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Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 1, 2023, 10:13 AM
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Random question but what year did you graduate from Clemson? Also, what’s your favorite memory from your time as a student at Clemson?
I graduated last year, and I am feeling nostalgic today (I know it’s only been a year but still).
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This seems like a trap***
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Nov 1, 2023, 10:17 AM
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Re: This seems like a trap***
Nov 1, 2023, 10:20 AM
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No trap here. Some may call me boring but I enjoy hearing other people’s stories from their years at Clemson.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 1, 2023, 10:26 AM
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I left the Roanoke Colony in 1586 to attend Clemson. Graduated in 1589 with a degree in Dirt & Ditching (Think they call it Civil Engineering now).
Never could find "home" again.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 10:51 AM
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Cool! I’m from Croatoan Island myself.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 1, 2023, 11:43 AM
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Im in the French travel party under le Salle heading down the Mississippi River right now myself
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 10:27 AM
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Class of 87. Favorite memory having Michael Dean Perry as a classmate. So much fun to be around.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 10:04 PM
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I had a class with Michael Dean Perry too. Chill dude from what I remember. Also partied one night with Chester McGlockton. He was one bad mother xxxxxx.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 2, 2023, 7:35 AM
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1974 (BA) and 1976 (MA) College of Architecture. Favorite memories were the all-nighters in the studio in Lee Hall...
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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True story…I worked in Fike during Summer school in the “equipment group”. Which means I gave out and retrieved jock straps, towels, tshirts, shorts, etc from anyone who Checked them out. The Perry brothers loved to high dive. I had to wash their sweaty jocks many times, but they were great guys…
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93 Bachelors 99 Masters. The bowl games
Nov 1, 2023, 10:30 AM
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were among my best memories
Fun and games in Bowman field
Bullwinkles
The Zoo
TD’s
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BS, 1972. Best memory? Blind date with a COED who became my wife of 50+ yrs.***
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Re: BS, 1972. Best memory? Blind date with a COED who became my wife of 50+ yrs.***
Nov 1, 2023, 9:36 PM
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I have the exact same dates and memories. Wow
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 10:35 AM
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1966. Going to basketball games in the old gym. It was a cracker box. Would have put Cameronto shame.
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Class of 1990
Nov 1, 2023, 10:35 AM
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Favorite memory is meeting my wife there.
Second favorite is a tie between seeing the 45-0 beatdown in Columbia in person followed a little more than a month later by traveling to Jacksonville to see what we didn’t know would be Coach Ford’s last game (Gator Bowl vs WVU).
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1977 - when I walked across the stage in Littlejohn and......
Nov 1, 2023, 10:35 AM
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Dr. Edwards handed me my diploma - was thrilled to finally get it!
Seriously, the whole Clemson experience and the feeling that Clemson became my home. It still feels that way today whenever I return to Clemson.
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Re: 1977 - when I walked across the stage in Littlejohn and......
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Nov 1, 2023, 10:43 AM
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I couldn’t say it better myself. When I was in high school and always heard people saying this, I thought no way it can truly feel like home.
They weren’t lying one bit. The memories, people, and moments I’ve experienced at Clemson has been one of the best things in my life. Truly blessed and thankful for what Clemson has done for me.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 1, 2023, 10:41 AM
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1984 BSN. 1981 national championship win over Nebraska! Go Tigers!
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1985 (BS) and again in 1988 (MBA)...
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Nov 1, 2023, 10:44 AM
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Too many memories to count but three that standout for me:
Winning the 1981 football National Championship my Freshman year.
Playing for and winning the national championship in men's soccer in 1984.
Winning the national championship in men's soccer again in 1987. I was a grad assistant that year instead of a player.
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Re: 1985 (BS) and again in 1988 (MBA)...
Nov 1, 2023, 11:10 AM
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I was stationed in Ft Lewis WA when y’all came to play the natty so I drove up from Tacoma and got to see you win that championship! Long way from home and I think there may have been 2000 people in the Kingdome that day. Good memories.
