Category: Life After Retirement

Dr. Sandy King, Professor Emeritus of Languages, began teaching at Clemson University in 1971 and taught there until he retired in 2006.

Sandy’s research agenda as a professor was the history of photography and he wrote and published several scholarly books on the subject, including The Photographic Impressionists of Spain: A History of the Aesthetics and Technique of Pictorial Photography, New York, 1989, Schmidt de las Heras: Fotografías 1944-1960. La Coruñ

a (Spain), 1999, and El impresionismo fotográfico en España: Una historia de la técnica y de la estética de la fotografía pictorialista, Zarautz (Spain), 2000.

In the early 1970s Sandy became interested in creative photography and since that time has photographed extensively in his home areas of North and South Carolina, in other areas of the US, and also in Canada, China, Mexico, Turkey, and Spain.  His work has been exhibited widely and published in such magazines as Photovision, Silvershotz, View Camera, and most recently in Looking Glass Magazine, #15, 2016.

Sandy works in a beautiful and rare 19^th century printing process called carbon transfer, molding traditional craft of the early days of photography with tools of the digital age to create a unique vision of reality. The work is presented in many shades of

monochrome, as well as color, and has surface and textural qualities that are not possible in other photographic media. He has been primarily in the hand-made photograph. Making a photograph by hand, is a fascinating adventure in which one has maximum control over the printmaking syntax, which determine the final, tangible qualities of the photograph as object, including its color, texture, tonal scale and reflective qualities.

Sandy’s most recent publications include the following books:

 The Carbon Print, with John Lockhart. Self-published 2017.

Handcrafted: The Art and Practice of the Handmade Print. With Christina Anderson, Zhong Jianming, and Sam Wang. Hangzhou, China: Zhejiang Province Arts Publishing, 2014.

He is currently involved in writing another book on carbon printing that will be published by Focal Press and has work in exhibitions at PhotoCentral in Hayward, California and at Gold Street Studios in Trentham West, Australia. Dr. King’s work can be seen at the Emeritus College Gallery in Pendleton.

Dr. Del  Kimbler, Professor Emeritus in Industrial Engineering retired in 2008.  He has worked in photography since his teens and began exhibiting as he neared retirement. He was a supporter of The Arts Center in Clemson from its inception, and is a member of the Anderson Artist Guild. Del is a member of the Pendleton Square Artist Cooperative. Dr. Kimbler received his BSE from the University of South Florida 1976 and his PhD from Virginia Tech 1980. Del came to Clemson Univer

sity in January of 1987 in the department of Industrial Engineering, where he retired in 2008. Since his retirement, Del has had several notable publications which, include:

• Seasons of Clemson, Upstate Center for the Arts, Clemson 2010 (editor). A book of community photography.

• Emeritus College 2003-2013, Clemson University, Clemson 2013, D. L. Kimbler, Fred Sias and Deborah Thomason. Original photography and text with community contributions.

• Six invited works for Now and Then (curated exhibition), Pickens County Museum, 2012

• Dreamscape #1, Clemson Photoclub 4th Annual Member Show awarded Best in Show, 2013

• Shipshapes #3, Anderson Artist Guild Member Show, purchase award, 2016

Member of the Pendleton Square Artist Cooperative, which operates the Art Gallery on Pendleton Square, a retail gallery exhibiting art created by its members. Del also serves as treasurer of the cooperative. He has used his exhibition experience to coordinate display of emeriti art in the office and meeting areas of the Emeritus College. Dr. Kimbler’s work also is on display at the Emeritus College Gallery in Pendleton.

Dr. Lewis Fitch, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer and Electrical Engineering, retired in 1994 and has enjoyed music since his retirement.

Book Details: Wrote a humorous article about a peculiar contract for a musician and its consequences, published in The International Double Reed Journal .

Exhibition Details: Learned to play the bassoon on retiring. Since then, have appeared in numerous orchestral performances in Anderson, Clemson Central and Greer. Have played sax and occasionally double bass in several local groups, and appeared regularly for the last ten years in a woodwind quintet. Have performed on the recorder in the U.S. England, France and Uraguay. Most recently gave a talk on the recorder at the Clemson University Emeritus College. Directed a Recorder Music workshop at the Carolina Mountains Recorder society

Volunteer Details: Playing Contra Bassoon in the Foothills Symphony in Greer.

Dr. Roger Liska, Professor Emeritus of Construction Science and Management and Department Chair, retired in 2017. Roger states that being recently full retired, he is still learning how to be retired and these things are keeping him busy but he is having fun doing them:

1. I am serving as the Weaveonline assessment consultant for the College of AAH working with the various academic and non-academic units in improving and completing their annual reports and plans.  In this role I meet with individual assessment directors and department chairs to help them with their unique assessment situations and have been conducting workshops for the same groups on assessment matters with the objective of helping them improve their respective programs.

2. I am serving as Chair of the national American Institute of Constructors Constructor Certification Commission.  This is the national Commission that awards professional certifications based on meeting minimum educational qualifications and passing a national third-part examination over the skills and knowledge required of a professional constructor similar to State Licensing of Engineers and Architects.  The only difference is that certification is voluntary while state licensing is not.

