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Travelers Winter 2018

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Zack Geiger ’13 and Andy Burns ’15 took a three-day tour through the Sahara Desert near Merzouga, Morocco. The pair rode camels into the desert, snapping a picture on the sands with their Tiger Rag on the way to a nomadic campsite. “It was an exhilarating trip made all the more exciting by angry, spitting camels and our guide quitting on day two after a dispute with the driver. It truly was the trip of a lifetime,” Burns says.

William Stevens '67 and granddaughter Lucy Stevens ‘18 pose with the rest of their family at the Eiffel Tower, celebrating William’s 50th wedding anniversary with wife Linda. Clinton Smith ’03 (far right) snapped a photo with Sam Kariuki and Cathy Inabnit in Kisumu, Kenya. Greg ’84 and Carol ’87 Smith in Spain on the Camino de Santiago, the pilgrimage path to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Toni Seals, Mike Seals ’85, Anne Weldon Zarbock ’88 and Jeff Gallaher ’78 brought their Clemson orange to the Upper Falls of the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park. Whitney Sanders ’01 and company showing her Tiger pride in Switzerland. Barbara Mishoe Robertson ’74, M ’75 kept her balance visiting the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Pisa, Italy. Michael Rerko ’17 and Ryan Auger ’17 in front of a glittering Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. Rees Porcari ’11 packed his Tiger Rag on a mission trip to Brie, France. Robert Parker ’81 and his wife Carol Wheeler in Iceland in July, 2017. James Owens ’65 and his wife Kay visited the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Neal O’Sullivan ’17 explored the Prambanan Temple in Indonesia during his travels of Southeast Asia following graduation. Sandy Erskine Morgan ’74 and Kathy Davis ’75 brought their Tiger Rag on their vacation to the Netherlands in April 2017. Ensign Daniel Minnick stood with his parents, Mike Minnick ’81, Ph.D. ’84 and Anne Minnick ’83, aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz in Bremerton, Washington, shortly before its current deployment to the Persian Gulf. Bob McGill ’90 took his Tiger Rag scuba diving in the Peacock Springs cave system in Live Oak, Florida. Steve Matonak ’83 in front of the Hungarian Parliament Building in Budapest, Hungary. Dennis ’12 and Emily Griffin ’14 Kiff celebrated their honeymoon in Phuket, Thailand, in January, 2017. Van HA ’09 and Ashley Champion ’94 Jones visited the Grand Canyon with their family. Amanda Hrubesh ’13, Collin Clemons ’16 and Will Middlebrooks ’14 at Moraine Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Amanda and Collin met at Clemson and plan to wed in May 2018 with Will as a groomsman in the ceremony. Peter Horn ’86 and Tammy Horn brought their Clemson flag to the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska. Megan Hoffman ’13, Tate Fennell ’11 and Lauren McDonald ’15 in front of the giant Ferris wheel known as Cosmo Clock 21 in Yokohama, Japan. Floyd Harris ’78 traveled throughout Vietnam visiting children’s schools and orphanages in preparation for teaching English as a second language. He shared his Tiger pride with local university students in front of the Saigon Central Post Office in Ho Chi Minh City. Hayden Grooms ’16, Natty Long ’17, Nate Adams ’16, Eric Schelble ’16 and Andrew Caitlin ’15 visited Churchill Downs before enjoying a Clemson football win at Louisville. Jason Flanders ’01, former Clemson football player, traveled to Arizona for the Fiesta Bowl with his wife Christen and Tiger cubs Madison and Robby. The family ventured up Camelback Mountain on the trip. Gary Faulkenberry ’65 and wife Toni enjoyed the canals of Venice, Italy, with their grandson Aiden. Jack Fallaw ’64, Ashley Dunnavant ’88, Deana Pilger ’91, Paul Dunnavant IV ’16 and C. Preston Dunnavant ’19 traveled to St. Andrews, Scotland, and piled three generations of Clemson Tigers onto the famous Swilcan Bridge. Phil Ellis ’71 and wife Ann near the Cliffs of Kilkee in County Clare, Ireland. John Ellis ’65 and his wife Margaret visited the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin before the 27th Anniversary of the German reunification. Charles Elfert ’67 and his wife Gail in front of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg, Russia. Robert Duvall '84 and wife Phyllis summited Rendezvous Mountain in Grand Teton National Park. Jeff Dunlap ’78 and his wife Beth in front of the Belfry of Bruges, Belgium. Galen DeHay ’97, M ’99, Melissa Cooper and Daniel Cooper ’84, honorary Ph.D. ’07 on the floor of the Grand Canyon. Kathy ’75 and Maynard ’70 Davis wave their Tiger Rag over the Columbia Glacier on Prince William Sound in Alaska. Nathan Creel ’19 stands with his Clemson pennant over Machu Picchu in Peru. Karen Burns ’78 shows some Tiger spirit at Drum Castle in Scotland with her husband Randy. Computer engineering professor R.R. Brooks shares his Tiger spirit in Conakry, the capitol city of the Republic of Guinea in Africa. Pressley ’13 and Meagan Best ’13 of Irmo wave their Tiger Rag while on their honeymoon in Saint Lucia. Ron Arias ’87 with his wife Liz and son Ron Jr. visited the other Death Valley in California. Zabriskie Point and Manly Beacon can be seen to the right of the family. Hannah Creech ’15 braved the cold on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Robert Bussmann ’16, Michael Dolan ’15 and Matt Koch ’15, all 2nd lieutenants, snapped a picture at Ft. Rucker, Ala., just before Dolan’s graduation from the U.S. Army’s flight school where he learned to fly the CH-47F Chinook, a heavy-lift cargo helicopter. Bussman is currently training on the UH-72 Lakota, a utility helicopter, and will complete his advanced training in the Chinook. Koch graduated flight school in October where he learned to fly the AH-64D Apache, an attack helicopter. Randy Ward, parking services, and Joyce Ward at Dead Horse Point in Moab, Utah. Jennifer Saylors ’98 at Letná Parks in Prague, Czech Republic. Andrew Sayer ’12 packed his Tiger Rag when he traveled to Alaska and explored Glacier Bay as well as the nearby areas of Skagway and Haines. Alton McLellan ’93 and Sam McLellan share their love of Clemson with a new friend in Gibraltar. Ray Massey ’92, Dave Christensen, Chad Blackston ’04 and Tom Wyatt posed on the iconic Swilcan Bridge with their Clemson golf gear at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. Megan Lunn ’06, after landing at Lukla, one of the world’s most dangerous airports, hiked eight days to Mount Everest’s Base Camp, an elevation of 17,600 feet, waving her Tiger Rag to celebrate her accomplishment. Stewart Hurst ’82 and his wife Michelle at the UNESCO Heritage site in the Dolomite Mountains of Italy. Julianna Ellis ’14, Patrick Welsh ’80, M ’82 and Virginia Ellis ’17 at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. Rebecca Cook ’19 and her father John Cook Jr. ’71 visited Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. Carl Brown ’83, Grace Ann Brown ’88, Jim Brown ’15, Mary Hunter Brown ’17, West Brown and Clayton Stoddard ’17 wave their Tiger Rag under the waves while scuba diving in Great Guana Cay in Abaco, Bahamas. Chris Berry ’17 summited Mt Fuji in Japan during his summer internship for his master’s degree in engineering at Clemson.