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Wind Energy Quest Clemson Scholars, World Smart DSA 2010 DEEP ORANGE WORLD MAGAZINE CLEMSON SPRING 2010 energy Wind quest ContentsSpring 2010 Volume 63, Number 2 CLEMSONWORLDMAGAZINE CW 20 FEATURES 10 Clemson at forefront of wind energy quest Discover what wind energy will mean to us and how the University will play a central role. 13 Lifelong Tigers Meet the Alumni Association’s 2010 Distinguished Service Award recipients. 16 Clemson Scholars show world smarts See how Clemson National Scholars are living 44 up to their name. DEPARTMENTS 20 Deep Orange gets the green light 7 Find out why the car of the not-too-distant president’s View 2 future just might be Deep Orange. Upfront 4 Clemson Family Classmates 26 Lifelong Connections 40 EXTRAS ON THE WEB Landmarks & Legends — 44 Check out See the View Clemson Join us on So that we never forget — The stories behind Clemson’s new the Alumni University’s World online Facebook Scroll of Honor Memorial Association’s year in review with lots of Web at www. Giving Back 46 fresh new look at “Clemson extras at www. facebook.com/ My Clemson — 48 www.clemson. 2009” at www. clemson.edu/ clemsonalumni Air Force Capt. Justin edu/alumni/ youtube.com/ clemsonworld. and www. Long ’03 brand-video. clemson facebook.com/ htm. university. clemsonworld. 48 CW DYK? “Did You Know” facts about Clemson University. 16 www.clemson.edu/clemsonworld SPRING 2010 — Clemson World 1 CW President’s View Uniquely CLEMSONCWORLDWMAGAZINE Executive Editor Dave Dryden Art Director Clemson Judy Morrison Editor Liz Newall n article in this issue tells the story behind Clemson’s most visible new 864-656-0737 landmark, the Scroll of Honor Memorial. It was dedicated this spring in a Classes Editor & “Alumni classes and ceremony that was both moving and significant. Advertising Director Sallie Leigh Located just across the street from Memorial Stadium and Howard’s Rock, 864-656-7897 other constituent the Scroll of Honor Memorial pays tribute to all 468 Clemson alumni who, Contributors to this date in history, have died in service to our country. Scroll of Honor Memorial groundbreaking in 2008 Dale Cochran Debbie Dunning ABut what does this new landmark have in common with other prominent campus features Catherine Sams groups have supported Now flash forward 70 years. The Class of 2009 will leave its mark on Clemson by like the Carillon Garden, Cox Plaza or the stone entrance gates? Media Relations putting its class gift toward the expansion, renovation and restoration of Lee Hall. Why? Creative Services Because Lee Hall is Clemson’s top priority for facilities support right now. projects to enhance Each of these uniquely Clemson sites was made possible by gifts from alumni, students Photographers or organizations, even the ’55 Exchange in Hendrix Student Center, where you buy your In the midst of a once-in-a-generation recession (we hope!), this dedicated and Patrick Wright or shape our campus, Clemson ice cream and blue cheese. pragmatic group of seniors asked me: “What is Clemson’s most pressing need today?” Craig Mahaffey University Officials Over the years, alumni classes and other constituent groups have supported projects to We answered by outlining our top priorities for private donations: President enhance or shape our campus, or to enrich the educational experience for thousands of James F. Barker or to enrich the • student support, including undergraduate scholarships, and graduate student Clemson students. fellowships and assistantships Board of Trustees David H. Wilkins, chairman; Some classes and groups want to invest in bricks-and-mortar that beautify the campus faculty support, including professorships, chairs, awards and other stipends educational experience • William C. Smith Jr., vice chairman; or provide facilities we need for teaching, research or service. Others invest directly in • Lee Hall Bill L. Amick, people. They leave a perpetual living legacy by creating endowments that fund student John J. Britton, of Clemson students.” scholarships and fellowships, or faculty awards, chairs and professorships. Leon J. Hendrix Jr., Lee Hall is outdated and seriously overcrowded. It has about half the space needed Louis B. Lynn, Patricia Herring McAbee, The Clemson Corps, for example, gives to the Scroll of Honor Memorial and to ROTC for the programs and students it serves. While other building priorities had to be John N. McCarter Jr., scholarships. The Tiger Band Association supports awards and scholarships for student postponed for budget reasons last year, Lee Hall rose to the top of our priority list E. Smyth McKissick III, because it also qualified for federal stimulus funding, which Thomas B. McTeer Jr., musicians. Robert L. Peeler, is restricted to renovation and maintenance projects. Joseph D. Swann The Class of 1939 has done it all — literally. They hit a triple by giving to physical here are too many notable © 2010 Clemson University We broke ground on the Lee Hall project in April, with improvements in the S.C. Botanical Garden, to student scholarships and to faculty Tcampus building and Clemson World is published for alumni and support. the help of the Class of 2009. These young people, our landscape projects to list each friends of Clemson University by the Division of youngest alumni, have stepped up to join the long and proud Advancement. Editorial offices are in the Depart- one. A small sample includes: ment of Creative Services, Clemson University, The Class of 1939 Faculty Award for Excellence is one of the most coveted honors a line of Clemson men and women whose generosity has left Class of 1944 Visitors Center, 114 Daniel Dr., Clemson, SC 29631-1520 (FAX: © Clemson University faculty member can receive. It recognizes the highest achievement in its mark on our students and our campus forever. 