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Women And Clemson University: Excellence—Yesterday And Today, Jerome V. Reel
Women And Clemson University: Excellence—Yesterday And Today, Jerome V. Reel
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According to Clemson University Chief Public Affairs Officer Cathy Sams, "It's time to tell the story of women at Clemson, maybe way past time. After all, you could say that Clemson owes its origin to a woman. The estate that Thomas Green Clemson bequeathed to South Carolina to found a college came into his possession through his wife, Anna Calhoun." However, after "the Board of Trustees decided in 1954 to make Clemson a civilian, coeducational college,…women did not arrive in large numbers until that 'sea change' took place—more than 60 years after the school opened its doors. Current President James …
Growing Up Cartoonist In The Baby-Boom South: A Memoir And Cartoon Retrospective, Kate Salley Palmer
Growing Up Cartoonist In The Baby-Boom South: A Memoir And Cartoon Retrospective, Kate Salley Palmer
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Kate Salley Palmer was an inadvertent trailblazer. In the early 1970s, she was a freelance artist living in Clemson, South Carolina. Then the nationally televised Watergate hearings took hold of her, and she found herself drawing cartoon after cartoon about the scandal, whose latest developments she followed as religiously as other people follow soap operas. She started selling a few of the cartoons she couldn't stop drawing to whatever local newspapers would buy them. In 1975, The Greenville News hired her part-time. She was, it turned out, that paper's first-ever political cartoonist. By the next year, the News was running …