{"id":20159,"date":"2018-01-09T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T19:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=20159"},"modified":"2018-01-09T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T19:16:55","slug":"ring-stories-a-clemson-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/ring-stories-a-clemson-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring Stories: A Clemson Family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the Lanhams, the Clemson ring runs in the family.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Lanham<\/a>\u201cConnection.\u201d That\u2019s what Janice Garrison Lanham \u201988, M \u201994 feels when she looks at her Clemson ring. Connection to her father, who never went to college but paid for her ring. Connection to other Clemson alumni, who have stopped her in line at the grocery store to show their own rings. Connection to her own Clemson family.<\/p>\n

As a first-generation college student, Lanham fulfilled her parents\u2019 dreams as well as her own when she graduated from Clemson with a bachelor\u2019s degree in nursing in 1988. After her master\u2019s degree, she started teaching nursing at Clemson, something she wouldn\u2019t trade for the world: \u201cI get to nurse in California and Utah and North Carolina and Georgia all in the same day because I\u2019ve educated nurses who have gone out to work in all of those states.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her husband, Drew Lanham \u201988, M \u201990, Ph.D. \u201997, whom she met while they were students, also teaches at the University, and the couple practically raised their children, Kimberly and Colby, on Clemson\u2019s campus. Both followed in their parents\u2019 footsteps.<\/p>\n

When Colby, the younger one, graduated, the Lanhams gathered outside of Bon Secours Arena after the ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe couldn\u2019t wait to get outside and take a picture,\u201d Lanham laughs, remembering her son\u2019s excitement. \u201cWe all laid our hands out and kind of welcomed him into the fold. It was really special.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Lanham<\/a>

Drew \u201988, M \u201990, Ph.D. \u201997, Janice ’88, M ’94, Kimberly ’12 and Colby ’16, M ’18 Lanham<\/p><\/div>\n

Do you have a ring story to share? Email shutto@clemson.edu <\/i>for more information. Visit alumni.clemson.edu\/ring <\/i><\/a>for more ring stories. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the Lanhams, the Clemson ring runs in the family. \u201cConnection.\u201d That\u2019s what Janice Garrison Lanham \u201988, M \u201994 feels when she looks at her Clemson ring. Connection to her father, who never went to college but paid for her ring. Connection to other Clemson alumni, who have stopped her in line at the grocery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[26],"tags":[706,1625,1639,2421,3339],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifelong-tigers","tag-clemson-ring","tag-j-drew-lanham","tag-janice-lanham","tag-ring-story","tag-winter-2019-lifelong-tigers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Clemson-rings.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20159"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}