Jon Harp

Articles by Jon Harp

Pam Buffington Redmon ’85

“It’s Personal” When it comes to Pam Buffington Redmon’s passion to control tobacco, it’s personal. Two weeks before her 1985 graduation from Clemson’s School of Nursing, Redmon received a call that no daughter wants to receive. Her father, a longtime smoker, was being rushed to the hospital and would need open heart surgery. He survived, […]

Helen Legare Floyd ’81

Keeping the family farm Helen Legare-Floyd has a farm. Not just any farm, but a 288-year-old family farm on John’s Island. She, along with her brother and sister, are ninth-generation descendants of 18th-century planter Solomon Legare, and together they work to make it profitable. To be able to hold on to a family farm in […]

An agricultural revolutionary

Interred in a shady plot along the periphery of Woodland Cemetery — a short punt from Death Valley and a pebble’s throw from Clemson family names like Sikes, Poole and R.C. Edwards — lie the earthly remains of one of the most influential Americans whose name you may have never heard.

William D. Carson (’63 HORT)

The Emancipation Procrastination is the story of an African-American family who migrated from Summerton to Philadelphia to escape their primitive living conditions and almost non-existent educational opportunities. The book is published by Thomas Nelson and is available at Amazon.com.

*John A. Blackburn (’69 ARCH)

John Blackburn’s book Healthy Stables by Design introduces the concepts of aerodynamic ventilation, strategic natural light and passive solar heating and cooling into horse barn designs ranging from exquisite to functional. Information may be found at http://www.healthystablesbydesign.com.