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Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, takes a picture of his audience in the Clemson University Alumni Center before giving a speech at Clemson’s 10th annual Literary Festival, March 30, 2017. Nguyen won the puliter for his novel The Sympathizer. His other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Andrew Carnagie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The movie tells the story of a little girl who is “wild,” i.e., different, which the Cuban poster featuring an owl, a typical familiar for witches, translates into “witch.”
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University doctoral candidate A.D. Carson defends his dissertation in the Watt Family Innovation Center auditorium, Feb. 24, 2017. Carson, a candidate in Clemson’s Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) Ph.D. program, produced a 34-track rap album titled “Owning my Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes and Revolutions” as opposed to the traditional written dissertation. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Kathleen Swinney, wife of Clemson University’s head football coach Dabo Swinney, and players #13 Hunter Renfro, #40 Hall Morton, and #42 Christian Wilkins greet elementary school children from six Upstate South Carolina school districts during a celebration of the Tigers Read! initiative at the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, June 9, 2017. The initiative is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and has delivered customized Scholastic book packs to nearly 1,200 students across South Carolina that help prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
New U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Daniel Taylor’s mom and dad pin his rank onto his uniform during his commissioning ceremony, Dec. 20. 2017. Clemson University's Army and Air Force Reserve Officer's Training Corps units held a joint commissioning ceremony in the Tillman Hall auditorium. U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Stephen B. Owens, director of the joint staff, South Carolina National Guard, was the featured speaker. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The Memorial Transept
This memorial space boasts a 2,600 square foot marble floor, a sixty foot high wooden Gothic vault, two stained glass windows spanning 708 square feet each, black walnut paneling, stenciled walls and 28 white marble tablets bearing the names of 136 Harvard associates who fell on behalf of the Union cause during the Civil War. The youngest, Sumner Paine, class of 1865, fell at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, two years before his intended graduation. The Paul Joseph Revere listed is the grandson of the famous Paul Revere.
Three different stained-glass works have been installed in the north transept window. The original work designed for this window by Donald MacDonald was removed and replaced by Sarah Wyman Whitman’s Martin Brimmer Memorial Window in 1898. There are no records indicating the reason for the replacement nor the fate of the original north transept window. In 1902 or 1903, the Whitman window was transposed with MacDonald’s Virtues window which was originally installed in the south window. The transposition was made, presumably, to allow more light for the Brimmer Memorial Window.
Public viewing hours of the transept are dictated by the College’s academic calendar, the Sander’s Theater performance schedule and maintenance requirements. Typically, visitors may gain access to the transept on weekdays from 12:00 noon until 6:00 PM.
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This hall commemorates the patriotism of the graduates and students of this university who served in the Army and Navy of the United States during the war for the preservation of the union and upon these tablets are inscribed the names of those among them who died in that service.
Hayward Jean (left), principal of Mellichamp Elementary School in Lake City, S.C., chats with George Petersen, founding dean of Clemson University’s College of Education, March 5, 2018. Petersen was in Lake City with a group of professsors as part of a visit to South Carolina’s so-called ‘Corridor of Shame’ during a listen and learn field trip to the area, March 6, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University's Army and Air Force Reserve Officer's Training Corps units held a joint awards ceremony in the Tillman Hall auditorium, April 13, 2017. U.S. Army Brig. Gen. (ret) Chalmers R. "Hap" Carr Jr. was the featured speaker, and retired U.S. Air Force Col. Alton Whitley was inducted into the Clemson ROTC Hall of Fame. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
A UH-60 Black Hawk flies over the 64-member “Ben’s Brigade” as they accompany retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon, 99, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, as he walks in the Bataan Memorial Death March, March 19, 2017. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
U.S. Army Maj. Chris Bland, assistant professor of military studies at Clemson University, takes the Oath of Office during his promotion ceremony in Military Heritage Plaza, March 28, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The 2017 Solar Eclipse approaches totality over Clemson University’s Memorial Stadium, Aug. 21. 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Brand new U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Allison Spagnoletti receives applause after being commissioned, Dec. 20, 2017. Clemson University's Army and Air Force Reserve Officer's Training Corps units held a joint commissioning ceremony in the Tillman Hall auditorium. U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Stephen B. Owens, director of the joint staff, South Carolina National Guard, was the featured speaker. (Photo by Ken Scar)
A shovel and hard hat rest against the treads of a backhoe before the groundbreaking for the new College of Business building, Oct. 27, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Colonel Ben Skardon, 100, meets the Citadel Bulldog during the 2017 Military Appreciation Game in Memorial Stadium, Nov. 18, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The dean of Clemson University’s College of Business, Bobby McCormick, speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony for Clemson’s new College of Business building, Oct. 27, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University doctoral candidate A.D. Carson defends his dissertation in the Watt Family Innovation Center auditorium, Feb. 24, 2017. Carson, a candidate in Clemson’s Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) Ph.D. program, produced a 34-track rap album titled “Owning my Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes and Revolutions” as opposed to the traditional written dissertation. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The third annual Clemson University Wak for Veterans passes by Memorial Stadium, March 8, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Horace Priester, Brook Sill, and Wanda Johnson at the premier of “The Letters That Guided Us” in Clemson University’s Hendrix Center, Feb. 10, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Original Crystal Ball from the Wizard of Oz
1939, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
On loan from Jay ’77 and Eileen ’76, MBA ’78 Walker and The Walker Library of Human Imagination
The Oz crystal ball is a transparent hand-blown glass globe with an open neck at the bottom, similar to a dry lightbulb. It is not perfectly spherical but very slightly egg shaped. Experts have painstakingly authenticated the artifact by mapping slight imperfections (bubbles) in the glass, then matching them with images of the crystal ball as it appeared in the film.
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Alton Whitley speaks after being inducted into Clemson University's Reserve Officer's Training Corps hall of fame in the Tillman Hall auditorium, April 13, 2017. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
Clemson University alumnus Andrew Whitley and performing arts professor Kerrie Seymour film a video for Clemson’s website and social media pages at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, June 19, 2017. Seymour was Whitley’s theater professor and the two were both cast in a production of “Spring Awakening” at the Warehouse Theater in Greenville after Whitley graduated. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson Tigers play football with kids at Clemsonâs football complex, Dec. 18, 2017. The children were there as part of the âKicks, Cleats, and Kidsâ event sponsored by Dabo Swinneyâs All In Team Foundation, PAW Journey and Call Me MiSTER. Two-hundred children received Nike shoes and an experience designed to motivate and inspire them to better understand the link between strong personal character, commitment to academic success and positive life outcomes. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Participants in Clemson University’s Wak for Veterans begin their walk to Memorial Stadium, March 8, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Ever Gann, 8, views the 2017 Solar Eclipse from the Clemson University campus, Aug. 21. 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University senior Madison Williams, a graphic communications major, poses for a photo with her camera in Sirrine Hall, Feb. 6, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Horace Priester and Madison Williams chat at the premier of his movie “The Letters That Guided Us” in Clemson University’s Hendrix Center, Feb. 10, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)