Clemson’s aquaculture program on
a few acres next to the bottom land where faculty and students grow
organic vegetables and other crops. They developed and patented the
Partitioned Aquaculture System, which is revolutionizing fish farming.
During more than 20 years of tests, the system has consistently produced more than 18,000 pounds of catfish an acre each year compared to
5,000 pounds in conventional ponds. Water use is reduced by 75 percent, and
waste discharge is eliminated by using algae and tilapia — fish that eat algae —
to clean the water. As a bonus, the system produces 5,500 pounds of tilapia an acre.
Catfish are confined in a small area of the pond to control their health and feeding. A slow-moving paddle wheel circulates water over the fish and through a series of raceways, removing the fish
feces, or sludge, from the confinement area.
Algae grow in the raceways and feed on the sludge. Shallow water and continuous movement
maximize algae production by allowing growth at all levels of the water instead of only at the top.
Tilapia in the raceways eat the algae to complete the waste removal process. Algae feed on the
waste; tilapia feed on the algae, producing clean water, no waste discharge and a valuable secondary
crop.
The system has also increased shrimp production to about 35,000 pounds an acre, compared to
5,000 pounds in traditional ponds, with zero discharge of sludge and water. It lowers the cost of fish
and shrimp by 5 to 10 cents per pound. As a result, large fish farmers in Alabama and Mississippi
are converting to the partitioned system.
About 3,000 miles from Clemson is another Brune project. Instead of working in ponds, he’s
working in California’s Salton Sea. The 350-square-mile inland sea is dying, overloaded with
fertilizer from farm runoff.
“We capture phosphorous that comes in at very low concentrations, and we grow micro-algae on
it, concentrate it to useful levels and send it back to the farmers,” says Brune. “Then they can use
less chemical fertilizer, which reduces the pollution load to the sea.”
It’s a classic Brune system. Farmers grow food using sunlight and fertilizer; fertilizer runoff and
sunlight nourish algae; algae are collected, processed and returned as fertilizer to the farmers. In
the process, algae make methane gas, which is a bio-fuel. The results are food, fertilizer and fuel:
Brune’s trinity.
Widespread use of the solar-energy-driven nutrient recycling system is in the future. At present,
fertilizer is relatively inexpensive, and U.S. farmers, unlike some European farmers, do not have to
pay fertilizer user-fees, which encourage efficiency and recycling efforts.
Brune takes the long view: The future favors the prepared.
“That’s our job as university professors — to be ahead of the curve. We are here to build intellectual and technological capacity to meet the problems that are coming to American farming and the
environment.” c
To learn more about Clemson aquaculture and Brune’s research, go to www.clemson.edu/scg/aqua.
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they are more than just a lease.
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and academic resources
are within a short walk.
Safety and security are
our No. 1 priority, and
the off-campus worries
can be forgotten.
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Box 344075
Clemson, SC 29634-4075
(864) 656-2295
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From Clemson Student
to Military Leader
Flying Tigers
Support from the Clemson Corps helps
make scholarships available for Clemson’s
Air Force and Army ROTC cadets, enabling
them to succeed as students and carry on
our University’s tradition of excellence as
they serve our country.
www.alumni.clemson.edu/clemsoncorps.htm
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Clemson head football coach Tommy Bowden got
a bird’s-eye view of South Carolina during an F-16
orientation flight with the 169th Fighter Wing, S.C.
Air National Guard, May 25, 2005. His pilot was
Capt. Rick “Slammer” Noble, a 1995 Clemson graduate
and veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and
Iraqi Freedom.
(Photo reprinted with permission from Code One magazine, Vol. 20,
No. 3, 2005.)
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I
‘Place Makers’
t was the brainchild of leaders from two academic colleges
— Architecture, Arts and Humanities and Business and
Behavioral Science — with instrumental initial support from
former deans Jim Barker and Jerry Trapnell. The program was
kick-started by a very generous gift from a Clemson alumnus who
has asked to remain anonymous.
Hot property
by Jeannie Davis
Their bold vision became a reality this past May when Clemson
celebrated its first graduating class in the Master of Real Estate
Development program. The MRED is a full-time, two-year
Build to suit
Highlights of the curriculum include the two-week Maymester
field trip studying developments in Myrtle Beach, Pawleys Island,
Charleston, Beaufort and Hilton Head, prior to the required 10week professional summer internship. Two students went to China
this summer to work on a $5 billion master-planned community,
while others interned in Colorado, Ohio, Florida and South
Carolina. Students also work with developers for the final two
classes, preparing feasibility analyses for actual deals involving
master-planned/resort communities and commercial development.
WANTED: Exceptional students
interested in building the future. Ideal
applicants must be part visionary,
part pragmatist — all business!
Those interested in building great
communities are encouraged to apply.
E
ven for Clemson University —
never short on big ideas — this
concept seemed really big: a
one-of-a-kind real estate development
program that would groom its
graduates to become intellectual
leaders in creating tomorrow’s most
inspired communities.
“It’s important to recognize that there are fewer than
10 graduate programs in real estate development in the
nation, in prestigious universities such as MIT, Columbia,
Cornell, Southern Cal, Texas A&M and Johns Hopkins,”
says J. Terrence Farris, program director. “Clemson’s MRED
program is the only one offered jointly by architecture
and business colleges. It is a critical distinction that gives
Clemson students a unique and compelling advantage.”
That’s right. It is the only program of its kind in the United
States.
Six disciplines are involved — MBA, finance, law, city
and regional planning, architecture, and construction
science and management — plus new courses in real
estate development. Students in the MRED program gain
a philosophical grounding in all those areas, as well as
practical experience. They work individually and in teams.
They do internships and take field trips. They work with
some of the brightest, most successful minds in the field.
“In the MRED program we’re teaching future developers to consider
a broad range of site design and business issues in every single
decision they make,” says Janice Schach, dean of the College of
Architecture, Arts and Humanities. “Building a great community
means envisioning a place where people can live healthy lives in
harmony with nature. It means creating spaces for people to be
happy and prosper. It’s much more than just cutting roads, clearing
trees and constructing buildings.”
Charles A. Rulick
Charles A. Rulick
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professional degree offered jointly by the planning and
landscape architecture department and the finance
department.
Students attend professional real estate conferences including one
week at the national Urban Land Institute conference, networking
with the leading professionals in the development industry.
Clemson is fortunate to have the immediate past chairman of the
ULI among its alumni — Harry H. Frampton III ’67, who is a key
supporter of the program and president of the Clemson University
Foundation.
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President Barker
picks up his trash.
Shouldn’t you?
Let’s all work
together to keep
Clemson clean.
Students from Clemson’s 2006
and 2007 Master of Real Estate
Development program — the only real
estate development graduate program
in the nation that officially combines
the disciplines of business and
architecture in a joint degree — are
pictured with program director
Terry Farris.
Front row from left are Lee Helena,
Justin Hirsch, Joshua Ropa, Charles
Rulick, Shayda Pourmand, Debbi
Schadel, Travis Rice, Terry Farris and
O’Neil McCoy; center, Matt Fuller and
Jason Armstrong; back row, Mark
Stuermann, Drew Niederriter, Jason
Tannery, Paul Nudelman, Sean Luther,
Matt Phillips, Michael Freeman and Jack
Miller. (Not pictured is Randy Cox.)
The program also sponsors the Charles Fraser Visiting Associates and Lecture Series
honoring his legacy — the founder of modern-day Hilton Head Island as developer of Sea
Pines and considered to be the creator of modern-day resorts in the United States.
www.clemson.edu/solidgreen
Applicants have come from architecture, finance, construction, marketing, history,
psychology, landscape architecture, political science and other diverse disciplines. They hail
from as far away as Oregon, New York, Florida and points in between with a maximum 20
students admitted annually. Several have shifted to development in mid-career, including a
retired police detective and a software specialist.
Location, location, location
The MRED program is the outgrowth of the Center for Real Estate Development. The
center creates a rich research, teaching and public service resource for students, consumers
and businesses in the state and region.
It has worked on an array of initiatives including analyzing future markets for downtown
Greenville office developers, evaluating a mixed-use downtown project in North Augusta,
preparing a land plan for an affordable housing development with an African American
neighborhood in Anderson, and preparing a market overview for an 800-acre sustainable
development in Greenville. It has also done research on eminent domain, big box stores, tax
increment finance and Katrina redevelopment.
As the Center for Real Estate Development continues to grow, it will become a hub of
information about real estate in the Southeast, a public service and research think tank
encouraging responsible land use. Students, the development industry and government
agencies will look to the center — not just for information, but for ideas and trends.
Students in the MRED program are already serving as research analysts for the center.
“Development is a public-private partnership, and quality development requires integrating
the perspectives of community, environment and economics,” says Farris. “We want our
students to be great ‘Place Makers,’ not just builders of projects.” c
For more information on Clemson’s real estate development program, go online at www.clemson.edu/
caah/pla/mred.
Thank you for helping
Clemson move up to No. 30!
U.S.News & World Report again named Clemson the top public
university in South Carolina. Clemson moved up four spots
this year, ranking 30th among the nation’s 162 public doctoral-granting universities. Clemson is now tied with Indiana
University and Michigan State.
With your support, Clemson is making real progress toward
our goal of being one of the nation’s top-20 public universities. This means a better education for our students, more
competitive industries and higher-paying jobs for South
Carolinians.
Don’t let the calendar and tax year end without making a
gift to ensure the continued success of Clemson University.
Use the enclosed envelope, call (864) 656-5896 or go online
to www.clemson.edu/isupportcu.
Your annual gift makes a difference.
