The Greenwood Club celebrated Greenwood Clemson Tiger Day with 250 alumni, friends and fans in uptown Greenwood around the Tiger Topiary. Four football players — Jim Brown, D.J. Reader, Bradley Pinion and Stephone Anthony — and Coach Mike Reed attended the event, as well as four cheerleaders and the Tiger. Greenwood’s own PGA golfer Ben Martin […]
On any given day, the center of Clemson’s campus is a unique blend of bustling students rushing to class and relaxed students enjoying the outdoors during their break in the day. The library stands tall and white against the sky, opening its massive glass doors to those who need to work, while just a short […]
Celebrating 60 Years of The Tiger Sixty years ago, the Clemson family grew by one, one who quickly became one of the most recognizable, lovable and iconic members of the family: the Tiger mascot. He’s been to every football game since his welcome to the Clemson family, done thousands of push-ups, visited hospitals and even […]
“Pop-up” Engineer Take a biology major, mix in a portion of art training and a large serving of creativity, and what do you get? A pop-up engineer! That’s the combination that resulted in a successful career for author, illustrator and paper engineer, Matthew Reinhart. Reinhart began his Clemson experience with intentions of becoming a physician, […]
Alumni return to Brooks Center with “super” production If you saw a bolt from the blue last October, it wasn’t Superman. It was Clemson alumni of the Wishbone Theatre Collective, swooping in to perform their super hero-themed play, SPANDEX, at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts. The Chicago-based theatre company spent a week in […]
Family and farm By any measure, Santee farmer Walter Dantzler is a blessed man. After graduating from Clemson’s advanced ROTC program in June 1967, he helped his father bring in the harvest before heading off to Vietnam. Then he served a 13-month tour of duty before returning to the family farm. “I got home from […]
From one family to another When Ashley Snow visited Clemson as a prospective student from Connecticut, she attended a Zac Brown concert and the spring orange and white football game. She was sold. What sold her parents on Clemson was the community that embraced, nurtured and challenged her. “I was scared the school would be […]
When I transferred to Clemson in the fall of 2006, I was looking for a better “college experience.” The university I had left behind was low on school spirit; they didn’t even have a football team. Clemson did not provide me with an experience; it transformed my life. I found a new family in those […]
Clemson team recruits citizens scientists to answer the question. In the liturgy of a late spring night, the call and response of a tree frog chorus accompanied the fireflies’ ethereal light, as a guard let in a dozen people to the Cooper Library to launch a “flash” mob. It was the May 31 kickoff for […]