Roots of the University Distinguished Service Awards Training TIGERS 6 Words or Less WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING 2013 CLEMSON #clemsonworld SPRING 2013 c CLEMSON WORLD — 1 Home. Town. Classic. Content SPRING 2013 Volume 67, Number 2 CLEMSONCWORLDWMAGAZINE Features 13 My Clemson experience 22 In six words or less. 16 Training Tigers for the real world Client-Based Writing Program prepares students to write professionally. 18 Technostress Working in a digital age can be nerve wracking. 22 The Roots of the University Student Organic Farm leads the way in sustainable farming. Departments President’s View 4 28 Determined Spirits University honors five with Distinguished Upfront 6 Service Awards. Clemson Family Lifelong Tigers 30 EXTRAS ON THE WEB Landmarks & Legends — 34 28 View Clemson World online with lots of Web extras at Clemson’s history in 8-inch squares clemson.edu/clemsonworld. Giving Back 36 Get the Alumni Association’s mobile app for your smartphone at clemson.edu/alumni/app. My Clemson — 38 Stay Connected, Alanna Walker discovered Check out the University’s social networks page for another side of life. Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, news and calendar feeds, and much more at clemson.edu/campus-life/social-media/ on Your Front Porch. index.html. One-of-a-kind traditional architecture with open floor plans 18 See the University’s FlicKR site at www.flickr.com/photos/ and sustainable green-building methods combine to create clemsonuniversity/collections for photos from campus, vintage collections, regional events and more. homes like no other. Vibrant community events, 62 acres of natural beauty and on-site lifelong learning classes make Join us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/clemsonalumni and www.facebook.com/clemsonworld. this a place that connects, inspires, educates and uplifts. Welcome to Patrick Square, where friendships are forged, traditions created and Southern hospitality thrives. New homes from the $230s to the $400s Cover photo: Lisa Walker ’03 (see story on page 14). Photo by Craig Mahaffey. Now Building in Phase III Where Legacies Begin PatrickSquare.com • • • 2 — CLEMSON WORLD c SPRING 2013 578 Issaqueena Trail Clemson, SC 29631 864-654-1500 Models Open Daily SPRING 2013 c CLEMSON WORLD — 3 CW Executive Editor CW President’s View Dave Dryden, HA ’12 Art Director Judy Morrison Editor Nancy M. Spitler A time 864-656-0737 Classes Editor & Advertising Director for change Sallie Culbertson 864-656-7897 Contributors Dale Cochran Molly Collins The personal journey or the first time in 14 years as Clemson’s president, the volume of mail I Debbie Dunning received this semester was so great that I could not even consider answering Catherine Sams I have taken in the all of it. Jonathan Veit So forgive me if I use this space in Clemson World in a very personal way — Media Relations Creative Services first half of 2013 led Fto say thank you to alumni and others who sent messages of support, encouragement me to conclude that and gratitude, and to reflect on what I learned during my “medical sabbatical” and return Photographers to duty this spring. Patrick Wright this is the right time to Craig Mahaffey “change majors” from Lessons learned University Officials First, I learned that the “Clemson Family” is very real. After my heart surgery in January, President the president’s office to Marcia and I received literally thousands of cards, letters, emails and posts to a special James F. Barker Lee Hall simply because “get well” blog. And when I say “literally,” I mean it in the classic not ironic sense — Board of Trustees literally thousands! These messages were a vital part of my recovery. David H. Wilkins, chair Clemson University is in Some were heartfelt and touching. Others were funny. Many alumni welcomed me to Robert L. Peeler, vice chair membership in the “zipper club.” They shared stories of their own or a family member’s Bill L. Amick David E. Dukes such good shape. improved health and well-being after the same surgery. Leon J. Hendrix Jr. Second, I learned that it is humbling and healthy for a pilot to step out of the cockpit office until the new president is found and begins work. After that, I will begin preparing for the Ronald D. Lee and into the passenger cabin once in a while. When you do, you quickly learn there are next phase of my Clemson career as a faculty member in the School of Architecture. Louis B. Lynn many people capable of flying the plane. This is a transition I had always planned to make, and it is not directly related to my surgery. Patricia Herring McAbee To paraphrase something former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor once I feel good, have a high level of energy and plan to remain engaged. But the personal