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A couple of things I rememeber about that trip and that game
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Nov 1, 2023, 4:08 PM
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Beating UCLA and Indiana to win the National Championship was HUGE and avenged two losses to them earlier in the season.
In fact, we opened the 84 season with a big win over the No. 2 ranked team in the nation, the UConn Huskies. Maybe that win went to our heads a little bit because we went 4-3 over the next 7 games with losses to UCLA, Indiana and Duke. I can remember Coach Ibrahim chewing our a$$es out after the Duke loss. He also made some changes to the lineup. We would go 17-1 over the next 18 games. That loss would be to UVa late in the season. We avenged that loss in the quarter finals of the NCAA tournament.
We beat the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 seeds in the tournament to win the championship. which was the first time in tournament history that a team had beaten the top four teams to win the championship.
The other thing that I oddly remember, playing in the Kingdome was one of the few times we played on astroturf all season, so the indoor shoes I wore were still pretty new and had not been broken in very well yet, and they hurt my feet.
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'94, '96, 2006. And two rally cats at the same time.***
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Re: '94, '96, 2006. And two rally cats at the same time.***
Nov 1, 2023, 11:04 AM
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 1, 2023, 10:48 AM
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2010 here, ‘07 Labor Day FSU game, spot on the hill first row, so I was unwillingly one of the idiots to rush the field 3 times at the end of the game but got to look down the scope so to speak at the James Davis jersey pull.
‘08 snow day was pretty fun too, raiding Harcomb for lunch trays then sliding down into Lot 5 all liquored up
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 1, 2023, 10:53 AM
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hard to believe that i would fit on a lunch tray once upon a time lol
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 11:16 AM
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Snow days in Clemson are great. They are pretty rare nowadays but really fun when they do happen from time to time.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 11:30 AM
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In the early 80s we got trays from Clemson House and slid down the big hill into Hwy 93. Fun times.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 10:52 AM
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'85
i dont know about a favorite memory, but i watched william perry grab a rebound, beat everyone down the floor for a slam dunk in fike
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 1, 2023, 11:31 AM
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I was probably there. That’s one of my best memories. Playing bball in Fike with the football players.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 11:40 AM
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perry filled up both doors on those double doors
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 1, 2023, 11:42 AM
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I saw him dunk 2 handed no running start, catch the ball, jump straight up and dunk it again over and over. He was a monster.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Also remember running into him in the lane once. I was going full speed and he was just standing there. He caught me as I bounced off and said something like, “you ok, little man?”
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 11:45 AM
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i was somewhere in johnstone, the doors flew open and there was this monster with a big grin coming at me lol
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 10:58 AM
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Class of 77! Favorite memories are the great concerts at Littlejohn; Doobie Brothers, 3 Dog Night, Chicago, Gladys Knight, Diana Ross, Four Tops, etc. The list goes on and on. Greatest music era in history. I'm glad I got to live it! Go Tigers!
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 1, 2023, 10:21 PM
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Rolling Stones Death Valley
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1993
Nov 1, 2023, 11:01 AM
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Favorite: Traveling with friends to FSU to see the game
Least Favorite: Being at the FSU game that year ( 0-57 )
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Re: 1993
Nov 1, 2023, 4:13 PM
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My road trip down to FSU 1989 was a highlight during my tenure.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 11:13 AM
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1982
Natty
Bengal Bawl on Y beach
Chicken Shack parties
Awful Waffle
Chanellos
(I did go to class once in awhile too)
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 1, 2023, 11:22 AM
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1972. Can't tell you about the best memory because she is happily married to some dude and a grandma now.
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2000...
Nov 1, 2023, 11:23 AM
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Issaqueena d@m rope swing
January 2000 snow storm
Nick's and Backstreets
1999 UVA game on my birthday (drank a case of beer before the game)
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Re: 2000...
