{"id":20236,"date":"2019-01-03T14:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T19:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=20236"},"modified":"2019-01-03T14:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T19:15:56","slug":"go-dbold-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/go-dbold-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unlikely Beginning for a Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 21px;line-height: 1.4em;text-align: center\">Marilyn Godbold\u2019s life-changing gift began in an unlikely place \u2014 a meeting she attended as a guest.<\/span><br \/>\nGodbold\u2019s affinity for Clemson began with her husband, Asa Godbold, who graduated from Clemson in 1969 with a degree in building construction. Asa Godbold was named to the Board of Visitors, and since spouses are routinely invited to the meetings, Marilyn attended every meeting with him. Though she had no prior connection to Clemson, she quickly fell in love with the University.<br \/>\n\u201cMarilyn had never even set foot on campus until after we met,\u201d Asa said. \u201cShe bought into everything Clemson and almost made me feel guilty over whether I was as involved as she was.\u201d<br \/>\nAt the final Board of Visitors meeting of Asa Godbold\u2019s term, Marilyn sat in on a presentation about ClemsonLIFE and its goal of providing a postsecondary education to students with intellectual disabilities. On the way home, Marilyn immediately decided to change her will to make ClemsonLIFE a part of it.<br \/>\n\u201cClemsonLIFE resonated with everything she was as a person, and she wanted to make this program available to anyone who needed it,\u201d said Asa.<br \/>\nMarilyn died in late 2017; her planned gift to ClemsonLIFE will provide grants and financial aid.<br \/>\nHis wife\u2019s generosity inspired Asa to continue giving himself by creating the Asa and Marilyn Godbold Clemson FIRST Grant-in-Aid, a scholarship for first-generation students.<br \/>\n\u201cI have now given to Clemson for 49 consecutive years, and in one fell swoop, Marilyn gave more than I have ever given cumulatively,\u201d he said. \u201cI am hoping that between the two of us, we will keep Thomas Green Clemson\u2019s will and vision alive forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Godbold\u2019s life-changing gift began in an unlikely place \u2014 a meeting she attended as a guest. Godbold\u2019s affinity for Clemson began with her husband, Asa Godbold, who graduated from Clemson in 1969 with a degree in building construction. Asa Godbold was named to the Board of Visitors, and since spouses are routinely invited to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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":[24,8],"tags":[3333],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clemson-forever","category-my-clemson","tag-winter-2019-clemson-forever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20236","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20236"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}