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Withheld this 1965 pic of me at age 24 but here it is..
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Aug 28, 2023, 2:05 PM
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but since other folks are releasing their mug shots, here you go!
These 4 guys (me on right aka Bill Willis, age 24, married & living in a WW2 prefab house located near & above present baseball park) were the unpaid volunteer student sport’s writers on The TiGER’s student campus newspaper.
Sammi Carros, 2nd from left,, later became Sports Editor.
We guys wrote weekly independent sport’s articles on current events that were given to us my our Editor to cover, interviewed coaches & players of various sports teams and sometimes were given state-owned cars to drive to various away games and had full press box privileges.
We would bring our handwritten or typed articles to a 2nd floor office by a certain timeframe before printing date where clerical staff took them, corrected or shortened them and gave them the neat tittles and we’d anxiously wait to see the paper days later which was distributed in stands around campus but usually at the Loggia in a huge rack located between the Tin Cans central entrance.
Seeing one’s article was sometimes shocking what with the title, the pic used, the amount of corrections or how much the article was shortened! Felt a bit like a 1940’s actor who first sees the movie he/she acted in and their main parts and/or lines were deleted.
But, it was a super gig and maybe a reason I write on TNet a lot and way too much.
I still have yellowed old paper copies of some of my articles concerning interviewing Coach Howard, Bob Jones, Bonnie Banks McFadden, members of the FB & BB teams, etc..and maybe one day (after 58 years & 15 here) I will post a pic of them.
The two funniest ones being “The Day Coach Howard kicked me out of Fife” and the basketball article I wrote while in Greenville Hospital in Jan 1966 while in a traction bed for a fractured right hip in 28 fragments and was still a bit on morphine and which got the Sports Editor to replace me!
I had a great Clemson buddy & fellow student, Larry Walters, who would visit me and I believe he may have carried this particular article back to The TiGER staff.
Ha..what fun and good ole days @ Clemson College in 1959-1966, ratting & rat caps, climbing the greased Flag pole in front of Tillman, seeing the fiery Gator Farr at a pre bonfire pep rally at the Amphitheater, thumbing rides home, being single & married to compare, the CLEM in Cadence Count, Dan & Dan’s Sandwich Shop, President RC & Moonpie, AF ROTC marching practices on what is now tennis courts, the YMCA and seeing weird movies, thinking football players were campus gods, eating a steak meal at a Walhalla steak house on Friday nights for a Buck, etc~
Go TiGERS..ROCK whether old or modern!
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Re: Withheld this 1965 pic of me at age 24 but here it is..
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Aug 28, 2023, 2:07 PM
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Nice pic.
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Ahh, to be 24 again...i but you wish could go back in time again..
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Aug 28, 2023, 2:10 PM
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You're old .
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Orange Blooded [3230]
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Re: Ahh, to be 24 again...i but you wish could go back in time again..
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Aug 28, 2023, 2:31 PM
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I middle aged and I wish I could go back to 24. So many mistakes made.
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I'll bet.***
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Aug 28, 2023, 3:01 PM
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Orange Blooded [3230]
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Re: I'll bet.***
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Aug 28, 2023, 4:54 PM
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How do you not have 100% as a donor? That's almost impossible do without being a kook. Good work, bud.
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Re: Ahh, to be 24 again...i but you wish could go back in time again..
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Aug 29, 2023, 2:05 PM
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i'd go back in time,only if i could take what i've learned over the last 77 yrs. with me.otherwise i'll just be grateful to the GOOD LORD for what H'ES given me that being when,where,and with whom i've lived.whoever said that youth is wasted on the young was a genius!
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Orange Blooded [2412]
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Re: Withheld this 1965 pic of me at age 24 but here it is..
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Aug 28, 2023, 2:09 PM
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You look a bit like Charles Grodin.
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Re: Withheld this 1965 pic of me at age 24 but here it is..
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Aug 28, 2023, 2:10 PM
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Awesome post! Tgg he Ann’s for sharing Bill!
