{"id":23809,"date":"2021-06-04T11:13:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=23809"},"modified":"2021-06-04T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T15:13:13","slug":"preserving-her-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/preserving-her-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring Story: Preserving Her Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cWe lost my mom four years ago in July,\u201d Frances Mann Medley \u201910 says.
\nIn February 2020, the Mann family \u2014 including Frances and her family, her father, Stephen Mann \u201978, and her brother, Thomas Mann \u201906, M \u201907, and his family \u2014 donated a 2020 Clemson class ring in the ladies dinner ring style to honor their wife and mother, Eleanor Hightower Mann \u201978, who passed away in 2017. The donated ring also includes Eleanor\u2019s sorority, Pi Beta Phi, which recently returned to the University\u2019s Greek life.
\nStephen and Eleanor met and fell in love when they were both students at Clemson. He was an agricultural mechanization and business major, and she was an elementary education major. After graduating, the couple got married and \u201cput their roots down\u201d in West Columbia, where they raised Frances and Thomas. Eleanor taught elementary kids for 33 years in the area and eventually saw both of her children graduate from her alma mater.
\n\u201cWe have a picture from my graduation day with all four of us with our rings turned,\u201d Frances says. \u201cSweet memory.\u201d
\nWhen asked about the donation, Stephen says it was something that would \u201clast forever. [Clemson] was something that Eleanor was very involved with as a student and as an alumna. It is just a way to preserve her memory.\u201d
\nFrances says donating the ring was the first time her whole family had been back to Clemson since her mother\u2019s passing. It was a special trip. \u201cWhen we come back and visit for years to come, when I take my kids as they get older and hopefully my grandkids,\u201d she says, \u201cthey can visit the Alumni Center and find their grandmother\u2019s name.\u201d
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