Alumni Profile: Elizabeth Steadman ’68
Libby Steadman began her career as a Clemson nursing student and ended it as an Army colonel, a trailblazer in her own right.
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Kenneth Scar
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Honoring the Best
/ in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Kenneth Scar and John GouchClemson faculty have recognized associate professor of industrial engineering Mary Beth Kurz as one of the very best among them by awarding her the Class of ’39 Award for Excellence.
The Clemson Medallion
/ in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Kenneth Scar and John GouchTHE CLEMSON MEDALLION is presented to individuals who have rendered notable and significant service and support to the University and who exemplify the dedication and foresight of founder Thomas Green Clemson.
Clemson students explore mitigating impact of baby boomer leaving the workforce
/ in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Kenneth ScarWhat happens to a company if it abruptly loses a significant percentage of its most experienced employees? This is the conundrum companies across the U.S. are facing as baby boomers — the 76 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 — approach the end of their working lives.
The Fights of His Life
/ in Features / 0 Comments / by: Kenneth ScarTyrone Gayle ’10 has never shied away from a challenge — whether in the classroom, on the track, at the cancer treatment center or in the thick of our last knock-down, drag-out presidential campaign.
Military career begins, ends on same stage: Jimmy Mullinax ’94
/ in Alumni Profiles / 0 Comments / by: Kenneth ScarAn extraordinary U.S. Army career came to an end this spring as Lt. Col. Jimmy Mullinax, commander of Clemson University’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, retired on the same stage where he was commissioned 21 years earlier. Army officers do not get to choose their assignments, so getting orders to come back to Clemson was a highly unusual but serendipitous twist in Mullinax’s career. “How do you get to […]
Miller gift establishes endowed chair in medical physics
/ in Clemson Forever, My Clemson / 0 Comments / by: Kenneth ScarCardiologist Waenard L. Miller ’69 has spent his career on the cutting edge of medicine, raising the level of care for patients higher and higher. Now the gift that he and his wife, Sheila, of Frisco, Texas, have given will ensure that future Clemson graduates can do the same. The two have donated $2 million […]
Ginn family honors legacy of father, grandfather
/ in Clemson Forever, My Clemson / 0 Comments / by: Kenneth ScarA family with three generations of Clemson alumni has given $1 million to establish the Wilbur N. Ginn Sr. Class of 1911 Unrestricted Endowment in Electrical Engineering; the Captain Wilbur N. Ginn Jr., Class of 1941 Unrestricted Endowment in Mechanical Engineering; the Wilbur N. Ginn III, Class of 1969, Unrestricted Endowment for the […]
Clemson dedicates Memorial Stadium flagpole to Skardon
/ in Lifelong Tigers / 0 Comments / by: CW Staff and Kenneth ScarOn Military Appreciation Day, Col. Ben Skardon, a dapper 98-year-old World War II veteran, sat amid a crowd of news media and admirers at the foot of the Memorial Stadium flagpole, which was being permanently dedicated to him. After graduating in 1938, Skardon was commissioned into the Army, going on to become the commander of Company […]