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Memories of an academic neophyte Creating community Doing the right thing My Clemson Home. Town. Classic. Content WINTER 2013 Volume 67, Number 1 CLEMSONCWORLDWMAGAZINE Features 12 I remember 18 Professor June Pilcher shares “memories of an academic neophyte.” 14 Creating community Clemson’s themed residential communities are among the nation’s best. © Cecil Williams Cecil © 18 Doing the right thing Fifty years ago, Harvey Gantt took a step that began a campus transformation. 22 Clemson roots and Nashville dreams Departments Tigers are working hard to make a living President’s View 2 in Music City. Upfront 4 Clemson Family Lifelong Tigers 30 EXTRAS ON THE WEB Landmarks & Legends — 34 View Clemson World online with lots of Web extras at 14 . Clif Collins shares memories clemson.edu/clemsonworld of campus legend Louis Henry. Get Clemson World’s tablet issue. Just go to Giving Back 36 the Apple App Store, Android Marketplace or Amazon Appstore and download the free My Clemson — 38 Clemson World app. Ofori-Dwumfuo was born in Ghana, but found family here. Get the Alumni Association’s mobile app for your Stay Connected, smartphone at clemson.edu/alumni/app. Check out the University’s social networks page CW DYK? “Did You Know” facts for Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, news and on Your Front Porch. about Clemson University calendar feeds, and much more at 10 clemson.edu/ Behind the traditional façades and gracious campus-life/social-media/index.html. See the University’s FlicKR site at flickr.com/photos/ interiors at Patrick Square lies a network of clemsonuniversity/collections for photos from campus, advanced technologies delivering fast, reliable vintage collections, regional events and more. communications and services that save time Join us on Facebook at facebook.com/clemsonalumni and money. Come, experience this skillful blend of and facebook.com/clemsonworld. See CW Travelers online at clemson.edu/clemsonworld/ engineering and elegance — for today and tomorrow. travelers/ New homes from the $230s to the $400s Cover photo: Doug McCormick (see story on page 20). Photo by Now Building in Phase III 22 Craig Mahaffey, Illustration by Nathan Smith VIS-ART ’12 PatrickSquare.comPATRICKSQUARE.COM 578 Issaqueena Trail • Clemson, SC 29631 • 864-654-1500 • Models Open Daily CW CW President’s View Executive Editor Dave Dryden, HA ’12 Art Director Judy Morrison Editor It’s time to reinvest in Nancy M. Spitler 864-656-0737 Classes Editor & Advertising Director higher education Sallie Culbertson 864-656-7897 Contributors “Clemson is gaining I will always remember the second half of the year 2012 as Dale Cochran a time when Clemson waved our big, orange flag on a large, Debbie Dunning national recognition Catherine Sams national stage. Media Relations as an innovative We were ranked in the top 25 among national public universities for the fifth Creative Services consecutive year, had a well-attended Clemson Club meeting in the heart of New Photographers university that is York City, were named “The South’s Best Tailgate” by Southern Living magazine, and Patrick Wright made it onto a national list of 13 “surprisingly hot schools.” Craig Mahaffey ‘back on offense’ with More importantly, Clemson is gaining national recognition as an innovative University Officials university that is “back on offense” with groundbreaking programs to help students, groundbreaking programs support workforce development and spur economic prosperity. President to help students, support James F. Barker Getting the word out Board of Trustees I was privileged to be among a handful of college presidents invited to meet with David H. Wilkins, chair workforce development The Research Infrastructure Act and Endowed Chairs program (now the SmartState program) top editors at The Chronicle of Higher Education and, later, NBC News and its Robert L. Peeler, vice chair were the keys to building CU-ICAR and the Restoration Institute, which have been leveraged into and spur economic education division. Bill L. Amick additional investments from the private sector, and attracted world-class faculty members to South David E. Dukes These conversations led to three stories in The Chronicle, one about our Carolina. These, in turn, have helped raise Clemson’s national profile and our ability to compete. Leon J. Hendrix Jr. prosperity.” innovative new University Professional Internship-Cooperative education program. Ronald D. Lee More than 100 students this year are in paid, on-campus internships, gaining Investing in education and infrastructure Louis B. Lynn valuable work experience and helping us “run the university machine.” By 2015 Patricia Herring McAbee we expect to be able to offer 500 such opportunities. The genius of the American economy and our system of government has always been to focus public John N. McCarter Jr. I was also invited to represent Clemson as speaker on a panel discussion of investments in education and infrastructure that support a robust private economy. E. Smyth McKissick III “The Innovative and Entrepreneurial University” held