See the enclosed gift envelope to find out how to receive your free Clemson
calendar and win tickets to the Clemson vs. North Carolina basketball game.
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Lifelong Connections
The Clemson Family
With Your Alumni Association
Alumni Fellow — Wenonah George Haire ’76
The Alumni Association honors four alumni each year for outstanding career
accomplishments.
Catawba Native American Wenonah
George Haire followed her father’s path
to Clemson. Evans “Buck” George came
to campus in 1951 to play football for
Coach Frank Howard. Two decades
later Wenonah came to earn a degree in
predentistry.
She received a doctor of dental medicine degree at the Medical University
of South Carolina and set up a dental
practice in her hometown of Rock Hill.
In 1990, she began directing the Catawba
Cultural Preservation Project.
Today, she continues as executive
director, guiding the project’s mission to
preserve, protect, promote and maintain
the rich cultural heritage of the Catawba
Indian Nation. The facility houses exhibits (stationary and traveling), archives,
educational programs, archaeology and a language department. On its grounds is
the historic Wagon Wheel Trail, which ends on the banks of the beautiful Catawba
River. A craft shop on site exhibits famous Catawba pottery.
Haire is also the tribal historic preservation officer over Catawba Reservation
lands. She helps determine whether any prehistoric or historic site will be affected
by a federal project or by a project that will need approval or that will use federal
grant monies. She works closely with an archaeologist to research lands in question.
Haire is dedicated to keeping the culture and heritage of the Catawba Nation
alive, especially through its children. She’s involved with after-school classes and
summer instructional programs for the children on the reservation.
To see past Alumni Fellow recipients or to nominate someone for a future award, visit the
Web at alumni.clemson.edu.
Connected!
Clemson’s Student Alumni
Association (SAA) is a great
way for students to become
aware of Clemson Alumni
Association services, make meaningful connections and enjoy the
University experience even more
as a student. Last year, under the
leadership of the Student Alumni
Council, SAA surpassed its goal
of reaching 10 percent membership of the entire undergraduate student body.
SAA students help shape Clemson traditions such as Big Thursday, the Ring Ceremony, Senior Picnic and Senior Gift. Members
also volunteer for community service projects and attend etiquette dinners and professional development workshops. Membership dues
are $20 per school year with $5 going to the Clemson Fund for student projects and programming. For more information, call (864)
656-2345 or go online to alumni.clemson.edu/saa.
Cruisin’
Newest alumna
During the Victor Hurst Convocation to mark the
beginning of a new academic year at Clemson, Provost
Dori Helms became the University’s newest honorary
alumna.
As provost, Helms has helped develop an academic
road map to move Clemson into position as one of the
nation’s top public universities. Among many other
teaching innovations, she’s introduced the concept of
creative inquiry for all undergraduate students.
Helms joined Clemson as a zoology professor in
1973. Her accomplishments and academic excellence
led to greater appointments. She became vice president
for academic affairs and provost in 2002.
WestZone breezeway
CBAC Scholar
The Columbia area Clemson Black
Alumni Council (CBAC) recently awarded
its annual Clemson scholarship to Jessica
Kirby, a 4.0 graduate of Spring Valley High
School. The scholarship is named for the
late Luther L. Taylor Jr. ’71, who served
in the S.C. House of Representatives.
Jessica, who plans to major in mechanical
engineering, is pictured with André Stanley
’77, Columbia area CBAC representative.
For more information about CBAC, call
the Alumni Center at (864) 656-2345.
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Clemson World online
For the online version of
Clemson World, this issue and
previous ones, visit the Web
at cworld.clemson.edu. For the latest
University news, go to clemsonews.
clemson.edu.
These PASSPORT
travelers took a
Scandinavian cruise
last summer, visiting
the Netherlands,
Norway, Denmark
and Sweden. Pictured
aboard Sea Princess are,
front row from left,
Linda Nickles, Jane
Duckworth, Maryellen and Sherrill ’04 Horton; back row, Diane and Bill Walker, Bill Nickles
’51, Country Harrison, Dodie Greene, Ed Duckworth ’61 and Joe Kenoyer ’65. Not pictured is
Pat Kenoyer.
Destinations for 2007 include Legends of the Nile, Australia and New Zealand, Ireland,
San Francisco and the Wine Country, Alaska by Sea, Alaska by Sea/Land/Rail and Fall
Foliage Cruise in Eastern Canada. For more information, go online to alumni.clemson.edu/
programs/travel2007.htm or call (864) 656-2345.
Tigerama quiz bowl
Do you know who was the first-place
skit winner in the 1959 Tigerama? How
about in 1969, 1970 or 1974? If that’s too
far back for you, how about in 2001 or
2003?
Clemson’s Blue Key honor fraternity
is engraving each year’s winner on a
commemorative silver bowl. After much
research, members have found the
winners — except for these six years.
If you can help, contact Rusty Guill at
[email protected] or (864) 656-0935.
RICK CLARK
The Clemson Alumni Association is proud to give
$250,000 to the WestZone project to support the
breezeway connecting the north and south stands.
The gift — exclusively from marketing program
revenue — places the Alumni Association in the
top tier of donors to IPTAY and in a high-visibility
location in the WestZone concourse area.
Alumni marketing programs making this gift possible include Bank of America credit cards, Nationwide
auto insurance, PASSPORT Travel destinations,
Nelnet Student Loan Consolidation, Clemson merchandise and sponsorship opportunities of Alumni Association events. For more information, contact Mike Bonnette at mike.bonnette@alumni.
clemson.edu or (864) 656-1694.
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The Clemson Family
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The Clemson Family
Student Life
Sonic boom!
THEY’RE BAAAACK — from Bowman Field to the President’s
House to downtown Clemson … and everywhere else!
You’re welcome!
Frenzy
Freshmen Frenzy, sponsored by the University Union’s
CLEMSONLiVE and Student Development Services’ Kickoff
Clemson, welcomes freshmen to Bowman Field for food, fun and
a heaping helping of Clemson spirit.
President’s Picnic
Freshmen
picnic on the
lawn of the
President’s
House with
the Barkers
and Tiger Band
before the
Welcome Back
Festival.
Players go global
Clemson Players traveled to Chicago this fall to present
Sincerely, an original drama developed by theater students and
professor Carrie
Ann Collins.
The play examines powerful and
universal emotions
found in all kinds
of letters — love
letters, war letters,
children’s letters,
goodbye letters. The production was featured at the Around the
Coyote Fall Arts Festival in the historic Chopin Theatre in the
Wicker Park neighborhood of the Windy City.
During the summer, Clemson Players presented The Decameron
Project — the troupe’s original interpretation of Giovanni
Boccaccio’s 14th century masterpiece — at the Fringe Festival in
Edinburgh, Scotland.
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The Clemson Family
New and returning Clemson
students pack College Avenue in
downtown Clemson for the annual
Welcome Back Festival. The traditional street party is sponsored by
Student Alumni Council and the
Clemson Alumni Association with
support from the city of Clemson
and area businesses. Anna Rowe is
pictured.
 
‘Stuff the Bus’
Bioengineering professor Ted Bateman
and his students witnessed the Space Shuttle
Discovery’s landing from less than 100
yards away at the Kennedy Space Center
in July. Pictured from left are graduate
students Eric Bandstra, Neil Travis and
Shelli Graham, professor Bateman and
undergraduate Chip Hinnant, all part of
Bateman’s Osteoporosis Biomechanics Lab
at Clemson.
Milliken challenge
Tracking the Tiger
Students from Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity paint a gigantic
Tiger Paw in the middle of the intersection near Sikes Hall.
Pictured from left are Ben Foster, Tyge Peacock, Steven
Gunzenhauser, Mike Gee and Andrew Mitchell.
The team is working to understand the
causes for bone loss and develop therapies
to improve health in space as well as on
the ground. Grants from Procter & Gamble
Pharmaceuticals, the National Space
Biomedical Research Institute and NASA
fund the research.
Saluting India
Electrical engineering graduate
student Poonam Joshi, cultural
secretary of the Clemson Indian
Student Association (CISA),
greets participants from the
campus and community in
a celebration of India’s 60th
Independence Day.
Gail DiSabatino, vice
president of student affairs, and
Larry W. Abernathy, mayor of
Clemson, were the chief guests
of the event that drew more than
200 participants. CISA, online
at people.clemson.edu/~india, is
affiliated with the University’s International Services and Diversity
Programs. It’s one of many international student organizations
through Clemson’s Gantt Intercultural Center, online at www.
clemson.edu/gic.
Counseling education graduate
student Elizabeth Cox helped guide a
program that collected 4,000 back-toschool items for Anderson, Pickens and
Oconee counties. “Sharp Supplies for
Sharp Minds,” also called “Stuff the
Bus,” was originally started by graduate
student Kim West as part of a community service practicum and implemented
in conjunction with United Way of
America. Participating students are
pictured with LaShauna Harrison of United Way. From left, Harrison, accounting major
Kelly Spring, packaging science major A.J. Mack, counselor education graduate student
Mike Bowers and Cox.
These Clemson students
took the Milliken Summer
Challenge, joining students
from universities across the
Southeast in unique internship opportunities.
As interns, students focus
on an important Milliken project in the chemical and textile industries. Each is teamed
with a Milliken associate who serves as the intern’s sponsor, and university faculty offer
technical assistance and key research knowledge. At the conclusion, students come together
at corporate headquarters and present projects to Milliken senior leadership.
Clemson students taking part in the leadership forum are pictured with Milliken executives, Chairman Roger Milliken (front row, right), CEO Ashley Allen (front row, left) and
COO Joe Salley (front row, second from right) and Clemson representatives Jan Murdoch,
Charlie Gooding, Deb Herman and Angela Davis. Management graduate Nic Lane ’03
(second row, right) hosted the Clemson representatives.
