The LOST Boys: Another Example of Clemson's Truly Exceptional People!!

May 20, 2025, 11:07 AM

Three Clemson alums spent a year travelling the country helping people in need!

There are so many reasons to love Clemson! We certainly do not need any additional reasons to be proud Clemson and/or its people!! That said, I recently discovered this story of the Lost Boys!

“We would not have done this if we had not gone to Clemson,” says Linscott.”

The LOST Boys: Traveling trio of Clemson alumni spends year doing good deeds across the US
https://news.clemson.edu/the-lost-boys-traveling-trio-of-clemson-alumni-spends-year-doing-good-deeds-across-the-us/

““We’ve traveled about 25,000 miles to this point,” says Linscott. “And we’re a 501(c) nonprofit totally funded by people we’ve met along the way who believe in us.”

The three friends bought the bus in January 2022 and spent nine months gutting and rebuilding it from the inside out on Compton’s family property near Charleston. When they finished, they had 280 mobile square feet of work and living space they could bring anywhere in the U.S. where there was need. They hit the road in October 2022 and haven’t looked back.

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The work hasn’t been glamorous. They’ve offered their skills and time for free to any person or community in need and have wound up digging mud out of houses after floods in California and Vermont, working at a refugee center in Tijuana, building a radio station for the Navajo Nation reservation in New Mexico, and repairing roofs in Florida after Hurricane Ian, to name a few projects.

“Meeting so many different, amazing people in different places has been the biggest reward,” says Haddad. “We’ve worked with a lot of different local nonprofits impacting their neighborhood, and most of those start with someone just loving the people around them —loving their neighbors, and from that, a nonprofit will come because it’s more efficient.”