Most of our events are in a hybrid format (in-person and on Zoom). If you would like the Zoom link to join an event virtually, please contact Victoria Musheff at vmushef@clemson.edu or 864-656-3990. Click HERE for easy instructions for joining a Zoom presentation.
Upcoming Presentations/Outings
October 3, 2025, (Friday), 10:00-11:30, Hybrid, Skip’s EC Trivia with Dr. Skip Eisiminger. Please mark your calendar, so you do not miss one of the best monthly events at Clemson. Eat Susan’s delightful homemade brownies (Dr. Wainscott’s wife!) while you compete alongside goodhearted, friendly folks while having fun with our host Dr. Skip Eisiminger! Do not miss the fun! Trivia has been defined as “things you either know immediately or not at all.” Skip’s trivia is like that. You can learn interesting stuff by participating on Zoom (no brownies that way!) or by joining in person. Some of the most interesting information is shared in conversation after each answer is revealed. EC folks are well-versed in countless topics. Skip occasionally features questions curated from presentations delivered at the Emeritus College. We continue to have the best conversations as a group of friends. Each session, participants contribute a small amount to benefit deserving college students.
October 3, 2025, (Friday), 11:30 am to 1:30 pm, 2025, FLU SHOT CLINIC at the Emeritus College. This is a collaboration between Clemson Rural Health and The Emeritus College. Please bring your state ID or driver’s license and your state insurance card.
October 9, 2025, (Thursday), 10:00 am – 11:30 am, Hybrid, Brain Health with Dr. Rosanne Pruitt
October 11, 2025, (Saturday), Creative Arts Day – 11:00 am – 2:00 pm, In Person. Hosted by the Creative Works Committee! You know their chosen vocation but what about their advocation! Join us for Creative Arts Day and see how your fellow emeriti spend their leisure time in pursuit of creative passions. Eight emeriti will demonstrate their craft in a “vendor fair” type atmosphere.
Location: In the Emeritus Suite (Regulatory Building)
Address: 511 Westinghouse Rd. Pendleton, SC 29670
Date: Saturday, October 11, 2025
Time: 11:00-2:00 pm
Artists will demonstrate their craft and will have some pieces available to purchase
Light Refreshments
October 15, 2025, Wednesday, 3:00 – 4:00 pm, Tour of the Brooks Center with Catherine Hughes. Contact Victoria at vmushef@clemson.edu for details.
October 17, 2025, (Friday), 9:30 am – 10:00 am, In Person, Harmonica for Health, with Vince Jackson. New folks are invited to join the fun. As we grow older many of us find we no longer have the lung capacity we once did. All is not lost. There are ways to increase lung capacity and restore breathing levels that may have diminished. Playing a wind instrument is one of those ways, and a harmonica is among the easier musical instruments to learn. In 2025 the Emeritus College will continue to provide instruction for those interested in music and improving their health. Join us for some good fun and fellowship. You do not need to read music or be musical. You will be surprised at how soon you can play a harmonica tune. Class meets at 9:30 am the 3rd Friday of each month in the EC Seminar room. Contact me for more information—vincejackson529@att.net.
October 17, 2025, (Friday), 10:00 am – 11:30 am, In Person, Coffee House Music Sessions, with Vince and Dave. Members of the Harmonica Class get the added benefit of staying over and participating (or becoming part of the audience) in the Coffee House Music Sessions beginning at 10 am, 3rd Friday of each month. The Sessions are open to ALL members of the Emeritus College, friends, family, and the public. Bring your portable musical instrument to the EC Seminar room for a jam session with talented musicians from the Emeritus College. WE play all types of music; blues, gospel, soft rock, country, and other genres, with all levels of talent represented. This is not an intimidating experience. It is a lot of fun! Coffee and snacks are provided. Hope to see you there.
October 21, 2025, (Tuesday), 2:00 – 3:00, Online, MMII Support Session with Vicki Gillis. The committee for the Moments and Memories II book project is hosting a monthly writing support session. Moments and Memories, Volume II writing sessions are designed to inspire your thinking about your time at Clemson, engender topics and episodes to write about, provide time to write, and solicit feedback from other Emeritus College participants. Our sessions will be held the third Tuesday of each month from 2 PM – 3PM, alternating between face-to-face sessions at the EC and virtual sessions on Zoom.
October 28, 2025, (Tuesday), 10:00 am -11:30 am, Zoom Only, Marty’s Memoirs with Marty Duckenfield. The Memoir group begins its fifth year of sharing the stories of our lives, stories for ourselves, our friends, and especially family members. We invite you to join us the 4th Tuesday of each month via Zoom. Members share written stories of their childhood years and college days, various adventures and everyday happenings, experiences in historic times, and while doing so, prompt others to their own recollections—some which end up being written stories, too. The group gives thoughtful feedback when asked.
October 30, 2025, (Thursday), 0:00 am – 11:30 am, Hybrid, Book Talk with Otis Pickett.
October 30, 2025, (Thursday), 0:00 am – 11:30 am, Hybrid, Book Talk—Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves: Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries and Race in South Carolina with Dr. Otis Pickett, University Historian. Presentation followed by book signing – book sold on site by Barnes and Noble. In Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves, Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr. examines Presbyterian missionaries’ attempts to live up to their understood calling from their God to serve as shepherds for their congregations. These missionaries, Pickett finds, faltered in this duty when faced with the racial hierarchy of an enslaved society. He focuses on individual missionaries, most prominently John Lafayette Girardeau and T. C. Stuart, who attempted to integrate enslaved, and later freed, men and women into the church. By examining these missionaries and mission churches, Pickett sheds new light not only on the complicated role that religion played in shaping slavery and Native American removal in the US South but also the fate of these ideas in the crucible of the Civil War and its aftermath.
PAST PRESENTATIONS: A FULL LIST OF HYBRID PROGRAMS AND ACTIVE LINKS MAY BE FOUND ON OUR PAST PROGRAMS PAGE