Inked
Graphic communications graduate students Wade Beard and Zach Nicholas recently
received the Werner Sattler/BCM Inks scholarship for technological achievement in the use of
metallic inks for printing on corrugated sheets. Pictured from left are BCM Inks representative
Mark Hayden, students Beard and Nicholas, and instructors Rory Marsoun and Kern Cox.
Innovative industries established the Clemson University Printing and Converting
Research Center (Clemson Print-Con) in the early 1990s for students and for their own
research and training to advance printing and converting processes. Since then, Clemson
students have earned national awards and nearly 100 percent job placement upon graduation.
Miss S.C. Teen USA
Freshman Brittany Smith of Spartanburg, the current Miss S.C. Teen USA, is a part of Clemson’s Community
Scholars Program focused on civic responsibility and public service. She shares residence in the Civics and Service
House within the Clemson House with other students who are also academically talented, community-minded and
civically engaged.
Members develop and participate in service projects on campus and in local communities across the state. They
also participate in workshops, field trips and alternative breaks. For more on Clemson service opportunities, go to
www.clemson.edu/servicealliance.
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Classmates
1943
1966
Phil A. Bechtold (CRE) of
Davidson, N.C., is president of
the Powder Coating Institute
for 2006-2007. The institute has
over 300 member companies
and is the industry organization
for powder coatings in North
America.
1970
Ray Maria McNamara
(BIOLSC) earned a Ph.D.
from the Graduate Theological
Union in Berkeley, Calif. She
has two master’s degrees and has
been a teacher, principal and
department chair at numerous
elementary and high schools.
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C.M. “Buddy” Lewis ’61
J. Givens Young ’42
Premed graduate Givens Young of Florence has been recognized by
the McLeod Regional Medical Center for his tireless leadership and commitment in establishing a regional medical center. This year marks the
30-year anniversary of the facility.
After a decade of planning helmed by Young, the medical center
introduced a new era of health care for the Pee Dee region. Under his
direction, McLeod Regional Medical Center began offering patients the
latest technology and modern medical treatments.
Young’s contributions were honored in June by a commemorative bust
that will be on permanent display within the medical center. The owner
of Young Pecan Co., he also gifted the hospital with the McLeod Pavilion
Chapel, dedicated to the memory of his wife, Florence Hunter Young.
Givens recalls his experience in the military at Clemson as helping
shape his life. He later wrote about his WWII experiences in Patton’s Foot
Soldier.
1960
1971
Glenn S. Cannon (ECON) is
general manager of Waverly
Light & Power. He was awarded
the Alex Radin National
Distinguished Service Award
by the American Public Power
Association at its national
conference in Chicago.
The Clemson Family
Tiger for all seasons
Honoring a leader
Harold L. Cooler (ARCH)
of Charlotte, N.C., wrote and
illustrated a book entitled
Chicora Chronicle about life in
the S.C. Lowcountry during the
1920s and 1930s. As a Clemson
student, he was active in three
student publications and guided
the 1943 Taps to high honors
from the National Scholastic
Press Association. For more
about his book, visit the Web at
www.okatiepress.com.
Harvey T. White (PREMED)
of Charlotte, N.C., was inducted
into the Greenwood Athletic
Hall of Fame. (CORRECTION:
We reported this in the previous
issue but indicated that it was
“posthumous.” We regret making the error.)
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R. Bernie Chapman Jr.
(POSC) of Columbia is
deputy director with the S.C.
Governor’s Office of Veterans’
Affairs.
*Paul W. Mims (CHE, M
’73) of Bee Cave, Texas, has a
new position with Affiliated
Computer Services as customer
relations officer for the Texas
Medicaid & Healthcare
Partnership, based in Austin.
Voice of experience
*Hoyal B. Kye ’60
Brig. Gen. Hoyal Kye, an engineering graduate, was the keynote speaker
for the Memorial Day services at Central Park in King, N.C.
Kye has given many speeches recognizing and honoring U.S. veterans.
He graduated from the Air Force Aviation Cadet School, Squadron Officer’s
School, Air Command and Staff College, Industrial College of the Armed
Forces and Brigadier General’s School. He was the commander of a fighter
squadron at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and is a command
pilot with more than 7,000 flying hours in various types of fighter aircraft.
Presently a member of the Cabarrus/Rowan Clemson Club and the
Charlotte Clemson Club, Kye has been an active supporter of IPTAY for 46
years.
1972
Neal S. Drucker (MATH) of
Tucker, Ga., was promoted to
assistant regional commissioner
for Federal/State Cooperative
Programs, part of the Atlanta
Regional Office of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, U.S.
Department of Labor.
Agriculture and applied economics graduate Buddy
Lewis is one busy alumnus. As a professional Realtor,
he’s consistently among the top 1 percent of producers
nationwide.
In addition, Lewis has been a lieutenant colonel in
the Army Reserves for 20 years, served as president of
the local Realtors association, volunteered in United
Way Palmetto Society, participated on the local Boy
Scouts of America board of directors and has been a
tireless worker in other outreach programs. He and his
wife, Emily, are world travelers. Also a prolific author,
he has three books in Clemson’s Cooper Library.
A Clemson Alumni Fellow, Lewis has been president
of the Columbia Clemson Club and a member of the
board of visitors. Several years ago, he established the
Buddy Lewis Scholarship Endowment in the College
of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences. Currently, he’s helping lead the Class of 1961 Golden Anniversary goal for its
celebration in 2011.
1973
Robert C. Truesdale (ME)
of Manchester, Tenn., was
promoted by Jacobs/Sverdrup
to director of propulsion testing
at NASA White Sands Test
Facility at Las Cruces, N.M.
1975
Glenn Aleck Cox (P-P ST) of
Pawleys Island opened Pawleys
Island Outdoors, a sport fishing
and hunting gear store. He also
owns Pawleys Island Beach
Service and Pawleys Island
Pharmacy, and is an IPTAY
representative for Georgetown
County.
Lyn Hammond Dennison
(ENGL) of Augusta, Ga., retired
as the assistant director of the
Medical College of Georgia
Greenblatt Library after 25 years
of service. She was awarded
an associate professor emeritus
appointment.
1977
Douglas M. Dangerfield (CE)
of Charleston was named
environmental director for
Naval Facilities Engineering
Command Southeast. He
received a Meritorious Civilian
Service Award from the Navy
and an Armed Forces Civilian
Service Medal for his Hurricane
Katrina recovery work.
Alan M. Wind (SED), a teacher and actor in Marietta, Ga.,
will present “Writing and
Performing Original Historical
Plays in the Social Studies
Classroom” at the annual con-
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Washington, D.C.
administered through USDA
Service Centers throughout the
state.
1979
1980
Frank A. Sligh (CRD) of
Newberry was named farm
loan chief for the USDA Farm
Service Agency in Columbia.
He has worked for the agency
for 28 years and will direct and
oversee farm loan programs
Steven W. Pratt (ET) of Bel
Air, Md., retired from the U.S.
Air Force as a major after 23
years of active service. He spent
20 years as an aircraft maintenance officer with assignments
across the nation and Korea.
Clemson Clevelands
Thomas ’73, M ’75 and Dale Butterworth
Cleveland ’75
Tom and Dale Cleveland are more than a great example
of how opposites can attract; they are testaments to the
Clemson spirit of entrepreneurship.
Tom, who holds degrees in zoology and biomedical
engineering, has been hard at work developing products
that aid emergency response. His innovative devices range
from respiratory resuscitation tools to mass casualty appliances. To learn more, visit the company Web site at www.
lifesavingsystemsinc.com.
Dale, who graduated with a degree in secondary education (English), has been making innovations of her own. An
artist, she recently finished a book that features vivid watercolor scenes of the University. Her compilation is personalized by her own reflections on Clemson life. For more on her book, go to www.dalecleveland.com.
The innovative Clemson spirit of Tom and Dale also carries on through their children. Their son, Drew ’03, a marketing
graduate, is working for Clear Channel Outdoor. MaryWynne, their daughter, is a Clemson senior nursing student.
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He also earned a master’s degree
in business administration from
Golden Gate University. His
next job is with Battelle at
Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., and
his next home will be near
Stroudsburg, Pa.
Teresa Tanquary Sutton
(ACCT) of Charlotte, N.C., has
obtained her real estate license
and is a broker with Rawson
Realty LLC.
1981
Joey V. Duncan (CE) of Ponte
Vedra Beach, Fla., is director of
the city of Jacksonville’s public
works department.
Helen Legare-Floyd (AGRON)
of Johns Island is the 2006
president of the S.C. Nursery
and Landscape Association.
She’s co-owner of Legare Farms,
a sod and nursery operation.
1982
Jeannette Craig (SCT-MA,
M ’88 PACC) and Marvin L.
(’84 SED-MA, M ’93 CPSC)
Blackburn live in Burlington,
N.C. She was chosen 2006
Adjunct Faculty Member of the
Year at Alamance Community
College, and he’s senior Unix
administrator at Glen Raven
Inc.
Ring recovery
Mick C. Cumbie (ADMMGT)
of Macomb, Ill., retired from
the U.S. Army as a lieutenant
colonel after nearly 24 years of
service. He’s the development
officer for the College of Fine
Arts and Communication at
Western Illinois University.
1984
Eric N. Folk (EE) of Toney,
Ala., is the principal owner
of Proven Analog Concepts
Engineering Research.
