Category: Life After Retirement

Dr. Dee Stegelin, Professor Emerita of Teaching and Learning, retired in 2017.

Published Writing Details: Published a White Paper for the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) at Clemson University entitled:  Strategies for Supporting Immigrant Students and Families:  Guidelines for School Personnel

Teaching/Advising Details: Mentoring faculty leaders to implement a collaborative study abroad in Reggio Emilia, Italy for students from Clemson, USC, and the College of Charleston, May 12-June 1, 2018

Exhibition Details: Presentation to the NDPC Conference, Palm Springs, CA, October 22, 2017: The Critical Role of Engagement in Dropout Prevention: Panel Presentation and Discussion with NDPC Research Fellows

Presentation to the NDPC Conference, Palm Springs, CA October 24, 2017: Engaging Parents and Families in Public School Preschool Programs:  Building a Foundation for Family Engagement

Presentation to the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Education Annual Conference, November 15, 2017:  Perceptions and Dispositions of 4K Parents about Parent Engagement in the Schools of South Carolina

Volunteer Details: Serve on the Research Committee for the Institute for Child Success (ICS), a child advocacy organization with state and national outreach
Serve as Chair of Research Fellows for the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) at Clemson University; Serve on the Advisory Board for the US Play Coalition and Conference, Clemson University

Dr. Rob Roy McGregor, Professor Emeritus of Languages, retired in 1994. A graduate of Erskine College and Columbia Theological Seminary, he was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1958 by Second Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Dr. McGregor taught English, French, German, and Latin at Boys High School and Hanna High School in Anderson before earning the MA degree in French from the University of South Carolina and the PhD in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia. He is Professor Emeritus of French and Latin at Clemson University, with publications on Jehan Froissart, Albert Camus, Voltaire, Charles Baudelaire, and Jean Genet.

In retirement, he was a volunteer chaplain for Hospice of the Upstate for 20 years and taught Latin at Erskine Theological Seminary as an adjunct professor. He has translated and had published five volumes of sermons of the sixteenth-century French Reformed theologian John Calvin (Banner of Truth, Edinburgh) and is currently translating the third and final volume of Calvin’s sermons on Job. He has also  translated and had published, with Dr. Donald Fairbairn of Gordon-Conwell Seminary, the Latin correspondence of the sixth century North African bishop Fulgentius of Ruspe (Fulgentius and the Scythian Monks: Correspondence on Christology and Grace, Catholic University of America Press).

Since September 2017, he, following the passing of his wife, Kathryn (CU MA 1965), has been living in Harrisburg, NC, comfortably and conveniently situated near his son, Rob Roy III, in Charlotte, where he is being a very useful North Carolinian by contributing mightily to the economy!

Dr. Catherine Paul, Professor Emeritus of English, retired in 2015.

Book Details: I have written an article about Ezra Pound’s “Canto 1” for the forthcoming book “Readings in the Cantos,” edited by Richard Parker. I have also prepared the (rather complicated) index for Anderson Araujo’s “A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur.”

Exhibition Details: My textile art piece, “Hysteria 2: Deserters from the Army of the Upright” was exhibited in the fall of 2017 in the Member Show at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts

Dr. Elizabeth Carney, Professor Emerita in History, retired in 2017. She has sent a collection of articles, Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty, co-edited with her colleague Caroline Dunn, to Palgrave as well as a monograph, Eurydice and the Rise of Macedon, to Oxford University Press.

Published Writings:  “Argead Marriage Alliances,” In The History of the Argeads, New Perspectives, Sabine Müller, Tim Howe and Robert Rollinger (eds.), Harrassowitz,  Wiesbaden, Germany, 2017, 139-150.

Dr. Hallman Bryant, Professor Emeritus of English, retired in 2004. Since his retirement, he has taught at Furman University’s Learning in Retirement program as well as taught courses in English and American Literature at the Chautauqua Institute in Upstate New York.

JAMES BRANNAN, Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences, taught a short course entitled Mathematical Models in Biology and Climate Change at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan China in which he collaborated with Yayun Zhang (post doc at HUST) on climate transition models.  In 2017, Professor Brannan was invited to Colloquium Talks: Instability in Capatalistic Economic Systems as well as spoke at the China University of Geosciences and the Wuhan University of Technology.

