A legend

Dec 27, 2022, 1:20 PM

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There is a true Clemson legend that perhaps we don’t talk
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Posted: Oct 30, 2017 9:02 PM
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About or honor enough. Long before I came down with the incurable Clemson Fever that I have had for almost sixty years there was a wonderful gentleman closely associated with the Tigers who few of you know a lot about and probably even fewer ever met. Times were so very different when I entered Clemson in the fall of 1962 that it is unbelievable for me to think that the university is where it is today when I compare it in my mind to those great times.
Yet, in other ways, it has changed very little. That “home/family” atmosphere that we hear so much today existed in the ‘ole days as well. A little different because the enrollment was probably 98% male
A lot of problems exist today that were never thought of in my early years at Clemson. One of the proudest things I can recall from those years just prior to the Vietnam war when unrest was very prominent on many campuses was the fact that a chapter of SDS failed at Clemson. I’m sure that our military heritage had a lot to do with that. Also during that time Harvey Grant enrolled at Clemson. I could write for hours about that event but the bottom line is ... no one cared!
We were all in this together and graduating was the number one priority. It was expected by everyone, the press in particular, that redneck Clemson would be another Alabama or Mississippi etc happening.. .. Not even close my friends. Clemson weathered all those storms. The Wars, the social unrest, integration...... and even co-.eds! I’m proud and I hope that you are.
We are still faced with protests regarding a lot of these early issues but things will work out for our Tigers.

As I thought about my early and wonderful years at Clemson I though of the man I mentioned in the beginning.
While a Clemson student I got to know an Afro-American gentleman who served and loved the Tigers as no other.
What a wonderful and understanding man he was and I am disappointed that he hasn’t been honored as much as he has. I fear the newer generation doesn’t know what an asset it was to have Herman McGee on our side during these years of growth and awakening.

I know there are tnetters out there who will say AMEN to my lengthy post. Please excuse

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A legend

Thanks, FORESTTIGER!

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Herman is in the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame...

Saw Herman up close 1959-66 but never really met him..

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