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Nov 1, 2023, 11:58 AM
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I have some great memories at Backstreets also.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 1, 2023, 11:37 AM
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Class of 1979.
Best Sports memories: 1. Was being in Columbia when Butler made the catch to beat the Coots.
2. Watching Tree battle against Lefty and the Maryland Terps.
3. The Notre Dame game with Joe Montana even though we lost the direction of football had turned.
Others: going to the Buffett concert in Tillman, the midnight pep rally's at the amphitheater, playing softball in the spring and summer, cute girls everywhere.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 11:52 AM
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May 72.... Long story but it took me 5 years.
Hard to say but Dec. 1 1969 comes to mind. Spent the evening at Red Carpet beer hall downtown with drinking buddies while monitoring the Western Union teletype in the window next door until my draft lottery # came over the ticker tape. It was a late night (#304). Jackpot
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1984
Nov 1, 2023, 11:40 AM
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Too many memories.
Football games - especially the 81 season
BBall at Fike. Had the opportunity to play with many of the football players of that time.
The Bookstore and Pennie Annie’s - probably some things I don’t remember from those too
Bengal Ball - same as above
The time someone threw a mannequin off the roof of Manning during finals week while we were all waiting for midnight breakfast at Schilletter to start.
Dairy Products Judging Team trip to national finals in New Orleans - oh boy!
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88 and my fav memory was taking my 7 y/o son to the pottery lab and...
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Nov 1, 2023, 11:41 AM
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showing him how to throw a pot. Actually, I don't remember much about him using the wheel.
The lifelong memory came after I showed him how to clean the wheel off. Everyone brought a bath towel to the pottery lab to clean their hands, tools and the equipment including the wheel.
I showed Josh how to put a wet towel in the center of the wheel then push down on the power pedal and slowly move the towel toward the edge of the wheel.
Evidently I was standing up when I showed him and perhaps that's why he did it standing up. The problem he had was he hit the gas when he pushed on the pedal and the flying wheel grabbed the towel and slapped him several times across the butt before I could stop it.
I think he was so stunned by the accident that he couldn't function and was standing there screaming his lungs out over the whipping he was taking. Four or five other students came into the room and Lit Josh was standing their crying. They looked at me like you'd look at any child abuser and I was laughing too hard to explain.
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Nov 1, 2023, 11:51 AM
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My favorite time was the whole 1981 football season. There were a lot of happy fans in Tigertown that year. Expectations were not high, so every win was appreciated and enjoyed.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 12:09 PM
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Graduated in 1970 - Greatest memory was being in the old Fike Fieldhouse the night we beat #1` ranked Duke in basketball with their all-american guard Steve Vasendac! With 4,500 packed house fans present it was the wildest night I ever experienced at Clemson!!!!
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'86 - I have no memory of my college years unfortunately***
Nov 1, 2023, 12:16 PM
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 12:29 PM
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85 with BA
09 with Ph.D.
Fav memory was the relief after defending dissertation.
Well... that and friends made as undergrad
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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92’. Some of my fav memories: comparing topo maps in the library to gas station roadmaps to find hills to plan cycling routes, friday and saturday nights downtown at TD’s, TTT, Slugs, Crazy Zacks(seeing Hootie for free), playing Frisbee on the front lawn in front of Tilman….
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 1:08 PM
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'82
Shawn Weatherly
Haircuts at Clemson House
Winning every game in Littlejohn in 79-80
Fridge breaking rim in Fike
Spending night in Littlejohn for Orange Bowl tickets and being too poor to go
Elementary Ed class as elective and only guy in the class
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 1:22 PM
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Shawn dated a guy that was on D-3 with us her freshman and a bit into her sophomore year. She was around all the time. I think she was from Sumter if I'm not mistaken, I know he was.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 1:19 PM
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'80. "The Catch" game at the Roach. Had great seats on the 50 in those real seats they had. Watched all the coots around us leave at the half and then they started magically appearing again in the 3rd and 4th quarter and started their same old crap. So much fun watching Fuller complete that pass to Butler and the reactions of all of those losers. That was the first year we painted the paws from Tigertown to Cooterville. The fun we had on D-3 too.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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December ‘93. Civil Engineering. Favorite memory is just being on campus. A place I had grown up knowing I would attend. Enjoyed almost all of it. Johnstone, bowman, Lowry. Can still smell it (some good some bad).
