Scroll of Honor – Robert Eugene Adams, Jr.
Kamikaze Over Japan Written by: Kelly Durham Robert Eugene Adams, Jr. of Atlanta began his collegiate career at North Georgia College in Dahlonega, which like Clemson, was a military school. …
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Scroll of Honor – Heyward Hunter Fellers
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowInto Germany Written by: Kelly Durham The graduation day forecast for Clemson was for mild weather with a high only in the mid-seventies, just right for the planned ceremony in…
Scroll of Honor – Boyd Preston Lawhon, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowIcing Written by: Kelly Durham Boyd Preston Lawhon, Jr. wasted no time. He enlisted in the Army Air Force just six days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor yanked…
Scroll of Honor – Richard Worrell Kapp, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDow‘This Was a Man’ Written by: Kelly Durham Richard Worrell Kapp, Jr., “Dickie” to his friends, was impressing people long before he arrived on the Clemson College campus. Kapp was…
Scroll of Honor – Cloudy Gray Conner, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowThe Purple Heart Battalion Written by: Kelly Durham Following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, General Delos Emmons, the military governor of the Hawaii Territory, supported placing Japanese-Americans in internment camps…
Scroll of Honor – John Calhoun Hubbard, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowTakeoff Written by: Kelly Durham The missions flown by the heavy bombers of the 8th Air Force were fraught with dangers. Mechanical failures and equipment malfunctions were always a hazard…
Scroll of Honor – Guy Benjamin Taylor
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowNavy Doctor Written by: Kelly Durham Guy Benjamin Taylor of Lexington entered Clemson in 1912. Upon completion of his junior year in the spring of 1915, Taylor enrolled at the…
Scroll of Honor – Francis Marion Zeigler
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowNamesake Written by: Kelly Durham Like his namesake, the legendary Swamp Fox of Revolutionary War fame, Francis Marion Zeigler of Denmark seemed destined for renown as a warrior. As a…
Scroll of Honor – Richards Daniel Van Allen
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowTake the High Ground Written by: Kelly Durham Richards Daniel Van Allen reported for active duty with the United States Army in March 1942. He attended basic training at Camp…
Scroll of Honor – Robert Earle Agnew
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowStorm Clouds Written by: Kelly Durham When Robert Earle Agnew arrived on the Clemson campus in 1937, the storm clouds of war were gathering. In China tensions with Japan erupted…
Scroll of Honor – Henry Alexander Coleman
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowThe Global Pandemic Written by: Kelly Durham From early 1918 to mid-1920, the Spanish Flu epidemic raged across the world, infecting 500 million people and causing an estimated 50 million…
Scroll of Honor – John Hetrick
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowFrom Civic Leader to Service Member Written by: Kelly Durham John Paterson Hetrick made his way to the Foothills of South Carolina from his hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to study…
Scroll of Honor – Lester Miller
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowTrained for War Written by: Kelly Durham Lester Laneau “Pete” Miller was born in the Dillon County community of Hamer. He attended public schools in Dillon and entered Clemson in…
Scroll of Honor – Henry Hahn
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowTank Commander Written by: Kelly Durham In September 1944, Allied forces in France were attacking across a broad front, slowly pushing stubborn German defenders back across France toward the Rhine…
Scroll of Honor – Pugh Rogers
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowOccupation Relocation Written by: Kelly Durham The war was over and it seemed as though much of the world was migrating. Civilians chased from their former homes by authoritarian regimes…
Scroll of Honor – Kevin N. Earnest
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowPresidential Mission Written by: Kelly Durham Shortly before a scheduled mission to the western United States, Air Force Captain Kevin N. Earnest and his wife Carol dropped by Summerville to…
Scroll of Honor – William Daniel Rowland
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowTinian Written by: Kelly Durham The fifteen islands of the Mariana archipelago include Guam, Saipan, and Tinian. They lie in the North Pacific Ocean 1,500 miles south-southeast of Japan, 3,700…
Scroll of Honor – William Edward Worthy
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowEn Route Written by: Kelly Durham Major Bill Worthy’s orders carried him to Bangkok, Thailand en route to his new duty station, the Royal Thai Air Force Base at Takhli. …
Scroll of Honor – Edwin William Goddard
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDow“One of Our Finest” Written by: Kelly Durham The war in Europe had been over for nearly a month, but the war in the Pacific appeared to be as vicious…
Scroll of Honor – David Aiken Crawford, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDow“Defining Moment” Written by: Kelly Durham David Aiken Crawford, Jr. was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. David A. Crawford, Sr. of Winnsboro. In 1941, he graduated from Mount…
