Many of you guys

Jan 6, 2023, 9:14 PM

Associate Clemson only with their football program. A great number of you really have never experienced the true Clemson University.

Back in 1934 Clemson hired a gentleman to assist the trainer in getting the Tiger athletes ready to play. Life in our country was very, very different in those times. Most of you never experienced those unbelievable years. Clemson, a school from the old south, hired a black man to assist with a very important role .... athletic training. To me that was the beginning of Clemsons rise to the top. Keep in mind that this was seven years before I was born! Mr McGee was a big presence on the campus when I was a student at Clemson A & M and I had the extreme pleasure of knowing this true icon in Tiger history.

It’s easy for all of us to become upset when things don’t go exactly as we think it should. I wonder where ole Clemson would be if the early fans had protested the hiring of Herman McGee. Clemson has had great leadership for a very long time and it continues with the present administration .... athletic and otherwise.

This is why I encourage you all to put your faith into the leaders of Clemson University. They will rarely let you down.

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when I was a student at Clemson A & M

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Growing up in Clemson in the late 50's we use to hang around

Herman as he was known to everyone was

a legend at Clemson. If he couldn't fix it you were really hurting. My senior year I had a case of plantar fasciitis which was basically unknown/recognized then. He developed a wrap for me that helped, but I still had to run through the pain. The thing was though I knew if Herman couldn't fix it, there was nothing else to do. Fred Hoover became a legend as trainer, but us old timers went to Herman.

We were also there when Harvey Grant integrated Clemson, and saw Dr. Edwards and other Clemson Leadership made sure Clemson was the poster child for "Integration with Dignity." That was the title of a Saturday Evening Post article about it. Yes, there were a few students yelling racial epitaphs, but they were a very small minority.

Yes the leadership at Clemson has seldom let us down, but they are human and make mistakes occasionally.

Re: Herman as he was known to everyone was

Had the great fortune to know Herman McGee during

Many of you guys

when I was a student at Clemson A & M

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Growing up in Clemson in the late 50's we use to hang around

Herman as he was known to everyone was

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Had the great fortune to know Herman McGee during

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