3. I serve as a member of the American National Standards Institute Personnel Certification Accreditation Committee.  The mission  of this national committee is to review applications for accreditation from various types of national private and public organizations who desire to award certifications to their members. It is similar to national regional university accrediting groups such as SACS that accredits Clemson University and other universities in the southeast.

4. I am teaching a master degree class this semester for the Construction Science and Management Department on Construction Personnel Management on a part-time basis.

 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. Beth Kunkel, Professor Emerita of Food Science and Human Nutrition, retired in 2011. In her retirement, she has continued her work with nutrition. Her many activities are listed below:

Published Writing Details: Served as a co-author on a systematic review of the literature on effects of consumption of foods produced with genetic engineering technology on human health.  It should be published early 2018 and will accompany the evidence analysis project on the same topic for which I also served as co-author.

Advising Details: Has served as advisor for Slow Food Clemson University.  One of their major activities is to source, prepare and host a community meal prepared using the Slow Food principles of Good, Clean and Fair.  I serve as a resource for the preparation and service of this monthly meal.

Volunteer Details: I serve as chapter leader for Slow Food Upstate and market manager for the Slow Food Upstate Earth Market, the only certified Earth Market in the US.  I was a sponsored delegate to Terra Madre Salon del Gusto in Italy and Slow Food Nations in Denver.  I also volunteer with the Clemson Area Food Exchange and with Crop Improvement unit in PSA on a project saving seeds from the Bradshaw seed collection.  I have also helped to start a community garden at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.

Dr. Ron Moran, Professor Emeritus of English and Associate Dean, published a book of poetry in 2016 titled, Eye of the World. He also has poems published in the following journals: Tar River Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, The Lake (UK), Chiron Review, Town Creek Review, and The River. 

A lifelong photographer, Dr. Larry McCollough came to art photography after retiring from the philosophy department at Clemson University in 1998. Larry was a professor of philosophy at Clemson for 30 years. He has continued teaching philosophy at the Osher Life Long Learning Institute (OLLI) and is currently instructing a class on the meaning of life.

Larry has exhibited in shows throughout the Upstate including Clemson, Anderson, Belton and Pickens. He has won several awards for his work. Samples of his work can be seen at the Wine Bar in Pendleton and Anderson as well as in the Alumni Restaurant in Clemson, the OLLI Building and the Emeritus College Gallery in Pendleton.

Sam Wang, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts, retired in 2006.

Since retirement in 2006, Sam has continued to lecture, create new photographs, and publish. The bilingual monograph SAM WANG: 4 Decades of Photographic Explorations was published in China in 2010. Photography and Expression, co-authored with Zhong Jianming, and HANDCRAFTED: The Art and Practice of The Handmade Print, co-authored with Sandy King, Christina Z Anderson, and Zhong Jianming were published in China in 2014 and 2015 respectively and are both in second edition.

His most recent shows include a solo show in Charlotte at the Light Factory in 2016 and invitational shows in China, Australia, and Belgium in 2017. Sam work also is on display at the Emeritus College Gallery in Pendleton, SC.

Sam received an Elizabeth Verner award from SC Governor Nikki Haley and the SC Arts Commission in 2015 in recognized for his contribution to the arts in SC.

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”  ~ Henry David Thoreau

 www.samwang.us

Dr. Michael Morris, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, retired in 2013.

Book Details: (1) book of sole authorship: Language Politics of Regional Integration: Cases from the Americas.  New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.  (2) co-editorship of major journal issue including co-authorship of lead article:   “South Korea’s Rise in Comparative Perspective“, in Asian Perspective, vol. 41, no. 1, 2017.

Ireland Regnier, Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts, retired in 1988.   “Painting and music have been with me my whole life! It has formed who I am today!” –I. Regnier

Growing up in Texarkana, Arkansas, Ireland began painting and playing the guitar and piano at a very young age. Mr. Regnier credits his mother for supporting him throughout his pursuit of the arts. Right out of high school at the age of 18, Mr. Regnier was drafted into the infantry during World War II. He fought in New Guinea and the Philippines and then served on a submarine base during the occupation of Japan. During the war, his mother sent him a shoebox filled with paints, brushes and a rolled canvas. He made room in his knap sack for this treasure and began to paint and draw at every opportunity. Although hard, he is thankful his art and music provided him an oasis during those horrendous years of war.

Returning to the United States, the Bronze Star decorated veteran set his sights on a life filled with art and music. While Mr. Regnier waited for the fall session to begin college, he played baseball and during that summer a scout for the St. Louis Cardinals invited him to play for the team. The offer was enticing, but his ideal was to hold a paintbrush instead of a baseball bat. He began attending the Kansas City Art Institute and completed his schooling in three years by attending classes day and night and throughout the summers. He found work drafting and rendering for several architectural firms and later began to teach art to college students. After teaching classes at St. Petersburg Junior College, he began teaching art to architectural students at Clemson College (University) in 1961 and retired in 1988.

During his long tenure at Clemson, Mr. Regnier also taught on sabbaticals in Mexico and London. He has paintings on permanent display in the Greenville County Art Museum, Greenville, South Carolina and the South Carolina State Capital in Columbia. His work also has been shown in the Liz Cox Art Gallery, Pendleton, South Carolina and Lee Art Gallery on the Clemson University campus and has been exhibited in various worldwide exhibits. Ireland also has works on display at the Emeritus College Gallery.