journey John N. McCarter Jr. E. Smyth McKissick III said: When you think you are important or essential, stick your hand in a bucket of water I have taken in the first half of 2013 led me to conclude that this is the right time to “change William C. Smith Jr. and then pull it out. The hole you leave behind is how much you will be missed. majors” from the president’s office to Lee Hall simply because Clemson University is in such Joseph D. Swann Clemson University is and always has been larger than the individuals who serve her good shape. Kim Allen Wilkerson at any given point in time. We have a high demand for everything about Clemson. We’re attracting great students, Today, we have many, many dedicated and able folks working for Clemson’s success faculty and staff. We are blessed with alumni support and a capital campaign that has been ©2013 Clemson University — faculty, staff, administrators, Trustees and volunteer leaders. So I am also grateful to very, very successful. We are financially healthy; in fact, we are in better shape financially than Clemson World is published three times a year Chairman David Wilkins, Provost Dori Helms and all others who stepped in to keep the we were before the Great Recession. And we have a plan that has broad support by our alumni for alumni and friends of Clemson University by the Division of Advancement. Editorial offices University machine running smoothly in my absence. and, most importantly perhaps, by our Board of Trustees. are in the Department of Creative Services, Finally, I learned that though my arteries were blocked, my heart was and is We are on an upward path, and I pledge to do everything I can to continue this positive Clemson University, 114 Daniel Dr., Clemson, SC very strong. momentum. 29631-1520 (FAX: 864-656-5004). Copyright© Eight weeks after my surgery and two days after this picture was taken, Marcia and It has been the honor and privilege of my life to serve as your 14th president, and I will Creative Services, Clemson University. Story I left for a trip to Germany and Italy. I met with BMW’s Board of Directors in Munich, always be grateful to Clemson students, faculty, staff and alumni for giving me a chance to ideas and letters are welcome, but publisher and we attended the 40th anniversary celebration of our architecture center in Genoa. serve my alma mater in this special way. assumes no responsibility for return of unsolicited manuscripts or art. Send address It was a wonderful trip in a beautiful place. We were happy to be there, and even happier Thank you very much. Go, Tigers! changes to Records, Clemson University to be home. Foundation, 155 Tiger Park, Ste. 105, Clemson, SC 29631, email to Alumni_Records-L@ Changing majors clemson.edu or call 1-800-313-6517. I returned from my medical leave on March 29 and two weeks later asked the Board of James F. Barker, FAIA CLEMSON WORLD th President Trustees to begin its search for the 15 president of Clemson University. I will remain in Corporate Sponsors ARAMARK http://blogs.clemson.edu/barkers-blog/category/blogs/ College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities Patrick Square 4 — CLEMSON WORLD c SPRING 2013 SPRING 2013 c CLEMSON WORLD — 5 CW Upfront Collaborating to solve the world’s problems Indoor practice facility open for business Facing Cherry Road, just adjacent to the P&A Building, sits the new Life Sciences On Jan. 25, with the weather demonstrating the need for such a facility, fans and friends facility where microbiology, biochemistry, food safety and genetics researchers gathered to dedicate and tour the new Clemson Football Indoor Practice Facility, an collaborate in state-of-the-art laboratories to find solutions to the world’s prob- 80,000-square-foot, $10 million structure. Adjacent to the football practice fields and the lems. Designed to be highly energy efficient, the 100,000-square-foot facility is indoor track facility, it includes a full-sized synthetic turf football field. High above the field, targeted to achieve LEED gold status. coaches can view practice from a long platform. In order to simulate a gameday experience, Dedicated on Feb. 8, the facility includes the Leica Microsystems Imaging there is a fully functional, game-ready scoreboard inside the facility along with four play-clocks Suite, housed in a 2,400-square-foot laboratory on the ground floor, which will be and a video board equal to the size of the ones in Memorial Stadium. part of the Clemson Light Imaging Facility used by more than 60 principal investi- It won’t be just the football team that uses the new facility; men’s and women’s soccer will gator laboratories and five businesses. The support of Leica Microsystems, a world share the strength and conditioning area and training room as well as equipment storage space.