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Re: Withheld this 1965 pic of me at age 24 but here it is..
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Aug 28, 2023, 2:10 PM
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And….that’s what auto correct did to, “ thanks for sharing Bill!”
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Rival Killer [2691]
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Re: Withheld this 1965 pic of me at age 24 but here it is..
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Aug 28, 2023, 2:20 PM
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Funny. I thought we were closer in age. I was only 3 years old in 1965; born in Beaufort, raised in Clemson.
Thanks for sharing Bill.
GO TIGERS!!!
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Re: Withheld this 1965 pic of me at age 24 but here it is..
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Aug 28, 2023, 2:29 PM
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You and I are about the same age. I remember The Tiger well. I think that I wrote a few articles for THE TIGER and the AGRARIAN back in those days. Clemson was great then and ever greater today. I loved it then even though there was a shortage of young female students! How did I survive that??? More importantly, the basketball arena was jam packed on game night and extremely loud. Remember LBB?
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Yep FORESTTIGER, the tall McHaffey? Brothers gave us hope in BB
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Aug 28, 2023, 2:40 PM
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and the ole Fife gym rocked as loud & as sweaty hot as Duke’s ole Cameron still does on those rare nights the Devils & Heels came to play.
LJ has never supplanted Fife’s excitement & overall experience even after a zillion millions spent on it. Size can matter (small & intimate) as well as teams that have a real zest for winning.
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Re: Yep FORESTTIGER, the tall McHaffey? Brothers gave us hope in BB
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Aug 28, 2023, 2:52 PM
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The younger Mahaffey lived next to me on E5 and became a close friend. We were called Mutt and Jeff because of my “limited” height! He was more than a foot taller than me! Those were the days!
Remember when the most exciting thing on campus was “shooting squirrels”???
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Re: Yep FORESTTIGER, the tall McHaffey? Brothers gave us hope in BB
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Aug 29, 2023, 10:53 AM
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Randy was in my 1st semester dorm and warned me that I was going to flunk out for spending so much time in front of the TV. Richie was in my chemistry class that same semester - both good guys.
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Athletic Dir [1161]
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Re: Withheld this 1965 pic of me at age 24 but here it is..
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Aug 28, 2023, 3:36 PM
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I began my junior year in 1965, and those were the good old days. The Tiger was a good paper then but went to crap a few years later.
Bill, all of the old The Tiger issues are online. Just google Clemson The Tiger Tiger Prints, select the year, the edition, and download. You can read your old articles.
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Re: Withheld this 1965 pic of me at age 24 but here it is..
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Aug 28, 2023, 2:58 PM
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Bill. I was THE editorial writer for the Tiger in 1965 and 1966. You sports writers must have been snowflakes because I had to turn my column in typed. Not handwritten.So, I would go to the old geology. Classroom bldg located behind the YMCA, AND use an old manual typewriter to type my column. I had a key to the bldg and go in about midnight and type. The night watchman would always check on me. I did my best creative writing late at night.
My column was never changed, maybe spelling corrections. I had to type it on that unprinted newspaper and that is what went to the printer who I think was in Pendleton or Seneca. The Tiger came out on Friday morning and I think it went to press on Thurs. A.m. or Wed. I TOOK ON THE SACRED COWS, and had a big following. My writing style was pre Andy Rooney. I used a lot of satire and sarcasm in my writing.
I also wrote short stories for The Chronicle and was humor editor. Frank Pierce, field goal kicker on football team also wrote for the Chronicle.
I still have my original rat hat.
We had some see great times from 1961_66. Met my wife of 55 years at Clemson. I was a junior and she was a freshman. I moved to the Y my senior year so I would not have to buy the mandatory meal plan which I hardly used. AFROTC marching on Bowman field. AFROTC summer camp at Shaw AFB. GOING ON WEEKEND EXCURSIONS TO WHAT IS NOW UNDERWATER BY LAKES KEOWEE AND TOXIWAY And whitewater falls. Killed a 6 foot long rattlesnake on one of the trips in my roommates 1947 chev.which would vapor lock in the hills above Walhalla.