Cheryl Holmes Matheny
(CRP) of Lexington was
inducted as a member of the
American Institute of Certified
Planners’ College of Fellows.
She’s a principal with The
Matheny-Burns Group.
Martha Richardson Rick
(ACCT) of Charlotte, N.C.,
is a senior vice president of
information security business
continuity at Bank of America.
1985
Jonathan P. Foster (ACCT) of
Easley was appointed by Gov.
Mark Sanford and confirmed
*Susan Worsham Piedfort ’78
The last place English alumna Susan Piedfort wanted to lose her Clemson
ring was in a USC bathroom. But while she was a journalism graduate student there, that’s exactly what happened.
Its replacement, a gold dinner ring version, stayed with Piedfort for 27
years. But recently, it too went missing. While searching the Internet for a
new ring, she got a message from the Clemson Alumni Center that her ring
had been found. The lifeguard at a pool where Piedfort had visited found it
and left it at a nearby golf pro shop, where someone then called Clemson.
Much to her surprise and joy, the Alumni Association staff located her
by cross-referencing the woman’s style class ring through its engravings of
graduation date, degree and initials with a list of 1978 female graduates,
helping another Clemson ring find its way home.
Piedfort is editor of The Chronicle at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems
Center in Charleston.
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‘Italy with the Dean’
1983
Tom A. di Stefano (ME) of
Midlothian, Va., is director of
the chemical blending division
for Carpenter Co.
The Clemson Family
Peanuts!
Jay W. Chapin PhD ’78
Entomology graduate Jay Chapin (pictured right), state peanut and small
grain specialist for Clemson University Extension Service, recently earned a
top national award in his field.
He and co-author James Thomas (left), both of the Edisto Research and
Education Center, received the American Peanut Research and Education
Society’s Bailey Award for outstanding research. Their work was supported by
an S.C. Peanut Board grant.
 With the help of Clemson Extension, peanut acreage in South Carolina has
increased from only 11,000 acres before 2003 to 60,000 in 2005. The annual
cash value of the crop is about $35 million. Expanded peanut production has
helped to diversify farm operations and provide an excellent rotational crop
for cotton producers.
by the S.C. Senate to serve on
the S.C. Board of Financial
Institutions until 2010. He was
also elected to the position of
first vice president of the S.C.
Financial Services Association.
Roger A. Wilson (COMPSC,
M ’91 BUSADM) of Falls
Church, Va., is director of
sales, North America, for Red
Bend Software. He’s also an
adjunct professor in the School
of Information Technology &
Engineering at George Mason
University.
1986
Laura J. Murphree (ECON) of
Marietta, Ga., is prosecuting attorney for capital case litigation
with the Georgia Prosecution
Council in Atlanta. She was
assistant district attorney for 10
years and is a third generation
Clemson graduate.
The first group to travel to “Italy with the Dean,” based at Clemson’s Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and
Urban Studies in Genoa,
Italy, included a great
turnout of alumni, family
and friends of the College
of Architecture, Arts and
Humanities (AAH).
Pictured on the balcony
of Villa del Balbianello on
Lake Cuomo, are, from left,
Brad Smith Jr. and Caroline
Smith (holding flag).
Stooping: Cindy and Doug
Harnsberger (director of
Clemson’s graduate program in historic preservation), Janie Yeargin, Gail Mitchell, AAH Dean Jan Schach, Stephanie Barczewski (associate dean),
Connie Sexton and Brad Smith ’82.
Back row: Lynn Yeargin ’76, LeRoy Adams ’63 (director of Clemson Advancement Foundation for Design and Building),
Ken Baker, Mary Ann McAnall, Patsy Wilkinson, Paul and Monica Zielinski, David and Silvia Carroll, Emilio Trabella, Leigh
Caldwell ’76, Mary Ruth Brown, Lyle Smith, Gary Caldwell ’76, Jackie Reynolds, Corinne Morgan ’71, Gerrie Adams, John
Morgan ’71, *Larry Brown ’60 and *Diane Eldridge ’98. Not pictured: *Charles Eldridge ’70.
Plans are already in the works for next year’s spring trip to Italy and the Daniel Center.
Bank of Clarendon, where he
has worked for 21 years.
1988
Scott C. Bowen (COMPSC), a
lieutenant colonel in the U.S.
Air Force, is the commander
of the 52d Operations Support
Squadron at Spangdahlem Air
Base in Germany. He also flies
F-16CJs with the 52d Fighter
Wing’s fighter squadrons.
Brian Lamar Ratchford
(MATH) of Charlotte, N.C., is
a lieutenant colonel in the N.C.
Air National Guard and an
instructor pilot in the C-130.
Richard C. Nicholson
(CPINSYS) of Wauchula, Fla.,
accepted an appointment in
the Foreign Service sector of
the Department of State. His
first two-year assignment to the
Embassy in Nairobi includes
Swahili and consular training.
1987
1989
*J. Barry Ham (FINMGT) of
Manning is president of the
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Blaire Jones Ferguson (MKTG)
of Lafayette, Colo., graduated with honors and a B.S. in
nursing from the University
of Colorado Health Sciences
Center. She’s a member of
Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society
of Nursing and is working
in surgical services at Avista
Adventist Hospital in Louisville.
1990
Ann Pollard Rowland (MKTG)
of Greer is an elementary school
teacher and math consultant for
Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Mike E. Wolf (FINMGT) of
Atlanta, Ga., is a partner and
co-founder of the investment
management firm French Wolf
& Farr Inc.
1991
Rebecca Cecil Hartford
(ELED) of Winchester, Ky., and
her family have moved to Mons,
Belgium.
Derek G. (MGT) and Robyn
Grosjean (ELED) McFarland
live in Fort Mill. Derek, a
strategic account manager
with Sonoco Products Co. in
Hartsville, recently traveled to
Brussels, Belgium, to work with
a European management team.
Robert S. Ratchford (HIST)
of Statesville, N.C., is
QI-regulatory manager for
Community Living Concepts of
North Carolina Inc.
1992
L. Rhett Orr (BUSADM) of
Rocky Face, N.C., is married
and owns an insurance agency.
1993
Bartow L. Shaw (CSMGT, M
’94 BUSADM) of Charlotte,
N.C., was honored by Historic
Charlotte Inc. for Park
Kingston, a restoration project
that converted a 1928 apartment
building into luxury condominiums in the historic Dilworth
neighborhood. He is owner and
president of Shaw Construction
Co. of the Carolinas.
1994
J. Michael Bitzer (M HIST) of
Salisbury, N.C., is the chair of
Catawba College’s new history
and politics department. He
was named a 2006 Wye Faculty
Fellow by the Aspen Institute.
Rocket scientists
Anne Cope ’95, M ’97 and Meg Dalton Nikovits ’99
Civil engineering graduates Meg Nikovits and Anne Cope are
structural engineers for the RS&H (Reynold Smith and Hill) Aerospace
and Defense Program on Merritt Island, Fla.
Since 1960, RS&H has been involved in the definition, design,
management, testing and checkout of aerospace launch support
equipment and space launch facilities for NASA and the Air Force, as
well as other Department of Defense agencies.
Nikovits came to RS&H from the bridge design industry in 2003
to work on a structural refurbishment project for the Shuttle launch
facilities at Kennedy Space Center. Cope joined RS&H the same year
while completing her Ph.D. at the University of Florida. They work with a third Clemson engineer, *Brice Lytle ’48, who
has been with RS&H since 1974 and has been involved in the space industry since its infancy in 1961.
Nikovits (left) and Cope are pictured during the rollout of the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Vehicle Assembly
Building to the launch pad for the launch of STS 121.
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Top young professional
Rebecca Baltzell Giesing
(ENGL) is married and living
in Jensen Beach, Fla. She’s
a freelance public relations
consultant.
John M. DeWorken ’96, ’97, M ’01
Psychology and English graduate John DeWorken has been nominated
by U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint to participate in the Senate
Leadership Summit for Young Professionals in Washington, D.C.
The summit is intended to help Congress strengthen policy-based
dialogue with the top 300 young professionals from across the country.
Topics include jobs, wealth, strengthening of U.S. competitiveness and
technology, and innovative health care.
DeWorken is vice president of public policy for the Greater Greenville
and Spartanburg area Chambers of Commerce and a legislative liaison for
the Greater Greer Chamber of Commerce.
He has also held positions with S.C. Sen. Greg Ryberg and the S.C.
Chamber of Commerce in Columbia. For Clemson, DeWorken has served as
Young Alumni president and member of the Alumni National Council.
Jonathan P. Hunt (BIOCH, M
’01 ESE) of Florence is a civil/
environmental engineer and was
promoted by his firm, Hayes,
Seay, Mattern & Mattern Inc. in
Roanoke, Va.
Ryan J. Smoak (EE) of Bowman
is president of McCall-Thomas
Engineering Co. Inc.
1995
Austin O. (MGT, M ’03
BUSADM) and Jessica Byars
(’00 POSC) Groves are married
and living in Hampstead, Md.
He’s vice president and director
of development for Greenberg
Gibbons Commercial Corp. in
Owings Mills.
Joy Godshall (SPED)
and William S. “Bo” III
(ENGL) Ivester are living in
Greenville. She’s a secondary
transition specialist for the S.C.
Department of Education and
USC School of Medicine. He’s
a regional sales manager for List
Industries Inc.
Sara Branch Keegan (POSC)
of Kingwood, Texas, transferred
from Atlanta, Ga., to Houston
with the law firm Jones Day
where she practices complex
Mark T. Godfrey (DESIGN,
M ’98 ARCH) of Decatur,
Ga., is project manager of the
commercial retail studio for
Pazdan-Smith Group Architects
in Greenville.