JOHN ACORN, Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts, most current display was at the Anderson Arts Center from January 12-February 16, 2018 as part of Espana Conexiones de Arte (A Spain Inspired Exhibition) in association with the Anderson International Festival. See John’s description of the exhibition works below:  “The large low relief paintings are in honor of Joaquín Torres-García.  He was a Spanish artist who painted in the first half of the twentieth century.  When I visited Madrid about twenty-five years ago I saw his work in the Museum of Reina Sofía.  I enjoyed the everyday subjects and the directness of his work.  I purchased the exhibition catalog.

When Kimberly Spears (Anderson Arts Commission) asked me to exhibit art works that had a relationship to Spain I realized an opportunity to recognize Torres-García as well as Picasso. My connection to Spain is with a family whose daughter, Ana, lived with my family as an exchange student at Pendleton High School. 

The black and white relief paintings are titled Homage to Torres-Garcia.  I have shared his use of common objects with my interest in common objects.  I have also tried to use and share the structure of his paintings.

The steel sculpture in the exhibition is titled Homage to Picasso’s Guernica. The fish head is looking upward as bombs are being dropped on the City of Guernica in WWII by the Nazis.  The fish head was first made of wood with the intent of reproducing it in plate steel.  This was done locally by CSI, Consolidated Southern Industries in Anderson, SC. The large wooden sculpture is obviously a larger version of the fish head.  I have interest in having it reproduced in plate steel sometime in the future.”

John began his career as an assistant professor at Clemson University in 1961 and retired as Department Chair in 1998. Click HERE for more information about John and to see his works displayed at the Emeritus College Suite in Pendleton, SC.

Awards: Inducted into the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities Hall of Fame on Friday, March 9, 2018, as a member of the second class of inductees

Dr. Mark Charney, Professor Emeritus of Performing Arts, retired in 2012. Mark Charney served as Director of Theatre for the Department of Performing Arts at Clemson University for many years before retiring as a Professor Emeritus and accepting the role of Director of the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. A past Chair for Region IV, a past member of the National Selection Team, and presently National Coordinator of Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy/Dramaturgy for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Mark currently serves as Associate Director of the National Critics Institute for the O’Neill Theatre Center.

A playwright, a critic, and a professor, not necessarily in that order, Mark is the founder of WildWind Performance Lab and the Marfa Intensives, both training grounds for theatre artists, one holistically and the other, devised work. For three years, he was Co-Artistic Director of WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab, and he presently serves as Artistic Director of the International Schools of Southeast Asia, often taking him to places like Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta. He is an honorary member of the Actors Hall of Fame, based on his experience in criticism and dramaturgy, and is currently finishing a play, Garage Door, that will be performed at the Prague International Fringe Festival in June.

Published Writing: Lead writer for the new website/newsletter for McHenry County Arts. His production of SHOOTING BLANKS was performed in the Prague International Festival two years ago, and my new play GARAGE DOOR will be performed there  June 2018. His version of ANTIGONE, DANGLING MODIFIERS, was performed in the New Works Festival in Los Angeles last year. Dr. Charney’s production of INCLINE/DECLINE was performed in Austin, Texas.

Awards: Inducted into the Actors Hall of Fame for his work with Dramaturgy and Criticism with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival; National Medallion of Honor for the Arts, given to the O’Neill Theatre Center for his work with the National Critics Institute: his work as Chair took our Department of Theatre and Dance to the School of Theatre and Dance based on his work with experiential education. Won the Prestigious William Kerns Award in West Texas for Achievements in the Performing Arts

Teaching/Advising: Nominated this year for the President’s Teaching Award at Texas Tech; created WIldWind Performance Lab, a month long training program with 18 guests every June: was Artistic and now Executive Director. Created the Marfa Intensives, a two week devised theatre training program. Both have FB Pages

Exhibitions: Artistic Director of the International Association of the Schools of Southeast Asia; invited to Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta as a critic, playwright, and interdisciplinary team leader; He was the liaison in Hong Kong between the Academy of Performing Arts and my work as Director of the School of Theatre and Dance

Volunteering: Created a required semester long community activism class: Theatre and Dance in the Community, taken by every student in the Texas Tech program: BA, MA, MFA, PHD, BFA.

