Charleston’s goodwill ambassador Two weeks after Helen Turner Hill became executive director of the Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB), Hurricane Hugo hit north of Charleston. How could anyone imagine a bigger challenge to a new position? Twenty-four years later, Hill has proven she was more than up for the challenge. Under her leadership, […]
A relationship with the land “Choose a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” For Jim Martin, Charleston Parks Conservancy program director and James Island farmer, no saying could be more apropos. “I’ve always known I wanted to garden. Even as a tiny child, my parents always let me have […]
ReSpace Orange is a defining color for most Clemson Tigers. Matthew Szymanski, however, also identifies with green. Szymanski, a design major, left Clemson with a desire to actively make a difference in his community. At DesignSpec, an architecture firm based out of Chapel Hill, Szymanski works on projects ranging from architecture to interior design, with […]
Passion for global health My friends say that going to Clemson was one of the best decisions of their lives. For me, attending Clemson wasn’t much of a decision; the education and scholarships offered by Clemson made it an unbeatable option. I couldn’t sit still when I found out I’d been accepted; I’ve had a […]
In 1913, the world was rushing toward its first Great War. But it was also a time of exploding creativity. The Woolworth Building in Manhattan, one of our earliest skyscrapers, had opened in April. The Armory Show had rocked the art world when it opened in New York in February, changing forever how we view art. A scientist named Albert Einstein was hot on the trail of his General Theory of Relativity that would explain how space and matter affect each other to create the universe in which we live.
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“A timeline is an easy way to capture the highlights of a period of time, in this case, the 14 years of Jim Barker’s presidency. It’s a harder thing to capture the essence of the time. And so as we celebrate the accomplishments of this period, we do so by remembering the Clemson World headlines of the […]
“I’ve been here so long I rocked on the porch with Thomas,” I’ve often quipped when asked about my tenure here at Clemson. In all honesty, I can’t lay claim to ever stepping on this hallowed ground before the summer of 1971, when my mother and I motored up from the Lowcountry to attend Orientation […]