Amy Balcome Hill (ACCT) of
Columbia practices commercial
litigation with Sowell Gray
Stepp and Laffitte LLC.
commercial litigation and
white-collar criminal defense
work.
1996
Elizabeth Holmes Carpenter
(POSC, M ’00 PUBADM) is
married and living in Columbia.
She’s a U.S. probation officer.
Monica L. Eustace (DESIGN)
of Charleston is a city planner
for North Charleston. She
received her MFA in historic
preservation from Savannah
College of Art and Design.
Katherine Maraist McNamara
(BIOSC) is married and
living in Fairfax, Vt. She’s a
supervisory public health veterinarian employed by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
Susan Daniels Petracco
(COMPSC) is married and
living in Viera, Fla. She and
her husband own a Web
development firm, NetBlazon,
and an educational toy store,
WonderBrains.
1997
Todd P. Demianych (DESIGN,
M ’02 CRP) of Central works
for Pazdan-Smith Group
Architects Inc. of Greenville.
Tigers at MUSC
These Clemson alumni recently
earned doctor of medicine degrees
at the Medical University of South
Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston.
Pictured front row, from left,
are Shannon Wilson Aymes ’02,
Lindsay Caston Cecil ’02, Andrea
Corontzes Bryan ’02, Lee Lovett ’02,
Sarah Stevenson Cottingham ’00,
Suzann Hutto Weathers ’02, Julie
Gillespie ’02, Kiersten Benich Lofton ’98, Nikki Hughes ’98, Erin Johnston Dickert ’97.
Second row: Jocelyn Rogers Renfrow ’99, Kimberly Westin McHugh ’02, Lauren Rollins Black ’02,
Hunter White Burch ’00, Elizabeth Nunnery ’02, Kristen Hawthorne ’00. Third row: Mick Mahoney, Will
Martin, William Whiteside ’02, William Bryan Gamble ’00, John David Williamson, Jeff Hatchell ’02. Back
row: Clayton H. Davis, William Powell ’02, Nic Noblet ’00, Bobby Leonardi and John Payne ’02.
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Alumni earning master’s
degrees in
rehabilitation sciences
from MUSC
in May are
Julia Norton
’04, Megan
Coons ’04, Julie
Chung ’02,
Paul L. Padgett
’03 and (not
pictured) Callie Leonard Cordray ’03.
The Clemson Family
Lookin’ for adventure
J. Hite ’04, Andrew Norton ’04, Rodger Willis ’04
They promised each other that they would take their motorcycles around the world
before they “got serious jobs … or worse yet, got married.” Last winter, J. Hite, Andrew
Norton and Rodger Willis prepared for the ride of a lifetime, spanning 20 countries in the
space of a few months. For lodging they planned to camp or “couchsurf.” Their budget for
food was equally frugal.
Willis, a chemical engineering graduate and former Clemson Rugby team member,
quit his job as a mechanical engineer in Asheville to join the trip. Norton, an architecture
graduate, finished his internship with a firm in Charleston. Hite, a mechanical engineering graduate, wrapped up his two years at Clemson researching cardiovascular disease.
They’ve chronicled their adventure through journal entries and videos, highlighting an incredible journey, which includes surviving a scary encounter with the Russian
Border patrol, meeting friendly Romanians, losing Hite for a day and watching the
sunset come up over Monaco. See more of their journey at www.dualsportdiary.com.
Rodger Willis, Andrew Norton, J. Hite
Felipe A. Herrera (INDE) of
Atlanta, Ga., is a financial analyst attending Emory’s evening
MBA program.
1998
*Jason P. Bagley (SED-FR)
of Columbia graduated with a
master’s degree in French from
the University of South Carolina.
Christopher B. Chestnut (CRE,
M ’99) is married and living in
Landrum. He’s employed with
Edward Jones Investment. He
runs the Landrum branch and
recently received his Accredited
Asset Management Specialist
designation.
Jennifer “Buffy” Head Murphy
(PRTM) of Irmo was named
South Carolina Teacher of the
Year for 2006-2007. She teaches
at Irmo Elementary School.
Cara Baumhardt Thompson
(CHE) of Moore earned a
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donor for 2007 Fiscal
Year (July 1, 2006June 30, 2007)
through August 21.
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PMBA from the University of
South Carolina. She’s the plant
manager for Milliken Chemical
Dewey Plant in Inman.
professional engineer exam and
is licensed in Maryland. She’s
an environmental engineer with
Stearns & Wheler.
Christopher D. White (SCTPH) of Seneca is a physics
teacher at Seneca High School.
He was selected as the S.C.
Academy of Science Teacher
of the Year for 2006, and recognized by the Sigma Xi Scientific
Research Society, Clemson
University Chapter, as the S.C.
Upstate Science Teacher of the
Year.
2000
1999
Jamie Cross Gomez (P-P ST) is
married and living in Lexington.
She graduated from the Medical
University of South Carolina
and is a practicing dentist.
Bryn Sarvis Pace (MGT) of
Glen Cove, N.Y., graduated cum
laude from St. John’s University
School of Law. She accepted an
offer with an education law firm
in Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
Nicole L. Taylor (ANSC) of
Hartsville received her doctor of
veterinary medicine degree from
the Virginia-Maryland Regional
College of Veterinary Medicine
in Blacksburg, Va.
*Maureen M. Wingfield (AGE)
of Baltimore, Md., passed the
Joanna Stafford Brabham
(NURS) of Charleston
graduated from the Medical
University of South Carolina
with a master’s degree in nurse
anesthesia. She’s a certified
registered nurse anesthetist with
the Trident Anesthesia Group.
Virgil I. (INDMGT) and
Courtney Espen (’01 SED-EN)
Bunao are married and living
in Charleston. He’s a marketing
executive for Rosalina Inc. and
an owner of CVI Photography
LLC. She’s an English teacher at
Summerville High School.
Elizabeth Anne Parker
(ANSC) of Charleston received
a doctorate of veterinary
medicine from the University of
Georgia College of Veterinary
Medicine.
Annie R. Smith (HIST) of
Atlanta, Ga., earned a master’s
degree in public administration
with a concentration in
nonprofit management from
Georgia State University. She’s
in mass-market constituent
relationship management at
the national home office of the
American Cancer Society in
Atlanta.
Catherine Davis Stokes
(ECE) is married and living in
McDonough, Ga.
W. Ashby Hudson IV (ENGL)
of Virginia Beach, Va., earned
a master’s degree in business
administration from Liberty
University.
2001
Trish E. Land (HLTHSC) of
Seneca is a meeting planner
for the National Council of
Examiners for Engineering and
Surveying in Clemson.
Jessica C. Griggs (ECHED, M
’03 COUNED) of Pendleton is
the associate director of guest
services for the University.
Sean P. Paone (LA) of Fairfax
Station, Va., was promoted
to project site designer at
ColeJenest & Stone P.A. in
Charlotte, N.C.
Wally P. (FOR) and Dana
Brown (’03 MGT) Doyle are
married and living in Myrtle
Beach.
Brad T. Moore (ELED) is married and living in Greenville.
Tanner W. Pittman (L&IT) of
Greenville graduated from the
University of Georgia School
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of Law.
Melissa S. Shivers (M
CNLGUID) of Anderson is
director of intercultural affairs
at the University of Georgia in
Athens.
2002
R. Lane Coffee Jr. (M CHEM)
of Nashville, Tenn., is a third
year Ph.D. student in the
department of pharmacology at
Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine.
Kevin M. Drew (HIST) of
Cumberland, Md., received a
juris doctor degree from Ohio
Northern’s Pettit College of Law
at Ohio Northern University.
Douglas P. Freiland
(FORMGT) is married and
living in Woodbridge, Va.
Jessica Kalemba Kochiss
(MKTG) is married and living in
Washington, D.C.
Jamie R. Owings (MGT) is
married and living in Easley.
These 2002 alumni received
doctorate of veterinary medicine
degrees from the University of
Georgia: Sarah Ann Cooper
(ANSC) of Pickens, *Ryan M.
Dunagin (ANIND) of Boiling
Springs, Courtney Lynn Mallett
(BIOLSC) of Spartanburg,
Canaan M. Whitfield-Cargile
(ANSC) of Aiken, Shawn L.
Williamson (ANSC) of Rock
Hill.
2003
Matthew A. Holland (HIST) of
San Diego, Calif., graduated from
Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
David S. Klausman (CE) of
Charlotte, N.C., is manager
in the Charlotte office of
LandDesign, an urban planning,
Yo u r cl as s co u n ts
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factor in Clemson’s becoming a top public university. To see
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projects/update.htm for the latest numbers.
civil engineering and landscape
architecture company.
Erin E. Pshenishny (PSYCH)
of Fort Mill earned a master’s
degree in counseling from West
Virginia University. She was
awarded a fellowship at Indiana
University where she will pursue
a Ph.D.
Rob C. Schuette (BIOCH) of
Clemson is a first lieutenant in
the U.S. Army serving in Iraq
with A Troop 1st Squadron, 33rd
Cavalry Regiment.
These 2003 alumni received
doctorate of veterinary medicine
degrees from the University of
Georgia: Elizabeth Lee Cuttino
(AVS) of Sumter, Christie Ellen
Mayo (AVS) of Lexington,
Jessica Brooke Wingfield
(ANSC) of Moncks Corner.
2004
Carrie Priddy (M PROCOM)
and Chris M. (CPINSYS)
DuPre are married and living in
Greenville.
Scott R. Runyon (ME) is
married and living in Hanahan.
