Scroll of Honor – Harold McGill Renwick, Jr.
“A Poem for My Daughter” Written By: Kelly Durham [Author’s note: Several years ago, I was serving as a host at the Scroll of Honor Memorial before a Clemson football…
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Scroll of Honor – Henry Ayer Raysor II
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganChemist in Battle Written by: Kelly Durham After his 1935 graduation from Greenville High School, Henry Ayer Raysor II headed to Clemson College. Over the next four years, as Raysor…
Scroll of Honor – Robert Franklin Wright ’45
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganNight Fighter Written by: Kelly Durham We don’t know when he first saw her, but she must have been an impressive sight: standing tall and with shapely lines. He was…
WWII Hero’s Medals Given to Hospice Store
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganJust before Thanksgiving of this year an anonymous donor left a box of World War II era medals at the Hospice Store in Greenwood, SC. No one at the store…
Scroll of Honor – John Cuttino McKnight and Benjamin Green McKnight
/in Scroll of Honor/by Up&UpThe Beginning and the End Written by: Kelly Durham The 1940 Clemson College Swim Team—Mac McKnight is at the beginning of the diving board next to Coach P. B. Holtzendorff…
Scroll of Honor – Carl Long, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganWinter War Written by: Kelly Durham Carl Long, Jr. of Saluda attended Clemson College from 1936 to 1938, majoring in agronomy. Following his stint on campus, Long was employed by…
Scroll of Honor – Lee Hugh Welborn
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganArmy Ranger Written by: Kelly Durham America was already at war when Lee Hugh Welborn arrived on the Clemson College campus as a freshman in the late summer of 1942. …
Scroll of Honor – Henry Lee Suggs
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganOver Over There Written by Kelly Durham One hundred two years ago today, the Great War ended. As the clock ticked its way to 11 am on the 11th day…
Scroll of Honor – James Levi Smith, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganForgotten Front Written by: Kelly Durham The Italian Campaign in World War II is sometimes called the “Forgotten Front,” overshadowed by Operation Overlord, the June 1944 Allied invasion of France. …
Scroll of Honor – Ivey Connell
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowFrom Blue to Gold Written by: Kelly Durham Mrs. Broadus Connell must have felt both pride and anxiety. Four of her five sons were serving in the armed forces. That…
Scroll of Honor – William Raymond Yongue
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowNone Sacrificed More Written by: Kelly Durham They arrived at Clemson College when the world was mostly at peace. By the time they graduated, China and most of Europe were…
Scroll of Honor – William Raymond Yongue
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDow“Brown-Water” Soldier Written by: Kelly Durham The Vietnam War recalls images of soldiers and Marines trudging through thick jungles and wading through rice paddies. But, for a small number of…
Scroll of Honor – Oliver Jacob Rochester
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganFrom Teacher to Warrior Written by: Kelly Durham They were fighting over what in ordinary times would have appeared to be nothing more than a worthless sliver of mango-covered coral,…
Scroll of Honor – Lawrence Aldine Bearden
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganCut Short Written by: Kelly Durham The headlines in The Tiger campus newspaper in August 1941 included nothing about the war that had been raging in Europe for nearly two…
Scroll of Honor – Roy Sellars
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganCold War Heats Up Written by: Kelly Durham The start of the Korean War in June 1950 caught the United States by surprise. American forces were quickly pushed south, retreating…
Scroll of Honor – John Dendy McBrearty
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganOn His Way Written by: Kelly Durham John Dendy McBrearty was a young man on his way. After graduating from high school in Pelzer in 1931, he enrolled at Clemson…
Scroll of Honor – Alexander Fraser Henderson, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganDeadliest Season Written by: Kelly Durham Clemson’s Scroll of Honor, which lists alumni who died while on military duty, includes four hundred ninety-three names reaching back to 1918 and the…
Scroll of Honor – Thomas Albert McTeer
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganNon-Battle Death There were surely many ways to die in World War II. The National World War II Museum estimates that sixty million died world-wide during the conflict, a staggering…
Scroll of Honor – Benjamin Robert Briggs
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganStuck Throttle The F-100 Super Sabre was the United States’ Air Force’s first fighter aircraft capable of supersonic speed in level flight. Designed by North American Aviation, the F-100 served…
Scroll of Honor – John Walker Stalnaker
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganTarget Tokyo The night was filled with the roar of more than two thousand powerful Wright-Cyclone 2,200 horsepower engines as the bombers lined up along the miles of Tinian’s taxiways. …