By far the biggest thrill now is having a daughter who just graduated ‘21 in Civil and another who will be ‘25 in Architecture. What a blessing for my kids to go there. Never thought about it much but it’s a proud thing.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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It is a very proud thing. My daughter graduated in 2017 and was the Tiger Cub mascot for the 2014-2016 football seasons. Her last football game in the suit was the national championship game in Tampa. So much fun watching her be involved in some of the best times in Clemson football history.
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Class of 90 (nothing you couldn't find in my profile)
Nov 1, 2023, 1:37 PM
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Hard to single out a single favorite memory; after all, I met my wife at Clemson, so how could I answer anything else?
If I had to go with a non-romantic memory, probably going to Tallahassee in 1989. Will never forget that trip. But there were many others. In fact my son, who graduated a couple of years ago, really struggled at first, because all he had heard his whole life from both parents was how awesome Clemson was, and how our time there was the best four years of our lives. When it didn't happen immediately, he thought we had BSed him all that time. NOW he gets it.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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‘88 BS and ‘95 MBA One of best memories was camping out for Georgia tickets in ‘86 then having Treadwell beat the Dawgs with a last second field goal in Athens. Also, Bowman field in the spring
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 10:09 PM
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1992- best memory playing on a softball team with a bunch of the starting defense from the Tigers football team….
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 10:15 PM
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One of my best memories were the quad parties after home football games in the mid 80s. Thousands of students packed in the quad. Music pumping from every frat house. Kegs flowing, etc., etc. 
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 10:17 PM
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BSEE in 88 and MSEE in 90
TTT
Johnstone
Lifelong friends I made
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 10:23 PM
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83 BS
Meeting my future husband at The Bookstore (now TTT)
Being in South Bend when we beat ND
1981 National Championship
Beating #1Duke at Littlejohn and driving the fire Marshall crazy (about 3,000 over capacity)
Sliding down Isaquuena
Snowboarding on trays from Harcombe
I could go on!!
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 1, 2023, 10:25 PM
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Food fights in Harcombe
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Studying and hanging at the Library was 1 of many favs.
Nov 1, 2023, 11:35 PM
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Alumni giving office called me this evening asking for my annual pledge. I was polite and told them I wouldn't be making a decision until the end of the year. My decision has nothing to do with any sports team or coach, but it does have everything about Clemson becoming a woke southern college. When the news broke about the tampon dispensers in the library men's bathrooms, I was appalled. Silly young students can have their opinions and signs, but the university does not have to become a supporter of the insanity. My decision is, I will not be giving to Clemson for the foreseeable future.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 2, 2023, 7:37 AM
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1974 (BA) and 1976 (MA) College of Architecture. Favorite memories were the all-nighters in the studio in Lee Hall...
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 2, 2023, 7:41 AM
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Class of ‘94. Too many good memories and life long friends made to narrow down. Being from California I didn’t know as much about Clemson going in as many, but I quickly knew I had made the right choice. Daughter is a freshman now and in Tiger Band. Sharing a bond like that with her is pretty cool.
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Nov 2, 2023, 7:57 AM
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Top two memories would be riding the bus and running down the hill with the team before last home game, or having sex with my ex-girlfriend in the end East end zone the night I graduated.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 2, 2023, 8:07 AM
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BS in Civil in 92. Too many to narrow down....
Playing basketball with Michael Dean Perry on a 9' rim at Issaqueena Trail Apts. Yep, he dunked on me several times, but I got one too!
Parties at Y Beach.
Sonny's 123 Truck Stop after TTT closed.
