{"id":23577,"date":"2021-02-11T14:57:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=23577"},"modified":"2021-02-11T14:57:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:57:51","slug":"forever-and-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/forever-and-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Forever and Our Two Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cThe South Pacific was pretty rough, even for the Navy,\u201d M. Baxter Sowell Jr. \u201983 said. He took some time on a Friday morning in early February to reflect on his parents \u2014 their love story, which really began with his father\u2019s service in World War II.
\nIt was through the G.I. Bill that Morgan B. Sowell Sr. \u201951, a native of Orangeburg, South Carolina, was able enroll at Clemson University and major in agricultural education. He became the first person in his family to go to college.
\n\u201cI remember him saying how revered the war veterans were by the cadets on campus,\u201d Baxter said. \u201cIt was almost like when they walked down the hall, the other students would come to attention for them and turn their backs to the wall. Just kind of paid deference to what they had done because people his age, their senior trip was the South Pacific. It wasn\u2019t much of a senior cruise.\u201d
\nClemson was still an all-male, military college in the late \u201940s and \u201950s, and it was common for the cadets to pile on buses on the weekends and head over to Winthrop for dances and other social events with the college girls. It was one such dance where Morgan Sowell met his future wife, a business management student by the name of Jean DuBose.
\nThey fell in love.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents spent their honeymoon in the presidential suite of the Clemson House,\u201d Baxter said, a smile in his voice. \u201cI just thought that was a great love story.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both Jean and Morgan graduated from college in the spring of 1951. In June, they were married in Orangeburg and spent their wedding night driving back up to Clemson. Their honeymoon destination was the newly constructed Clemson House, the hotel on the hill that overlooked campus, lit up by its neon orange sign.
\n\u201cMy dad, being young and just back from the war and a recent graduate, wasn\u2019t wealthy by any standard,\u201d Baxter continued. \u201cSo, he ordered up a standard room from the guy behind the counter, who was also a war vet.\u201d
\nThe fellow veteran slipped the newlyweds the key to the presidential suite with a wink.
\n\u201cMy parents spent their honeymoon in the presidential suite of the Clemson House,\u201d Baxter said, a smile in his voice. \u201cI just thought that was a great love story.\u201d
\nThe Sowells returned to Orangeburg County, where Morgan spent the rest of his life as a farmer. Morgan and Jean had been married for more than 30 years when Morgan passed away in the late \u201980s. Jean passed away about 5 years ago.
\n\u201cMy mom never remarried because she had one love, and that was him.\u201d
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\nBaxter recently found some old pictures of his parents\u2019 wedding and their memorable honeymoon trip to Clemson House. He also stumbled upon some vintage valentines, where Morgan penned \u201chis little motto with my mom about loving her forever and \u2018our two days\u2019 because forever and a day wasn\u2019t long enough.”
\nThe card reads, \u201cLove always, forever and our two days. Your Husband.\u201d
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The love story of a Clemson graduate, a Winthrop graduate, Clemson House, a farm in Orangeburg and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":23580,"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":[4],"tags":[159,693,3175,3362],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-alumni","tag-clemson-house","tag-valentines-day","tag-winter-2021-features"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/JeanandMorganWeddingCake-June-1951.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23577","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=23577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23577"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}