Category: Life After Retirement

Dr. Walker Miller, Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology and Physiology and Extension Specialist, retired in 1999. He owns and operates The Happy Berry (www.thehappyberry.com) a u-pick berry farm in Six Mile, SC. He presents lecturers on global climate change. The lectures focus on “Agriculture: Part of the Problem and Solution.” He is an advocate of adaptation and mitigation for the future of agriculture and involved in discussions with our state legislators and University officials.

Dr. Stuart Silvers, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Chair, retired in 2011.

Teaching and Advising Details: Each semester I mentor foreign graduate students and teaching assistants to improve their English language proficiency

Other: I continue to participate as a grader in the Clemson English Speaking Proficiency (CESP) program

Elaine Richardson, Professor Emerita of Animal and Veterinary Sciences and Director, retired in 2014. In 2017, she coordinated a team to participate in Pledge the Pink, a 3 Day/ 3 Island/ 10 miles a day walk to raise money for screening, treatment, and breast cancer research.  Her team, the Tumornators, had 9 members

who collectively raised over $4000.

Published Writing Details: Conducted a survey to gather data about the use of advisory boards in learning centers. Results were incorporated into a journal article about best practices in learning centers.  Craig, A., Richardson, E., & Harris, J. (2018).  Learning center advisory boards:  results of an online exploratory survey.  The Learning Assistance Review, 23(2), 85-112.

Exhibition Details: Invited presentation to SC Senate DOC Oversight Subcommittee on benefits of providing higher education opportunities to inmates.

Volunteer Details: Serving on Clemson Historic West End neighborhood board.  Member of City of Clemson Board of Zoning Appeals.

President, Board of Directors for Carolina Cups,  nonprofit public charity dedicated to funding breast cancer screening, treatment and research.  Pledge the Pink (a 3 day, 10 miles per day walk) is the signature fundraising event for Carolina Cups.

Co-captain for Tumornators, a team participating in the Pledge the Pink walk for the second consecutive year.  The Tumornators represent the Clemson Area Bosom Buddies, a local breast cancer support group.  Event will be held October 26-28, 2018.

Vice-president, Board of Directors for Clemson Area Bosom Buddies, a breast cancer support group.  I’ve been involved in this support group since 1996.  In 2018, we applied for and received non-profit status.  I led application for grant from the Dabo Swinney All In Foundation to fund support group activities; results pending.

Led application for joint application (local residents, Clemson Arts and Cultural Commission, and Clemson Center for the Arts) for 2018 Hughes Investments Elevate Upstate Grant to provide seed money for IDEAS Festival.  We have been selected as one of 5 finalists, with presentation and final awards announced in mid November.

Appointment by Governor Henry McMaster to the Palmetto Unified School District Board, effective November 12, 2018.

Board Member for National College Learning Center Association as Certification Chair.  Chair for learning Centers of Excellence Committee.

Other Details: 
Presentations at 2018 National College Learning Center Association, Niagara Falls, NY, October 2-6
*Unleash the Power of An Advisory Board for Your Learning Center.  Alan Craig, Elaine Richardson, and Jackie Harris
*Learning Center of Excellence Criteria.  Laura Sanders and Elaine Richardson
*NCLCA Past Presidents Panel Discussion.  NCLCA Past Presidents

2018 Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education Presentation, October 8-9, Atlanta, GA.
*Resource Exchange Fair
*Language Skills Support for International Students.  Elaine Richardson and Adolph Beyerlein (unable to attend).

Dr. John Morse, Professor Emeritus of Entomology, retired in 2008.

Conventional wisdom around Clemson has long been that, until very recently, avenues for emeritus faculty to continue Clemson-based scholarly activity were simply not available. John Morse, Professor Emeritus of Entomology, has demonstrated that, with a little determination, a high level of scholarly activity could be maintained long after the transition to emeritus status.

John will soon have been “retired” for ten years, yet he is still publishing, receiving awards, mentoring students, volunteering to teach Creative Inquiry and other courses, leading expeditions to exotic places to teach and collect specimens of caddisflies. Caddisflies? 

Well, for those of you who are not up-to-date on caddisflies, there are more than sixteen thousand different species of these aquatic insects that are related to moths and butterflies. Among other things, caddisflies are favorite models for the tied flies of trout anglers and are useful indicators of the extent to which a body of water has become polluted. Needless to say, John continues to be one of the world’s leading caddisfly researchers. Check out the stock caddisfly photo.

John has

contributed much to Clemson (where he and Suzanne have endowed a chair), to the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics (where he is the school’s longest serving mentor), and other worthy endeavors. 