Ryan O. Wolf (MKTG) of
Arlington, Va., is working for
Clemson mom extraordinaire
Anne Pickens Collins
Clemson wife, mom and lifelong volunteer Anne Pickens Collins has received the 2006 Order of the Silver Crescent,
the state’s highest honor given for an individual’s volunteer and community service. She established herself as a journalist and went on to become a historian, staunch supporter of education and
the arts, and tireless volunteer.
She has worked for the local Salvation Army, city recreation, little theater,
arts council, literacy council, health agency and other community enrichment efforts.
She’s received many honors over the years including Outstanding Library
Trustee of South Carolina, several Service to Mankind awards and Family of
the Year designation. She received her latest award in the Anne Pickens Collins
room at the Chester County Library.
At Clemson, she’s a former Tiger Brotherhood Mother of the Year and
inspiration for the Joel W. Collins Sr. and the Anne Pickens Collins scholarships established by their son Joel.
But her greatest contribution to the University just might be the legacy
of Collins alumni she and her husband, Joel ’31, established at Clemson. Not
only her sons, Andrew ’57, Joel Jr. ’65 (Clemson Distinguished Service Award recipient) and Richard, but their children
and, no doubt, their children’s children.
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Halliburton’s government and
infrastructure team on analyzing
and forecasting current business
opportunities.
2005
Charles M. IV (HIST) and
Ashleigh Readling (’06
GRCOMM) Ivey are married
and living in Greensboro, N.C.
He is part of the charter class at
Elon University School of Law.
J. Clint Menefee (M ARCH) is
an architectural intern at F&S
Partners Inc., a Dallas-based firm.
2006
*Ali C. Bedard (PRTM) of
Mount Pleasant is a tour and
travel sales manager for the
Charleston Area Convention
and Visitors Bureau.
Malorie E. Reynolds
(SPCH&CS) of Easley is a
financial services professional
with Massachusetts Mutual Life
Insurance Co.
* Active Clemson Fund donor
for 2007 Fiscal Year (July 1,
2006-June 30, 2007)
through August 21.
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The Clemson Family
Little
Tigers
Kelly Heeter Jackson ’93, a son,
Ryder William, Dec. 14, 2004.
Heather White Mays ’93, a
daughter, Daisy Hurst, March 28,
2006.
Alicia Fishburne McCabe ’93,
M ’94, a son, James Joseph,
May 11, 2006.
Chad W. ’93, M ’97 and Joy
Johnson ’97, M ’98 Patton, a son,
Frank Mitchell Thomas, Jan. 27,
2006.
Jeffrey A. Gibson ’85, a son,
Jeffrey Andrew, Oct. 11, 2005.
John T. ’88 and Susan Blackwood
’89 Lady, a son, John Thomas,
March 9, 2006.
Philip A. Hunt ’89, a son,
Avery Alexander, March 3, 2006.
Brent A. Fidler ’90, twins,
Adrienne Christine and
Atticus Arthur, May 25, 2006.
H. Stroh IV ’99, M ’01 and
Jennifer Babb ’00, M ’01
Morrison, a daughter,
Dorothy Hayes, May 20, 2006.
Amy Balcome Hill ’96, a son,
Matthew Burns, Nov. 17, 2005.
Kimberly Smith Mangum ’96,
a daughter, Kinsey Linn, Dec. 30,
2005.
Kristen Allison Carlton ’97,
a daughter, Ella Grace, Sept. 27,
2005.
Peggy Burg Kernan ’94, a son,
Timothy William, Jan. 27, 2006.
Andrea Compton and Kevin R.
Krick ’97, a son, Avery Charles,
May 10, 2006.
Jason L. Poston ’94, a daughter,
Julia Mary, Feb. 2, 2006.
Keith T. Wicker ’97, a son,
Nathaniel Keith, April 7, 2006.
Shawn E. ’94 and Anna Hays ’97
Smolen, a son, Nathaniel Hays,
March 28, 2005.
James E. ’98 and Stephanie
Gilbert ’99, M ’00 Brandenburg,
a daughter, Callie Grace, June 21,
2005.
Austin O. ’95 and Jennifer Byers
’00 Groves, a son, Aidan James,
July 30, 2005.
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Rebecca Baltzell Giesing ’96,
a daughter, Emma Hamilton,
Nov. 3, 2005.
Brett A. ’93 and Suzanne
Spaulding ’97 Turner, a son,
William Elmore Spaulding,
April 16, 2006.
Rebecca Cecil Hartford ’91,
a son, John Wesley, March 6, 2005.
L. Rhett Orr ’92, two sons,
James Brady, Feb. 6, 2005, and
Joshua Brooks, June 19, 2006.
Jamie Cross Gomez ’99,
a daughter, Madelyn Anne,
Oct. 6, 2005.
Jared F. Scarpaci ’96, a son,
Ara Charles, April 18, 2006.
Dana Gosnell and J. Boyden
Fogle ’95, a son, Zachary John,
May 6, 2006.
Jacqueline Nantz ’92, M ’93 and
Robert R. M ’95 Lovegrove,
a daughter, Emilee Michelle,
April 9, 2006.
Jenifer Myers Franzone ’96, a
son, Coleman Thomas, March 16,
2006.
Steven D. Smith ’93, a daughter,
Sarah Campbell, March 28, 2006.
Susan Dunkelberg Christopher
’91, a daughter, Saffron Jet,
May 7, 2005.
Charles A. Jr. ’92 and Rebecca
Emery ’94 Goessel, a daughter,
Morgan Mary, March 30, 2006.
P. Ben Duncan ’99, a son,
Benjamin, March 27, 2004.
J. Matt ’96 and Amanda Darby
’97 Martin, a son, William Briggs,
March 5, 2006.
Jason M. Hopp ’90, a daughter,
Rachel Marie, Jan. 25, 2006.
Kristen Greene Ursomarso ’91,
a son, John Anthony, April 19,
2006.
Shelley Bailey Brown ’96, twins,
Mac and Bailey, Feb. 21, 2006.
Manda Moore Poletti ’93, twins,
Delacy Jane and Steven Logan,
Sept. 19, 2005.
Lisa Sikes and Scott S. Turner
’94, a daughter, Megan Renee,
May 1, 2006.
James P. ’95, M ’96 and Wendi
Higgins ’95, M ’96 Hill,
a daughter, Peri Elizabeth,
Feb. 14, 2006.
Christopher B. Chesnut ’98, M
’99, a daughter, Darci Olivia,
April 29, 2005.
Ashley Harmon Clark ’98, a
daughter, Ashlyn Rose, Aug. 12,
2005.
Cheryl Dove ’98 and Jonathan D.
’99 Dunagin, a son, Elijah Morgan,
May 9, 2006.
Jennifer Martin Maginnes ’98,
a daughter, Lauren Elizabeth,
Nov. 8, 2005.
Joy Godshall and William S.
Ivester ’95, a daughter, Emily
Grace, Feb. 17, 2006.
Jess and Stephanie Moore Rigler
’98, a son, Chase Kenneth,
Dec. 29, 2005.
Jocelyn Blankin ’95 and Charles
David ’97 Kay, adopted a son
from Tyumen, Russia,
Grayson James, on April 4, 2006.
Cara Baumhardt Thompson ’98,
a son, Christopher Meyer, Jan. 18,
2006.
J. Brent Thomas ’95, a son,
Judson Brent, April 13, 2006.
Laura Share Danforth ’99, a son,
Noah Bartlett, April 3, 2006.
Scott E. and Tara Walters Somers
’99, a daughter, Hagan Louise,
Feb. 8, 2006.
CLEMSON WORLD TRAVELERS
Tigers pause in Europe
1
Architecture graduate William Hughes ’53
and his wife, Maureen, are pictured in Dubrovnik,
Croatia. The couple also traveled to Italy and Greece
last summer.
Biology duo 2
Bruce ’68 and Pam Ely Rhyne ’67, M ’68 met
as students in Clemson’s Glee Club. Both are now
retired; Bruce as a biology teacher and Pam as a
biology professor at Kennesaw State University.
They recently made a three-week excursion to
South America, where they visited Peru, Ecuador
and the Galapagos Islands.
David P. and Kelly Pettit Philpott
’00, a son, Zachary Andrew,
April 8, 2006.
Courtney Culbertson Skinner
’00, a daughter, Emma Paige,
Jan. 8, 2006.
Jennifer Huber ’01 and Brian P.
’02 Scott, a son, Parker Hayden,
April 21, 2006.
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3
Erin Green Shaw ’00, a daughter,
Parker Ellington, March 14, 2006.
Annie League and R. Matthew
Schell ’01, a daughter, Caroline
Elizabeth, March 20, 2006.
Ere they saw Elba 4
When newlyweds Hugh ’77 and Nancy Easley
’97 Faulkner honeymooned on the island of Elba,
Italy, they realized they’d forgotten to pack their
Clemson Tiger Paw flag. After searching Elba’s
markets for supplies, the couple fashioned their
own version of Tiger spirit.
1
Robyn Hooker Green ’00,
a daughter, Aubrey Kate,
Aug. 27, 2005.
Catherine Davis Stokes ’00,
a daughter, Kaylynn Elizabeth,
April 12, 2006.
Clemson horsepower 3
Clemson was the best-represented university
at the North American International Livestock
Exposition horse competition last fall. Larry
Hudson, professor emeritus of animal and veterinary sciences, served as a judge for the Eastern
National 4-H Horse Roundup. He’s pictured with
Clemson graduates who’ve gone on to become
extension horse specialists. From left, Hudson,
Pat McKinney Comerford ’76 from Penn State,
Celeste Coker Crisman ’84, M ’87 from Virginia
Polytech Institute and Elizabeth Rhodes Buist
’77 from Clemson.