My mom and dad dropped me off at Tillman hall. I had a duffle bag, and 2 small suitcases. Went into business office, checked in and got my dorm key and off I went to the tin cans to find my room. Hitched rides home and hitched (thumbed) ride back to Clemson. Had to go thru every small town between Clemson and Greenville as no bypasses were built back then.
Our paths probably passed during those years we were on the Tiger. Mark Steadman was my mentor. Best professor at Clemson IMHO.
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Orange Immortal [65998]
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That "mandatory" meal plan must have ended
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Aug 29, 2023, 11:00 AM
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in '67 for those in dorms because I was still in the dorms that year and did not get the plan that year. Lots of fried egg sandwiches from the canteen off the quad for breakfasts and trips to Dan's for supper.
Wish I could get one of his burgers for lunch on gamedays (and for the same mid-'60s price.)
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Aug 28, 2023, 3:04 PM
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Thanks for sharing LBB, good to read of fun times then. I graduated in 1981, thank goodness the student population was about 40% female then
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Aug 28, 2023, 3:04 PM
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......."1959-1966"
Wow, Bill! It only took you seven years to graduate?
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Aug 28, 2023, 5:58 PM
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That’s called the Stetson Bennett plan at UGA
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Aug 28, 2023, 9:04 PM
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Yeah, but unfortunately Stetson never graduated.
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Aug 28, 2023, 3:26 PM
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I was on the Tiger photo staff part of my 74-78 years at Clemson. Enjoyed the access we were given to sporting events and guest speakers. Some of my best work was for the “buzzard” issues. You mentioned RC and moon pie. I took a shot of a six pack of RC cola and some moon pies on the presidents house lawn. So much fun. And yes, I did get called into the dean of students office and given a warning. Wonder where those old pictures are. Go Tigers!
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Aug 28, 2023, 3:32 PM
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I would like to see you, Clover65 and a few others with a book about the experiences at Clemson, while in the military and just interesting events in your lives.
They would make great gifts for Clemson / Tigernet friends and family.
Thank you for sharing post and photo.
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Re: Withheld this 1965 pic of me at age 24 but here it is..
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Aug 29, 2023, 11:04 AM
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I think I have posted everything I did in all those years right here that I could without being banned.
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Aug 28, 2023, 3:32 PM
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Walhalla Steak House in the early 70's was, I believe, $1.75 for a steak, fries and Grits. May have included tea!
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Aug 28, 2023, 3:44 PM
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Thanks for sharing the old photos and stories about all of you old grads - good stuff!
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I did not realize Dan Rather went to Clemson
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Aug 28, 2023, 3:55 PM
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great picture
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Aug 28, 2023, 4:52 PM
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Best reading in a long time…..thanks Bill. Same to all those whose memories were rattled with their comments.
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This is my 1967 picture
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Aug 28, 2023, 4:58 PM
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I had a few friends too but they didn’t make it!
You were so handsome Bill!
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Re: This is my 1967 picture
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Aug 28, 2023, 5:00 PM
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1967 with my friends!
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That Jerry Baron looks like a he11raiser
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Aug 28, 2023, 8:45 PM
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You keep up with any of these guys through the many years Bill?
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No SocMan2…don’t think I saw them much after photo
Aug 28, 2023, 9:20 PM
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since we came & went billy-willy just to bring our articles and left..plus I was married & a bit off campus.
And, didn’t know any of these other 3 writers Jerry much except Sammie a little more said I believe we went to Duke in car to cover a weird 3-2 Clemson win.
Oh, why do you use the 2 with your name?
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Re: No SocMan2…don’t think I saw them much after photo
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Aug 29, 2023, 6:47 AM
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SocMan2 -- rhymes with Katmandu -- that's all.
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Aug 28, 2023, 9:24 PM
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Looking dapper Bill. 👍🏼
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Aug 29, 2023, 6:28 AM
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Very cool! I was on The Tiger staff as well much later. Great memories.
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