Book Details: Morse, J.C., W.P. McCafferty, B.P. Stark, & L.M. Jacobus (Editors). 2017. Larvae of the Southeastern USA Mayfly, Stonefly, and Caddisfly Species (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera). Biota of South Carolina, volume 9. Technical Bulletin 1109, PSA Publishing, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. 482 pp. Library of Congress Control Number: 2017933502
Click HERE for information.

Morse, J.C., R.W. Holzenthal, & O. Yadamsuren. 2017. Chapter 4, Trichoptera. Pp. 248–442 in: J.C. Morse, Morse, J.C., McCafferty, B.P. Stark, & L.M. Jacobus (Editors). 2017. Larvae of the Southeastern USA Mayfly, Stonefly, and Caddisfly Species (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera). Biota of South Carolina, volume 9. Technical Bulletin 1109, PSA Publishing, Clemson University, Cle

mson, South Carolina. 482 pp. Click HERE for information.

published-writing-details: Morse, J.C. 2017. Biodiversity of aquatic insects. Pp. 205–227 In: R.G. Foottit & P.H. Adler (Eds.), Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society, volume 1, second edition. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Yang, L-f., H-y. Yuan, & J.C. Morse. 2017. Lannapsyche and Marilia species of China (Trichoptera: Odontoceridae). Zootaxa 4320(1): 81–99.
Click HERE for information.

Genco, M.S. & J.C. Morse. 2017. Pupae of North American Glossosomatidae (Trichoptera). Freshwater Science. 36(4): 816–822.
DOI: 10.1086/694336
Open Access in Freshwater Science:  Click HERE for information.

Award Details: Clemson University, College of Agriculture, Forestry, & Life Sciences Distinguished Service Award, presented on 10 January 2017

Teaching/Advising Details: As unpaid volunteer: Taught Creative Inquiry fall and spring semesters, 2016-2017. Taught Aquatic Insects course spring semester, 2017. Advised the MS research of 2 graduate students (Co-Major Advisor) and research of 1 undergraduate student in fall and spring semesters 2016-2017. Currently, I am co-teaching the graduate-level Taxonomy of Immature Insects course.

Exhibition Details: Provided an invited lecture, “Contemporary Studies in Freshwater Entomology,” at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Denver, CO,

Volunteer Details: I have taught Sunday School for children in grades 5-7 at First Baptist Church, Pendleton, SC, for the past 30+ years. I am a Deacon of the Church, and serve as Church Moderator and Sanctuary Choir member.

I led an expedition with two graduate students to collect caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) in Vietnam during 21 June-6 July 2017.

Dr. Robert Waller, Professor Emeritus of History and Dean, retired in 2000.

Book Details: Recently published Relief, Recreation, Racism: Civilian Conservation Corps Creates South Carolina State Park System, 1933-1942 with Xlibris Press. Review available here or visit The Living New Deal website.

Volunteer Details: Recently received “Certificate of Appreciation” from the Residents Advisory Council at Freedom Pointe in The Villages for eight years of service as Parliamentarian.

Dr. Bill Stringer, Professor Emeritus of Agronomy and Soils, retired in 2011. Dr. Stringer is passionate about native plants and gave a seminar entitled: Native Plants: Good Habitat for People and Animals to the Emeritus College faculty in 2017. He also has been bringing attention to the  decommissioning of some of the recreation areas in SC.  Bill is leading the effort to preserve Parks Mill in McCormick County.  This 12.8 acre site on Stevens Creek received permanent protected status through the efforts of the SC Native Plant Society, Naturaland Trust, and the Upper Savannah Land Trust.  This site is important for its large population of Rocky Shoals Spider Lily (Hymenocallis coronaria), a rare and beautiful native plant that grows in shoaly waters of Piedmont streams.  It only occurs in a very few places in South Carolina, and the Parks Mill site was the last significant unprotected population in SC until 2016.  In addition, there is a historic, largely intact, but non-functional, water-powered grist mill. For more information, see http://scnps.org/activities/rocky-shoals-spider-lily-preservation-project.

Published Writing Details: Working on publishing the next issue of The Journal of The South Carolina Native Plant Society.  To see past issues, click HERE

Teaching/Advising Details: October 2017- Taught a course in Native Grass ID for the Native Plant Society/Botanical Garden’s Native Plant Course of Study program.  Click HERE to learn more.

Dr. David Grigsby, Professor Emeritus of Management, retired in 2011. Dr. Grigsby has enjoyed his retirement through volunteering, currently serving as Chair of the governing board of the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Arts Center in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.  He was recently named Volunteer of the Year by the Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce for activities associated with the annual Peter Anderson Festival and is a continuing Member of the Vestry and Treasurer of St. John’s Episcopal Church.