Jon Harp

Articles by Jon Harp

Betsy Byars Duffey ’75 and Laurie Byars Myers ’73

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Writing Sisters: It’s a Family Affair These Clemson sisters have blazed a trail in the publishing world. Together they have published more than 35 children’s novels and won numerous awards, including the S.C. Children’s Choice Award. Their names are known and loved by children all over the state of S.C., across the country and even around […]

Thomas R. Waldron (’61 CE)

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I Flew With Heroes is the author’s eyewitness account as a gunship pilot of the joint U.S. Army/U.S. Air Force raid on Son Tay POW camp, Nov. 21, 1970. The book can be found at Amazon, Kindle and Clemson’s Cooper Library.

Cadence Count

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The Will to Lead campaign, by the numbers In 2012, Clemson surpassed the $600 million goal of the Will to Lead campaign. In an act of optimism and confidence, the campaign leadership and Board of Trustees decided to dream big and raise the challenge to a new goal of $1 billion. Here are a few […]

Power Ahead

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Clemson is now home to one of the world’s largest and most capable electrical grid simulators. Thanks to the work of Clemson graduate and eGRID creator Curtiss Fox, one day, renewable energy sources like wind, solar and more will do even more to make things go. When the lights flicker, we barely notice. Our homes […]

Elizabeth  C. Hutchison ’08

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Writer for a lifestyle — Southern To Elizabeth Hutchison, There’s certainly no place like the South. It’s a special place with a rich culture and colorful characters. As an assistant editor with the popular lifestyle magazine, Garden & Gun, Hutchison — or Hutch, as she likes to be called — is responsible for helping give […]

Revolution in Ukraine

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When fellow Clemson alumnus Tom Kapp and I agreed to meet in Kiev on Thursday, February 20, we had no idea that the events of the coming days would consume the entire country and possibly the region at large. Two days prior, police snipers had begun targeting protestors in downtown Kiev. Some 90 people were […]

My first semester

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My first semester as Clemson’s new president was busy, challenging and so much fun! Like all freshmen, I met thousands of new people and quickly learned my way around campus. My family and I even lived in the Clemson House for the semester. We enjoyed several snow days this winter and loved playing basketball outside […]

Donnie A. Dinch ’08

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Passion for music inspires technology Donnie Dinch is forecast to take the billion-dollar music industry mobile. He’s listed in Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” and as one of the magazine’s “Hottest Startups of 2013.” And who’s to argue with Forbes? Dinch is the packaging science-graduate-package designer-turned-CEO of WillCall. After graduating in 2008 with a degree […]