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Kenneth Scar
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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 […]
Research project preserves veterans’ stories
/ in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Kenneth ScarExpect to be impressed when you meet a Marine, but when that Marine is a 95-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor who challenges you to a pull-up contest, prepare to be blown away. This is one of many things Will Hines of Spartanburg has learned in conducting the Veterans Project, an ongoing undergraduate research project to collect […]
The Clemson Red Arrows
/ in Features / 0 Comments / by: Kenneth ScarFighting Tigers
/ in Features / 0 Comments / by: Kenneth ScarClass of ’65 celebrates Clemson ties, generosity
/ in Lifelong Tigers / 0 Comments / by: Kenneth ScarFifty years after they walked the stage to receive their diplomas, nearly 100 alumni from the Class of 1965 presented the school a check for $1,227,872 to help future students do the same. The group gathered near the Class of 1965 sidewalk — a shady path that cuts under the lush oak trees of Fort Hill […]