2
Linda Doane
Kelly Vucish Giddings ’88,
a daughter, Lillian Marie,
April 21, 2006.
Brett D. and Jill Schmidt Alkins
’96, a son, Mark Gregory, Dec. 20,
2005.
Brian J. Callahan ’99, EdD ’05,
a daughter, Ansley Grace,
March 6, 2006.
Copyright notice ©Linda Doane
David A. Grossman PhD ’85,
two sons, Isaac Sean, Feb. 2, 2004,
and Joseph Padraig, April 7, 2006.
Brian E. Thompson ’95, a son,
John Edward, Feb. 3, 2006.
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CLEMSON WORLD TRAVELERS
Grand place
1991 graduates and Tiger Band 5
alumni Derek (management)
and Robyn Grosjean McFarland
(elementary education) are pictured
at Grand-Place in Brussels, Belgium.
Derek is a strategic account manager
with Sonoco Products.
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Delta float
For the past 15 years, a group of 1988
Tri Delta pledges have gotten together every year on the last weekend
of February. This year, they reunited
at the Aventura Spa Palace in Playa
del Carmen, Mexico. These lifelong
friends are, front row from left, Julie
Crow Ruck, *Nancy Baldwin
Calhoun, Angie Smith Patnode,
Caroline Coleman Bennett and
Katherine Goff Lockwood. Back
row: Laura Price Long, Morgan
McComb Fancher, Kathy Inabinet
Taylor, Lisa McCormick Anderson,
Whitney Ritter Reichard, Allison
Miller Free, Laura Waters Burns
and Gail Jones Searcy.
Mr. Strait goes to 7
Washington
Three-year-old Daniel Strait, son of
political science alumnus Robert
H. Strait Jr. ’92, proudly wears his
Clemson colors in front of the Capitol
in Washington, D.C.
Gift for giving 8
Management graduate Jeremy Petty
’93 looks forward to his church’s
volunteer trip to Honduras every
year, but this year he made a special
new friend. Petty traveled with the
First Baptist Church of Raleigh, N.C.,
to the Tierra Blanca, where he met
Anderson, pictured here with his first
Clemson Tigers shirt.
Trailblazer 9
Accounting graduate Henry R.
Huthmacher Jr. ’95 spent five days
backpacking through Yellowstone
National Park in June. He‘s shown
here in the geothermic area with
the Yellowstone River running in the
valley behind him.
The Clemson Family
Top of the island
Biochemistry graduate Beth 10
Burst ’97 Neilsen is pictured at
Marina Cay, British Virgin Islands. She
and her husband, Allen ’97, traveled
to the island in June to celebrate
Beth’s completion of the USMLE
step 1 exam toward her doctor of
medicine degree.
Underwater 11
After their May nuptials at Wolf
Mountain Vineyards in Dahlonega,
Ga., Ryan Patrick ’02, M ’06 and
Sarah Elizabeth Sundberg PhD
’06 Jones honeymooned in St. Lucia.
Pictured from left in an original
display of Tiger pride are the groom,
his parents Anne Bailey ’73 and G.
Tripp ’71 Jones, and the bride.
Greetings from Baghdad
Biochemistry graduate Rob
12
Schuette ’03, serving in Iraq, is
pictured here with a Tiger Paw flag
of well wishes. He reports that while
South Carolina was in a heat wave
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last summer, he was working in
temperatures over 120 degrees.
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Tiger teachers
This lucky fourth-grade class at
Manassas Park Elementary School in
Virginia is assured a great education
because they have two Clemson
teachers — Cristin Vignola ’03
(top right) and Amanda Charest
’03 (top left).
R&R at Pisa
2004 graduates Daniel 14
Wackerhagen Jr. and his wife,
Erin Brazell, recently met in Italy
during Daniel’s two-week leave.
The biology graduate is a lieutenant
with the 2-237 Infantry Battalion of
the 101st Airborne Division serving
in Kirkuk, Iraq. Erin, an education
graduate, teaches high school
English in Clarksville, Tenn.
The Clemson Family
Passings
George Ladshaw Dozier Sr. ’31,
Marietta, Ga.
James A. Stanley Jr. ’49,
Nags Head, N.C.
Douglas Smith Sheorn ’84,
Washington, D.C.
Herbert Walker Fogle ’32, Denmark
William Stewart Adams ’50,
Salisbury, N.C.
Sonja Michelle Lemon Beachum ’88,
Aiken
William Edwin Dargan ’34, Darlington
John Lawrence Easterling ’50,
Spartanburg
Lisa Locke Neal ’89, Anderson
Simon Wolf ’34, Johnston
James Earl Millsap ’50, Gable
Ivan Mylnor Coleman ’35, Pamplico
James P. Parnell ’51, Latta
L. James Blakely ’39, Easley
Robert H. Rhodes ’52, Florence
Walter T. Cox Jr. ’39, HD ’86, president
Edgar M. Berry ’53, Hickory, N.C.
Marvin Lester Huckabee ’33, Camden
Clyde M. “Ray” Rauch Sr., honorary
Clemson, SC 29633-1889. For more on
James H. Erskine ’54, Mooresville, N.C.
alumnus, Lexington. Memorials may
Dean Cox’s Clemson legacy, see p. 18.
Alva Laverne McCaskill Jr. ’54,
Bishopville
Memorial Scholarship” fund payable to
Louis P. Parsons ’56, Georgetown
PO Box 1889, Clemson, SC 29633-1889.
arship” fund payable to the Clemson
Harrison Smith Forrester ’41,
Pawleys Island
Drewry N. Simpson ’41, Sunset
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George E. Goudelock ’43, Hartsville
John Lamar Sanders ’43, York
William A. Handley ’44, Atlanta, Ga.
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Carrie Ellen Williams ’00,
Charlotte, N.C.
Everette Winston Noel ’53, Johnston
made to the “Mary Johnson Cox Schol-
Marvin R. Kimbrell Jr. ’41,
Pensacola, Fla.
7
Linwood Ashwell Robinson III ’98,
Summerton
Christina Machen Alewine ’01,
Anderson
John Robert Henderson ’41, Cary, N.C.
5
Samuel Leonard Cobb ’94, Greenville
Ralph Clayton Jr. ’53, Graham, N.C.
emeritus, Clemson. Memorials may be
University Foundation at PO Box 1889,
14
Clemson World gives hometowns of deceased alumni when possible —
where they were from when they were Clemson students — to help former
classmates identify them.
be made to the “Chip Rauch Endowed
the Clemson University Foundation at
Robert H. Brooks ’60, Myrtle Beach.
Benefactor of the Brooks Center for the
Performing Arts and Brooks Institute for
Sports Science.
Ted Ashton Phillips ’60, Charleston
Henry H. Rentz ’62, Fairfax, Va.
Lawrence E. Carnes ’65, Jacksonville, Fla.
Marvin Davis Lindsay ’47, Clemson
Ernest Webster Sawyer M ’70,
Greensboro, N.C.
John Stephen Evans ’48, Clemson
Frances Ayers Tadlock ’75, Greenville
O’Neal Miller Jr. ’48, Wagener
Janet Lea Rada ’77, Anderson
Leon Hunter Moore ’48, Clemson
Robin Ann Bickley ’79, Greenville
Lawrence G. Adams ’49, Seneca
Marion Howard Adams ’82, Seneca
William Julian Arnette ’49, Winnsboro
Karen Helton Chisholm ’82, Spartanburg
J. Thomas Cox ’49, Greenwood
Audrey McCormick Pace ’82, Lexington
Faculty and Staff
Claire Russell Aucoin, retired
mathematics professor, Seneca.
Memorials may be made to the “Claire
and Clayton Aucoin Endowment”
payable to the Clemson University
Foundation at PO Box 1889, Clemson,
SC 29633-1889.
Ruby Mae Craven, longtime Clemson
Extension agent, Darlington
Jarrett Foster, assistant men’s track
coach, Forest City, N.C.
Larry R. Nelson, forestry and natural
resources department professor and
Extension specialist, Central
Richard Eston Norwood ’49, Due West
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Newsmakers
Gator wrestlin’ on CBS News
In a cosmic twist of fate, Brent Carey ’06 may have put his wildlife management
degree to work to save a life. Carey and professional communications graduate Jessica
Turner ’05 were relaxing in a park in Charleston in early July when Turner’s dog,
Chance, was snatched by an alligator.
Carey reacted quickly, grabbing the alligator and wrestling it (and its attention)
away from the dog. Chance and Carey escaped with minor injuries. The alligator was
less fortunate. The story made CBS’s “The Early Show” and other media of the day.
Angel flier in AutoPilot
Joe Blandford ’58,
of Tallahassee, Fla.,
was featured in the
July/August issue of
AutoPilot magazine.
Blandford volunteers
with Angel Flight, a
nonprofit organization that flies people
with sick children
or family members
to medical facilities
or to a better place
for care giving. The
organization averages
22,000 flights annually.
Pilots like Blandford donate their time, plane use, fuel,
maintenance and insurance costs. Their work is supported
by Earth Angels, volunteers who coordinate missions.
Climbing TLC’s ‘Property Ladder’
‘Extreme … Home’ engineering
Clemson civil engineering professor Scott Schiff and his students appear in a segment of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”
on ABC as host Ty Pennington and crew seek to rebuild a house
destroyed by a tornado.
Schiff and his students also are part of “Ultimate Disasters:
Tornado,” a National Geographic Channel feature about a 1997
tornado that hovered over the town of Jarrell, Texas. The storm
destroyed buildings and killed 27 people.
