Melvin K. and Dollie Younts<\/a>, passionate Clemson fans and philanthropists\u00a0from Fountain Inn, pledged the sixth Cornerstone Gift to athletics. The recently\u00a0renovated 600-seat South Club area at Memorial Stadium has been named\u00a0the Melvin and Dollie Younts South Club in appreciation of their $2.5 million\u00a0commitment, announced in August.
\n\u201cMelvin and Dollie have been tremendous supporters of various institutions\u00a0and initiatives throughout the Upstate,\u201d said President Clements. \u201cWe\u2019re\u00a0thankful for their support of our athletics programs and the impact their gift\u00a0will have on student-athletes and Clemson fans for generations to come.\u201d
\nThe Clemson Athletic Cornerstone Program is a vital part of the new\u00a0athletics facilities initiative. With new facilities, upgrades and rebuilds planned\u00a0for or underway at football, basketball, baseball, tennis, soccer and academic\u00a0support, it is the most comprehensive change to the facilities of athletics ever\u00a0undertaken at Clemson.
\nMelvin Younts, a retired attorney with the firm of Younts, Alford, Brown and\u00a0Goodson, is trustee and chief executive officer of Palmetto Real Estate Trust.\u00a0The Yountses are noted philanthropists in the Upstate, having contributed\u00a0significantly to various community organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melvin K. and Dollie Younts, passionate Clemson fans and philanthropists\u00a0from Fountain Inn, pledged the sixth Cornerstone Gift to athletics. The recently\u00a0renovated 600-seat South Club area at Memorial Stadium has been named\u00a0the Melvin and Dollie Younts South Club in appreciation of their $2.5 million\u00a0commitment, announced in August. \u201cMelvin and Dollie have been tremendous supporters of various […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":16563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[683,829,1611,3306,3314],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-16562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clemson-forever","tag-clemson-forever","tag-cornerstone-gift","tag-iptay","tag-winter-2017","tag-winter-2017-lifelong-tigers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/Younts-116.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16562"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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