in Washington, D.C., at the Through every business cycle since our founding in the 19th century, Clemson University William C. Smith Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce and the White House. I told them about the robust has continued to provide the human capital that makes prosperity possible. A recent statewide Joseph D. Swann and successful approach to public-private partnerships at places like the Clemson economic impact study conducted by the Strom Thurmond Institute confirms that is still the case. Kim Allen Wilkerson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR). Clemson is still providing a very strong return on the state’s investment. We are a net funder of state ©2013 Clemson University Finally, two days before this column wrapped, I participated in a by-invitation- and local government, contributing millions more than the University receives in appropriations. only dinner for a small group of university presidents to meet with national media Our private investors — the families who pay tuition, our corporate partners and funders, and Clemson World is published three times a year for alumni and friends of Clemson University by representatives, again in New York City. It resulted immediately in Clemson being the donors to the Will to Lead campaign — are doing their part. As the economy recovers, a timely and appropriate state investment in new initiatives, facilities the Division of Advancement. Editorial offices quoted in a national story on the potential negative effects of federal spending are in the Department of Creative Services, and technology would ensure Clemson’s ability to prepare a workforce for the 21st century economy sequestration if our nation’s leaders cannot work together to avoid falling off the Clemson University, 114 Daniel Dr., Clemson, SC fiscal cliff. and help Clemson graduates remain competitive. 29631-1520 (FAX: 864-656-5004). Copyright© Creative Services, Clemson University. Story Time for offense ideas and letters are welcome, but publisher assumes no responsibility for return of By the time you read this, I hope we have avoided fiscal suicide and are in a position, unsolicited manuscripts or art. Send address as a nation, to nourish the economic recovery that is under way. If so, I believe it changes to Records, Clemson University would be time for our entire state, like Clemson, to get “back on offense.” James F. Barker, FAIA Foundation, 155 Tiger Park, Ste. 105, Clemson, Unlike some states, South Carolina took strong measures early in the recession, SC 29631, email to President Alumni_Records-L@ and did not fall into the trap of spending one-time federal stimulus money on clemson.edu or call 1-800-313-6517. permanent expenses. Although tough decisions were made in Columbia and Clemson, our state is positioned to move into the future with a determination to CLEMSON WORLD Corporate Sponsors start investing again in higher education. ARAMARK When we have done that in the past, it has paid off. College of Architecture, Arts and The Palmetto Fellows and LIFE Scholarship programs have reversed the brain Humanities drain, enabling thousands of top students to remain in South Carolina to study, live Patrick Square and work. 4 — CLEMSON WORLD c WINTER 2013 WINTER 2013 c CLEMSON WORLD — 5 CW Upfront he students squeal delightfully, clapping their Students rewarded for design hands at their success, as the Styrofoam sailboat and creativity Astronaut teams up Twith its construction paper sail traverses the white gutter in less than the required 15 seconds. With Gilbert with Clemson to teach THE CHAllENGE: guidance from NASA astronaut Col. Patrick Forrester, the honored as Design a functional kids technology and Clemson Elementary second-grade class is participating and creative package engineering in the Integrative STEM Education program, designed Presidential to improve science, technology, engineering and math Endowed for a quick-serve learning in South Carolina. chain kids’ meal and Forrester recently joined the College of Health, Chair address how the plans Education and Human Development as an adjunct could be altered to professor in an effort to support STEM education in serve an additional conjunction with Clemson’s STEM initiative. purpose. “What I bring to the table is a unique background and That’s what experience,” Forrester said. In his NASA career he made Clemson’s packaging four spacewalks and coordinated five spacewalks for other astronauts. He is retired from the Army. science team started “Since beginning in July, Forrester has made with. What they ended numerous presentations to various audiences, including up with was “Starboard Sandwiches,” a colorful boat-shaped container that K-16 students, administrators, parents, business and holds the drink in the center and the sandwich in the stern. The side of industry leaders,” said Bill Havice, associate dean and rofessor Juan Gilbert has been named the first carrots sits on top of the sandwich; condiments, a straw and napkin fit in Presidential Endowed Chair in Human-Centered professor in Clemson’s College of Health, Education an opening at the front.