{"id":23442,"date":"2021-02-08T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=23442"},"modified":"2021-02-08T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:08:56","slug":"honorary-alumna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/honorary-alumna\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorary Alumna: Pamela Maddex Hendrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hendrix-family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23443 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hendrix-family.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/Hendrix-family.jpg 800w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/Hendrix-family-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/Hendrix-family-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/Hendrix-family-705x471.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPamela Maddex Hendrix of Kiawah Island, S.C., was posthumously named honorary alumna by the Alumni Association. Hendrix graduated from Winthrop University in 1965 and married Leon \u201cBill\u201d J. Hendrix \u201963, M \u201968*<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>in 1967. Through their marriage, Pam developed a deep love for Clemson and later saw her four children graduate from the University: Jill Ganzenm\u00fcller \u201992, Joy Yonce \u201993*, Holly Cirrito \u201995* and Jim Hendrix III \u201998.<br \/>\nTogether, Pam and Bill have provided financial support for the Hendrix Student Center, the Hendrix Family Endowment for the Office for the Student Body President, the Class of 1963 Bridge to Clemson University Endowment, the President\u2019s Leadership Circle and the Emerging Scholars Program. They were Founding Partners for the James F. Barker and Marcia Barker Scholarship Endowment and distinguished members of the Trustee Oak Society.<br \/>\nIn honor of Pam\u2019s passion for travel, her children surprised her and developed the Pamela Maddex Hendrix Dream Jar Travel Endowment, which provides meaningful travel experiences for Clemson students. After her passing, the family became an Academic Cornerstone Partner with a gift of\u00a0$2.5 million to create the Pamela Maddex Hendrix Dream Jar Education Abroad Endowment.<br \/>\nThe honorary alumna designation was presented to Bill and the entire Hendrix family at Bill\u2019s home in Clemson by Wil Brasington \u201900,\u00a0executive director of the Alumni Association, and Gregg Morton \u201978, president of the Alumni Association Board of Directors.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pamela Maddex Hendrix of Kiawah Island, S.C., was posthumously named honorary alumna by the Alumni Association. Hendrix graduated from Winthrop University in 1965 and married Leon \u201cBill\u201d J. Hendrix \u201963, M \u201968*\u00a0 in 1967. Through their marriage, Pam developed a deep love for Clemson and later saw her four children graduate from the University: Jill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":23443,"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":[26,8],"tags":[369,1480,1481,1520,2186,3367],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifelong-tigers","category-my-clemson","tag-bill-hendrix","tag-hendrix-family","tag-hendrix-family-gift","tag-honorary-alumna","tag-pamela-hendrix","tag-winter-2021-lifelong-tigers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/Hendrix-family.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23442","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=23442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23442"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}