Parties at the Quad, although they started clamping down on those around 89-90.
Seeing some incredible basketball in Littlejohn (mostly mid/late 80s).
The huge blow up dolls at the Rolling Stones concert in Death Valley.
Chanelos and Pizza Pub (when we had a few extra bucks).
Food fight during exams at Harcombe.
Occasional lunch at Schilletter (on the other side of campus) to see the girls.
Graduation, because.....a lot of people would get their diploma, then leave. That left a lot of empty seats on the floor. In 92, there were not a lot of civil engineering jobs so I had a job at a fish camp (restaurant) after graduation. I received my diploma then went back to my seat, beside another guy that didn't have a job yet. As we sat there, I asked him "Should we leave too", and he said "He$$ no, I earned this and am going to sit here until it's over". Which we did.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 2, 2023, 8:57 AM
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Dec 2001 and Aug 2003. I loved the summers around clemson when most of the students were gone just hanging out with good friends working toward common goals. Loved the baseball games, midnight cookies, working with 3ct. So many more, Wonderful years.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 2, 2023, 9:00 AM
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Class of 1981.
Ice skating on the reflection pond in front of the Cooper Library in January of 1977. Cold as a witch's t_t that week.
Secondly, following the Tiger Paws painted from Greenville to Cooterville on US Hwy 276 (then) and I-26 to Billy Brice in the fall of 1977.
Lasty, the season that sent us to the natty in Miami in 1981
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 2, 2023, 9:12 AM
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1988 here.
Too many great memories so here’s a painful/ humorous one
Pretty sure it was 10/31/87…it was a Saturday, noon football game. It was also the day that they held the Enigneering in training exam nationwide. It’s an 8 hour exam full of everything you ever learned in a science class that wasn’t biological in nature.
They held it in Riggs hall. We started at 8 am, break for lunch at 11, just in time for all the folks going to the game to stream past us poor nerds on their way to the stadium.
It was a beautiful day, so they opened the windows in Riggs hall. All afternoon, we could hear the cheers from the stadium, as we suffered through the 2000 questions on that exam.
Finished the exam at 4 ish. Wandered down to TTT with a buddy to bury our suffering of the past 8 hrs.
4 weeks later I got the letter that said I passed the test!
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
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Nov 2, 2023, 9:14 AM
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My favorite times were at Summer classes. I like that time of year due to the fact tbat everyone hungout together. People that were in frats and soroities and people who were not all hungout together. Athletes hungout more with students too. It was great. Everyone hungout together. I enjoyed that.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 2, 2023, 5:01 PM
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I concur, summer school was great.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 2, 2023, 10:04 PM
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Great call. I was going to say this, Summer in Clemson, for all the reasons you mentioned. As great as Clemson is on every day of the year, summers are next level.
Whenever I meet a Clemson grad who never did a summer there it feels like they missed out on one of the all time great Clemson experiences.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 2, 2023, 5:08 PM
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1986 and I was on the 5 year plan so I was a freshman in 1981. That football season, cool fall nights downtown and Bowman field during homecoming week. I still recall those days a lot.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 2, 2023, 10:13 PM
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C/o 2018 here. To be honest, my favorite memory was walking across the stage at Littlejohn at graduation because there were times I thought for sure I’d never make it.
Other than that, its gotta be the Louisville game in 16 - got up at 3 am with my roommates to get to Bowman for College Gameday and laid my head back down at 2 the following morning.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 2, 2023, 10:51 PM
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I’m right there with you on that one! Walking across the stage was a great feeling and also a sense of relief.
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Re: Question for all Clemson alumni
Nov 3, 2023, 6:57 AM
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Dec 1973 graduate. 3 HC, 5 loosing seasons, 2-3 vs the Coots but loving every football game. Playing Bama in '69, beating the Coots in 1971 after loosing 3 in a row and beating them again in '72! Mac's Drive In, Red Carpet (The night Cindy danced topless!), March snow storm of '72.
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