864-656-5004). Copyright Creative Services, Class of 1957 Rotunda in Clemson University. Story ideas and letters are service to the student body, the University and the community. It also includes a $5,000 President’s Park and Class welcome, but publisher assumes no responsibil- stipend and honorary membership in the class. Our gratitude to all of you is impossible to calculate. It will ity for return of unsolicited manuscripts or art. of 1960 North Campus Green Send address changes to Records, Clemson endure forever, too. project. University Foundation, 155 Tiger Park, Ste. 105, As a result, this remarkable class is actually growing, instead of shrinking. They passed Clemson, SC 29633 (FAX: 864-656-1692), or call 1-800-313-6517. the leadership gavel to their honorary members at their 70th reunion last year. The Class To find your class project, of 1939 will live forever because of that endowed award to honor our University’s best go to cualumni.clemson.edu/ CLEMSON WORLD Corporate Sponsors and most devoted faculty members. James F. Barker, FAIA classprojects. For more giving ARAMARK President information, go to www.clemson. The Clemson Corps edu/giving. Coca-Cola Company Patrick Square The Reserve SPRING 2010 — Clemson World 3 2 Clemson World — SPRING 2010 CW Upfront proterra brings jobs, clean-energy research Rocket launch at Poker Flat ROTERRA INC., WHICH DEVELOPS AND ASSEMBLES Proterra anticipates that it will invest $68 million fuel cell hybrid-powered transit vehicles, will locate and create 1,300 new jobs over the next seven years in Pa facility Greenville County. for research and The company will development as well require a variety of as assembly at the skilled workers to Clemson University support functions International Center such as mechanical for Automotive assembly, Research (CU-ICAR) warehouse, in Greenville. logistics, “This new facility management, will be our fi rst engineering and R. Vernon Williams (left), quality assurance. president and CEO of full-scale, state- Students (from left) Brian Battey, Lucas Hurd It will lease 25 palmettoNet, and Bryant of-the-art research and Tyler Scott stand on the frozen Chena g. Barnes (center), and development acres in CU- River in Fairbanks. president and CEO of and manufacturing facility for our groundbreaking clean ICAR’s Technology Neighborhood Three to construct a Comporium, with Clemson STUDENTS TRAVELED TO FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, president Jim Barker. transportation solutions,” says Jeff Granato, CEO of Proterra 240,000-square-foot building initially, with potential with physics and astronomy professor Miguel Inc. expansion into the entire 50-acre site. Larsen in February to conduct a rocket launch to The company and its partners design, develop and Proterra’s very fi rst vehicle, a battery-dominant fuel study the interaction between the ionosphere assemble all-electric and battery-dominant hybrid drive cell-hybrid transit bus funded by the transit administration, and the atmosphere in the auroral oval from the optoelectronics research Center of Economic Excellence is in service in Columbia. The company is headquartered solutions and complete vehicles for commercial applications, rocket range at Poker Flat. While there, the in Golden, Colo. For more on Proterra, go to www. including transit, school and commercial buses; parcel Clemson group took in the start of the annual RIVATE GIFTS FROM TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANIES COMPORIUM proterraonline.com. For more about CU-ICAR, go to www. delivery vehicles; and other class 4-8 trucks. Yukon Quest dogsled race between Fairbanks Pand PalmettoNet of South Carolina, along with a state match, have raised cuicar.com. and Whitehorse. $4 million to establish an Optoelectronics Research Center of Economic For several years, Larsen has guided Clemson Excellence at Clemson. CW DYK? students in NASA-funded research at the The new Center of Economic Excellence — in Clemson’s Holcombe University of Alaska Geophysical Institute’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering — will be supported by Double the knowledge, double the experience Poker Flat Research Range, Alaska’s center the PalmettoNet Endowed Chair in Optoelectronics and the Comporium Fund Community service for arctic space and atmospheric research.