Clemson Alumnus Heads New US Space Force
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganThe last time it happened was just two years after the end of World War II when President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 creating a separate…
Scroll of Honor – John Oscar Mauldin
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganNight Mission It seems odd to drive through campus without seeing students. The University’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic has left campus and downtown Clemson with only a tiny fraction…
Scroll of Honor – Guy Webb
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganBloodiest Battle In With the Old Breed, his classic memoir of combat in the Pacific Theater of World War II, Eugene Sledge described the feelings of “utter helplessness” when enduring…
Scroll of Honor – Walter Bennett and Marion Innis Jenkins
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganScroll Shared History They were born two months apart in late 1918, studied agriculture, marched across campus in the same parades, graduated as members of the Class of 1941, and…
Scroll of Honor – John McKenzie McIntosh
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganOne of the Most Promising Young Men John McKenzie McIntosh of Columbia was noted for his “ready wit and congenial nature” according to the 1914 edition of Taps. “Mc” McIntosh…
Scroll of Honor – William Duncan Workman
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganA Fine Pilot and a Fine Man written by: Kelly Durham Since the flight of Icarus, flying had always been seen as a dangerous endeavor. Many had been killed during…
Scroll of Honor – David Clifford Eaddy, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganThe Last Class Written by Kelly Durham His was the last class to enroll at Clemson College before the war began. Most of its members would be long gone before…
Scroll of Honor – Charles Lollis
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganVictim of Tet written by Kelly Durham By the fall of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson had become concerned by the declining levels of public support for his administration’s prosecution of…
Scroll of Honor – William Robins English
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganIn Japanese Captivity The treatment of prisoners of war during World War II varied greatly depending upon the combatants involved. For Americans, being captured by the Germans was preferable to…
Scroll of Honor – Herbert Gregg Easterling
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganJanuary Sacrifices It’s unlikely that Herbert Gregg Easterling would have graduated in 1944 even if he had stayed in school. Easterling, of Florence, arrived on campus as an English major…
Scroll of Honor – Bill Dillard
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganWinter War Written by: Kelly Durham When we think about winter combat in World War II, most of us recall the Battle of the Bulge and the heroic stand of…
Scroll of Honor – Robert Mixon
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganBall Turret Gunner It was the most isolated position on the crew. Sure, the tail gunner was stuck at the very back of the fuselage beneath the tail section, but…
Scroll of Honor – Richard Hughes Johnson
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganOne Day Short His classmates held him in high regard. His Taps profile stated: He is a hard worker and we bespeak for him great success. Richard Hughes Johnson was…
Scroll of Honor – John Coleman Carlisle
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganDeadly Foe Written by: Kelly Durham By the time John Coleman Carlisle of Newberry checked into the barracks, he probably knew already that his days on campus were numbered. Carlisle’s…
Scroll of Honor – Steele Roy Patterson
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganAfter the Battle Written by: Kelly Durham Steele Roy Patterson of Seneca was a busy cadet, engaged in a variety of pursuits. He was a cadet first lieutenant his senior…
Scroll of Honor – John Harold Lightsey ’40
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganA Speck in the Ocean Written by: Kelly Durham It’s just a speck on the map, a tiny dot of green contrasting with the blue expanse of the vast Pacific…
Scroll of Honor – John Adam Simpson
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganOn the Way Over There John Adam Simpson came to Clemson College in 1912 when both he and the school were still young. “Simp” had grown up in Chester County,…
Scroll of Honor – Rueben Lafayette Thomas, Jr. & Deckerd Jefferson Gray
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganCrew Mates Written by: Kelly Durham ’80 The first shots fired by the Germans against the English in World War II came at sea on September 3, 1939—and they came…
Scroll of Honor – Roy Donald Bratton
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganFighter Pilot For a kid born during World War II, it must have seemed like the ultimate goal: becoming a fighter pilot! The fighter aces of that war had been…
Scroll of Honor – James Crayton Herring, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganAthlete, Scholar, Man of Letters “At first we weren’t even sure there would a ‘Taps’ this year, what with a war going on and everybody’s yelling about film and copper…