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Clemson University doctoral candidate A.D. Carson waits to defend 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)
Clemson University civil engineering doctoral student Bill Ashman poses with a huge pneumatic cannon used to hurl shrapnel (Photo by Ken Scar)
Robert Hall and John Wilson, who work for Garfield Signs and Graphics, prepare the first “toe” of a new Clemson Tiger paw that they were installing onto Memorial Stadium over the entrance that players use to run down “The Hill” before every home game. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Volunteers with the Clemson University Student Veterans Association deliver care packages at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. This was the second year the CSVA delivered packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Three children at James M. Brown Elementary School in Walhalla, S.C., wait to unwrap their presents during an event organized by student-led nonprofit Clemson Hope, Dec. 8, 2017. Clemson Hope collected more than 1,100 gifts over the course of two months to give to local school children in Title 1 elementary schools. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University student Nicole Blank, a sophomore from Atlanta studying early childhood education, shares in the joy as a class of children at James M. Brown Elementary School in Walhalla, S.C. open gifts presented to them by the student-led nonprofit Clemson Hope, Dec. 8, 2017. Clemson Hope collected and wrapped more than 1,100 gifts over the course of two months to give to local school children in Title 1 elementary schools. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Families, students, faculty, staff and administrators came together to celebrate the college, student achievement, and larger community.
Clemson University football legend Fred Cone, 91, stands at Howard’s Rock in Memorial Stadium Aug. 11, 2017. His name can be seen in on Memorial Stadium in the top left of this photo. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Brennan Beck, military and veteran engagement assistant director for Clemson University, pushes a cart full of care packages with Freda McKnight, a CNA and activities assistant in the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. Beck was with a group of student veterans, military family members, and staff members from Clemson who delivered the packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The four members of Clemson University doctoral candidate A.D. Carson’s doctoral committee pose for a photo before 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)
Clemson University professor Dr. Chenjarai Kumanyika asks doctoral candidate A.D. Carson a question (in the form of a rap) during Carson’s dissertation defense 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 as opposed to the traditional written dissertation. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Christopher Wright takes the oath of office 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)
Families, students, faculty, staff and administrators came together to celebrate the college, student achievement, and larger community.
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.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon, 99, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, prepares to cross the eight-and-a-half mile finish line fo the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, March 19, 2017. Skardon is the only survivor of the real Bataan Death March to walk in the memorial march. This was the 10th time he has walked this far in the march. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
Haley Gann and her son Revel, 4, view the 2017 Solar Eclipse on the Clemson University campus, Aug. 21. 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
South Carolina Upstate elementary school children watch a presentation featuring the Clemson Tiger and Clifford the Big Red Dog 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)
Bill Ashman (left), a doctoral student in civil engineering, explains the Clemson University wind tunnel at the Wind and Structural Engineering Research building to Clemson media strategist Clinton Colmenares. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Six new Army and Air Force second lieutenants (three of each) embrace and sing the Army and Air Force songs after being commissioned in a ceremony at Clemson University, Dec. 20, 2017. Clemson'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)
Richie Parker walks between his 1963 Chevy Impala and his 1955 Chevy Nomad in one of his garages in Charlotte, N.C., August 3, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)(Photo by Ken Scar)
Donna Burdette and Ben Skardon at the Clemson University Class of 2018 project reveal. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University student Maria Sarmiento, of Miami, Fl., a senior studying biochemistry, reacts while getting serenaded and handed a rose by Clemson’s all-male a cappella ensemble TigeRoar while she was trying to have lunch in the Hendrix Student Center, Feb. 10, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Three Clemson University drum majors pose for a photo with country music star Lee Greenwood during the 2017 Military Appreciation Game in Memorial Stadium, Nov. 18, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Robert Gunter stands for 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)
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Allison Spagnoletti’s parents pin her rank onto her shoulder during her 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)
Richie Parker leans on his red 1964 Chevy Impala at his home in Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 3, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Families, students, faculty, staff and administrators came together to celebrate the college, student achievement, and larger community.
Three Clemson University drum majors pose for a photo with country music star Lee Greenwood during the 2017 Military Appreciation Game in Memorial Stadium, Nov. 18, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Horace Priester and Madison Williams at the premier of his film “The Letters That Guided Us” in Clemson University’s Hendrix Center, Feb. 10, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Robert Hall (in tiger mask) and John Wilson, who work for Garfield Signs and Graphics, pose after installing a new Clemson Tiger paw onto Memorial Stadium. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University student Alfonso Richard, a sophomore studying education and mister in the Call Me MISTER program, takes a question from a fourth-grader from Legacy Early College Charter School, March 29, 2018. The kids were being hosted by Clemson’s College Preparation and Outreach office in collaboration with Emerging Scholars, Tiger Alliance, and Call Me MISTER as part of a long-term initiative to get elementary school children excited about the prospect of going to college. (Photo by Ken Scar)
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)