Dr. Wayne Chapman, Professor Emeritus of English, retired in 2016. While at Clemson he served as the Director for the Center for Electronic and Digital Publishing as well as editor for the CU Press. He has undertaken several worthwhile endeavors since his retirement. Click HERE to view Dr. Chapman’s website.

Book details and Published Writings: W. B. Yeats’s Robartes-Aherne Writings: Featuring the Making of His “Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends” (London: Bloomsbury Publishers, June 2018), pp. 411+ (illustrated). He is currently working on a descriptive bibliography of the W.B. and George Yeats library in the National Library of Ireland. Also, on April 2018, he saw through the press the third edition (revised) of An Annotated Guide to the Writings and Papers of Leonard Woolf (Clemson University Press, with his wife, Janet Manson. 

Publications in 2020-2021 include: “Something that I read in a book”: W. B. Yeats’s Annotations at the National Library of Ireland (Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2021), forthcoming in two volumes, c. 200,000 words (illustrated). Also, “Yeats’s Late Style” in The Oxford Handbook of W. B. Yeats, ed. Matthew Campbell and Lauren Arrington (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), forthcoming (7,000 words);  “George Yeats, Thomas Parkinson, and the Legacy of the Archive,” New Thresholds in Yeats Studies: Yeats Annual 22, ed. Warwick Gould (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2021), forthcoming [13,000 words; illustrated].  “Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle in Retrospect,” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 96 (Fall 2019-Fall 2020), 26-28. This article is part of a special issue entitled “Centennial Contemplations on Early Work by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf” edited by Rebecca Duncan. [Critical review:] Fred Leventhal and Peter Stansky, Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), reviewed for Woolf Studies Annual 26 (2020), 161-63. “In Memoriam: Molly Jane Hoff (1931-2019),” Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Fall 2019-Fall 2020), 8.  

Soon after retiring, Chapman published, “Easter, 1916 Redux,” International Yeats Studies, 1.2 (spring 2017): 1-17 (illustrated). “Yeats’s White Vellum Notebook, 1930-1933,” International Yeats Studies 2.2 (spring 2018), 41-60; and “My Yeats,” a memoir published on Yeats’s 153^rd birthday, on Bloomsbury Literary Studies blog, 13 June 2018. He also published the “Dedication [i.e. for Bill Koon and Frank Day]” to The South Carolina Review 50.2 (Spring 2018): 3-5.

Exhibitions: “Yeats Now and in the Next Generation: The Legacy of the Archives,” invited presentation for Bloomsbury Modernist Archives, University of York, May 17-19, 2018, with partial support from the Norwegian government, via Norway Studies Centre, University of York. He volunteered services as Associate Editor-in-Chief of The Timberline Review No. 7: Rebirth (August 2018), 157 pp., published by Willamette Writers, and will represent Clemson University Press with an exhibition at the Portland Book Festival, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, on November 10, 2018.

Dr. Chapman serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards (reviewing book proposals and manuscripts) of Bloomsbury Modernist Archives, Yeats Annual, International Yeats Studies, Yeats Annual and Clemson University Press. He also is the General Editor of the Virginia Woolf Selected Papers (monographic series), of which the most recent volume is Virginia Woolf and The World of Books (Clemson University Press, 2018). 

Dr. Ralph Elliott, Professor Emeritus of Economics, also served as Vice Provost before he retired in 2006.

Dr. Elliott made a huge impact during his time at Clemson.  At Clemson, Ralph was Director of Professional Development, Associate Dean for Executive Education, and Vice Provost for Off-Campus, Distance and Continuing Education. At the same time, he worked through the academic ranks from Assistant to Associate and on to full Professor of Economics. An annual award, the Ralph D. Elliot Endowed Award is given yearly in his honor and recipients of this award may be seen on a permanently displayed plaque in the Clemson University Madren Center. Dr. Elliott has continued to stay busy after retirement from Clemson with a successful consulting firm that provides  strategic marketing advice to institutions in the United States and throughout the the world: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rdeclemson/

Ralph also participates in the College’s Conversations with International Students program. Ralph is mentoring two students this year.  Jun and Ming are both from China and are very willing and eager to improve their English. Jun’s wife, Linyu, also joins the group from time to time! As a first time mentor, Dr. Elliott states that he thoroughly enjoys the experience with these students and appreciates their hard work and willingness to learn.