The show features the University’s Wind Load Test Facility and
what Clemson researchers are doing to make storm shelters and
other buildings more secure in high winds. Clemson’s facility is
one of the nation’s top laboratories for the study of wind effects on
low-rise structures.
Quantum dots in Journal of ACS
Clemson’s “quantum dots” made the pages of the
prestigious Journal of the American Chemistry Society,
the most-cited chemical and relatedsciences
journal, earlier this year. The June 2006 issue
reports the findings of Clemson researchers, led by
professor Ya-Ping Sun, in developing a new type of
quantum dot that may improve biological sensors,
medical imaging devices and LEDs.
The dots are made from carbon, which is less
toxic and more environmentally safe than the usual
metal-based dots. They may also help in detection
of chemicals often associated with biological
warfare. Sun holds the Frank Henry Leslie Endowed
Chair of Natural and Physical Sciences.
Third generation alumnus and marketing graduate John Skandamis ’93 of
Orlando, Fla., made the plasma screen recently on TLC. He and a friend are
featured in TLC’s “Property Ladder,” a series in which do-it-yourselfers purchase
a property, renovate it and then sell
it for a profit. In the episode “Feuding
Friends and the Demo Debacle,” which
began airing in August, Skandamis
often wears a Clemson T-shirt and
other Tiger fare. As a result, he says
he’s heard from Tigers all around the
country. When he’s not appearing on
TV, Skandamis is branch manager for Majestic Mortgage Corp. He also attends
Clemson football viewing parties in Orlando.
He’s pictured here with daughter Hannah, hostess Kirsten Kemp and wife
Michelle on the set of show.
Disney’s best
Science and physics teacher Pat Welsh ’75, M ’82 received the
2006 national award as Disney High School Teacher of the Year in
August. Welsh teaches at Daniel High School in Central.
Earlier this year he was named Aerospace Education
Foundation’s National Teacher of the Year. At Clemson, Welsh
earned degrees in zoology and bioengineering. He went on to
Georgia for a veterinary medicine degree and ultimately found his
calling in the classroom.
Special education
graduate Kathryn
Pilcher ’04 along with
two co-teachers at
Dutchtown Middle
Kathryn Pilcher
School in Geismar,
La., received the 2006
Teacher of the Year Award, the first teaching team ever to do so. They were also
named Middle School Teacher of the Year and received the Youth Service America
Award. She’s pictured (above, left) with team teachers Amanda Mayeaux and
Monique Wild.
Welsh and Pilcher accepted their awards during the Disney Teacher Awards Gala
in Anaheim, Calif., hosted by stars of the Disney Channel’s High School Musical and
Pat Welsh
broadcast live on the Internet.
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New Tax Law Brings New Opportunities with Your IRA Accounts
For the last decade, the charitable community has been actively lobbying Congress for a change in the tax law.
Commitment
One exciting but time-limited opportunity arising from these efforts is Individual Retirement Account (IRA) Charitable Rollover legislation
that passed the House and Senate in August. President Bush signed the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA 2006), which includes special
new incentives for those age 70 and a half and older who would like to make charitable gifts directly from their individual retirement accounts.
Oxford Tiger
Undergraduate Sean Michael Tynan, a genetics major, is Clemson’s 2006
Christopher J. Duckenfield Scholar. The scholarship program, in memory of
longtime Clemson administrator Chris Duckenfield,
identifies a member of the
University’s Calhoun Honors
College who demonstrates extraordinary talent, motivation,
commitment and ability.
Tynan is pictured, front row,
center, with his family and the
Duckenfield family. Earlier this
year, he spent six weeks in
England studying medieval history at St. Peter’s College, Oxford.
“Studying at Oxford provided me with a rare opportunity to reach outside
my academic comfort zone and experience another culture,” says Tynan.
For more information on the scholarship, contact Stephen Wainscott,
director of Calhoun Honors College, at (864) 656-4762 or [email protected].
Project WISE 2006
Duke Energy for diversity
Seasoning
Entrepreneur
Joe Crosby, creator
of Coach’s Low
Country Boil
Seasoning and
owner of T-60
Grill in Fair Play,
is donating to
Clemson part of
the profits from
sales of his popular
seasoning.
Special containers of the seasoning, marked (and licensed) with the
Clemson Tiger Paw, can be found in Wal-Mart, BI-LO,
White Jones Hardware & Sporting Goods, Piggly Wiggly
and IGA stores and online at www.coachslowcountryboil.com.
Two dollars from each jar sold will go to Clemson — $1
for athletics and $1 for academics. Of the money for academics, 75 percent will be unrestricted and 25 percent will
go to Call Me MISTER®, a program to put more African
American male teachers in S.C. elementary classrooms.
Timken Chair
Duke Energy Foundation has awarded a $90,000 gift to Clemson’s
College of Engineering and Science for three programs that
promote diversity on campus.
Part of the award supports programming for Clemson’s student
chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers. Another part
goes to the PEER (Programs for Educational Enrichment and
Retention) Math Excellence Workshop, a summer session of precalculus and calculus.
The award also supports Project WISE (Women in Science and
Engineering), pictured, which offers a summer camp for rising
eighth-grade girls who learn engineering and science firsthand.
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An endowment created by
public-private partnerships has
attracted another top scholar and
international expert to the Clemson
University International Center for
Automotive Research (CU-ICAR).
John C. Ziegert holds the
Timken Chair in Automotive
Design and Development. The position is supported by an endowment
made possible by private gifts matched dollar-for-dollar by
the state of South Carolina from lottery-generated funds
earmarked for economic development initiatives.
Ziegert will lead research initiatives in analysis and
design of precision machining for automotive applications
and coordinate collaborative research and development
projects between the University’s R&D resources and The
Timken Co.’s onsite engineering group.
No income tax deductions are available for IRA gifts; however, IRA donors can still save taxes. In fact, making charitable contributions
through an IRA in 2006 and 2007 can enable donors to increase the size of their usual contributions.
The charitable IRA rollover provision of the PPA provides a significant but limited opportunity to tap this important asset source for charitable gifts in 2006 and
2007. Direct transfers from IRAs to qualified charitable organizations will count toward the minimum distributions requirements that apply
to account owners over age 70 and a half. That means donors will not owe tax on any portion of their “required minimum distribution” that is diverted to
worthwhile causes. In effect, the tax collector’s share would go to the donor’s favorite charity.
To qualify: • Donor must be age 70 and a half or older;
• Transfers must go directly from a traditional IRA or Roth IRA to the qualified charities;
• Gifts cannot exceed $100,000 per taxpayer per year;
• No charitable deductions are allowed; however, gift amounts will not be included in donor’s income.
WHICH RETIREMENT PLANS ARE ELIGIBLE? — Traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs only. Other forms of retirement plans such as 401(k)
and 403(b), defined benefit and contribution plans, profit sharing plans, Keoghs and employer-sponsored SEPs and SIMPLE plans are not
eligible. However, you may be able to roll an amount from one of the other retirement accounts into a traditional IRA and then use your IRA
Rollover to make a gift.
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTIVE DATES? — 2006 and 2007. Distributions must be delivered to the charity no later than December 31st of the
year for the exclusion.
WHO CAN EXCLUDE THE IRA DISTRIBUTION? — Individuals who have reached age 70 and a half by the date of contribution. It is
important to distinguish this rule from the rule that requires plan participants to begin receiving minimum required distributions in the same
year they reach age 70 and a half and no later than April 1st of the year following the year in which they attain age 70 and a half.
IS THERE A LIMITATION ON THE AMOUNT? — $100,000 per taxpayer per year. Therefore, a married couple could donate up to $200,000
provided each spouse owns at least one IRA and each can make a qualified charitable distribution of $100,000 from their plans.
CAN QUALIFIED CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTIONS BE APPLIED IN SATISFACTION OF A PLAN OWNER’S MINIMUM REQUIRED
DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE YEAR? — Yes. If, for example, participants are required to withdraw 6 percent from their IRA
for the year, they can direct the entire amount to charity in satisfaction of their minimum required distribution.
Gifts to qualified charities may be subject to tax under federal law and the laws of many states. Some taxpayers may encounter limits on the
amount of charitable gifts they can deduct and see other benefits phased out as their income increases. Retired persons may also find that
increases in income can cause more of their Social Security benefits to be taxed. In other cases, they may not be in a position to benefit fully
from their charitable deductions.
Individuals who are required to take unneeded IRA withdrawals and others who have experienced limitations on tax benefits in the past will find the new law
of particular interest. It is important to note that assets in IRAs are not only subject to income tax when withdrawn during one’s lifetime or by
survivors, but they may also be subject to estate tax if left to loved ones other than a spouse. Please be advised that if you have an interest in
supporting Clemson through your estate plan, it may benefit you and your family to give a portion of your IRA assets to Clemson at death
because these assets have the potential to be the most heavily taxed.
ACT NOW FOR GREATEST BENEFITS!
The PPA 2006 provides a wealth of exciting new planning opportunities. To maximize the full benefit of this two-year gift planning opportunity, you must complete each year’s transfer prior to December 31st. Check with your legal or tax adviser about the best way to take advantage
of these new giving opportunities.
For more information or discussion about gift planning, please call JoVanna J. King, senior director of gift and estate planning, at
(864) 656-0663 or 1-800-699-9153. Or email your questions to [email protected].
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Taps
With pen and paper
and a powerful vision,
the University was born.
DAVE LEWIS
The Clemson Legacy Society honors alumni and friends who make provisions in their wills to
support the University. To continue Thomas Green Clemson’s legacy, please contact JoVanna
King at (800) 699-9153, (864) 656-0663 or [email protected].