Scroll of Honor – Samuel Vincent Taylor
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowDive Bomber Written by: Kelly Durham Dive bombers, like those flown during World War II in the Pacific Theater by Navy and Marine Corps pilots, were considered more accurate than…
Scroll of Honor – William Hunter Carson
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowThe Critical Moment Written by: Kelly Durham William Hunter Carson of Orangeburg was a member of the Class of 1942, the first cohort to graduate from Clemson College after America’s…
Scroll of Honor – Jesse Franklin Gibson
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDow“One of Our Best Boys” Written by: Kelly Durham Jesse Franklin Gibson came to Clemson in 1936 from the crossroads community of Centenary. An engineering major, Gibson joined the Swamp…
Scroll of Honor – Thomas Archie Scott
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowLeader Among Leaders Written by: Kelly Durham Thomas Archie Scott was a flyer even before he entered the military. At Clemson, Scott was a member of the Flying Cadets, learning…
Scroll of Honor – Thomas Edward Davis, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowInside the Reich Written by: Kelly Durham By the spring of 1945, the Germans, pinched from both the east and the west, were facing certain defeat. Even with their homeland…
Scroll of Honor – Charles Edward Coleman
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowFirst Night Written by: Kelly Durham At the end of the 1942-43 academic year, David Lawrence Alexander, Jr. and the rest of his Class of 1944 bade farewell to the…
Scroll of Honor – Charles Edward Coleman
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowRammabschuss Written by: Kelly Durham Charles Edward Coleman and Willi Maximowitz never formally met, but their encounter in the unfriendly skies over wartime Germany would have tragic results. Coleman would…
Scroll of Honor – Benjamin Franklin Robertson, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDow“…Never Was a Night so Black…” Written by: Kelly Durham He is little known today, but at his death in early 1943, Benjamin Franklin Robertson, Jr. was arguably Clemson’s most…
Scroll of Honor – McFaddin Moise
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowClemson to Annapolis Written by: Kelly Durham McFaddin Moise of Sumter began his collegiate career at Clemson College enrolling in the late summer of 1940. He was a member of…
Scroll of Honor – Henry Milton Laye, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowRainbow Warrior Written by: Kelly Durham Like the other members of his Class of 1944, Henry Milton Laye, Jr., a mechanical engineering major from Seneca, had his collegiate career interrupted…
2023 Tigers on Tour
/in Uncategorized/by Megan McDowAbout ‘TIGERS ON TOUR’: From New York City to California and places in-between, we are taking the #TigersOnTour this year to tell you about what is going on at Clemson…
Scroll of Honor – Malcolm Brodie Edens
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowConflict and Confusion Written by: Kelly Durham We know precious little about Malcolm Brodie Edens, a member of Clemson’s Class of 1947. The 1939 Taps lists him as a member…
Scroll of Honor – Archibald Carlisle Dudley
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowPatton’s Reply Written by: Kelly Durham It had seemed as if the Germans were on their last legs, as if they might be defeated and the war in Europe ended…
Scroll of Honor – Albert Powhatan King, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowEpinal Written by: Kelly Durham On a plateau 100 feet above the Moselle River near the village of Dinozé in northeastern France, rows of white markers stand vigilant witness to…
Scroll of Honor – Earl Pinckney Furman, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowLone Ranger Written by: Kelly Durham They called themselves the “Long Rangers” because of the vast distances so many of their missions covered. Flying over the trackless Pacific Ocean, the…
Scroll of Honor – Rudolf Anderson, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDow“The Martyr Who Died for Us All” Written by: Kelly Durham Of the nearly five hundred names listed on Clemson University’s Scroll of Honor, none has been more widely reported…
Scroll of Honor – Frank DuBose
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowThe Longest Battle Written by: Kelly Durham In the autumn of 1944, after its rapid sweep across France, the American Army reached the German frontier. Confronted with the well-prepared and…
Scroll of Honor – Stephen Randolph Hilton
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowMissed Rendezvous Written by: Kelly Durham On Wednesday morning, October 3, 1945, Rebecca Lane Horton and her sister-in-law Jennie Horton departed Clemson for the long drive to Fayetteville, North Carolina. …
Scroll of Honor – Stephen Randolph Hilton
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowThe Deadlier Opponent Written by: Kelly Durham Claude Rothell, Jr. came to Clemson College from Saluda County as a member of the Class of 1943. His class was the last…
Scroll of Honor – Stephen Randolph Hilton
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowAttack on Pagan Written by: Kelly Durham In 1937, the Imperial Japanese Navy established a garrison at the recently constructed airfield on Pagan Island, one of the volcanic islands in…