1946

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Events that occurred in 1946 in Clemson history

  • January 14: Control of the U.S.A.A.F. Isaqueena Bombing Range is transferred from Greenville AAB, later Donaldson AFB, to Shaw Field, later Shaw AFB, Sumter, S.C.
  • April 1: The Tiger ("The World's Most Uninteresting College Rag") publishes April Fools' issue (Volume XXXIX, Number 32a) - headlined "Shorty Is New President" with sub-head "Oscar is found dead in Latrine".
  • Summer: The first Pre-fabs, pre-fabricated buildings, go up on campus, in two styles, the single-family United Kingdom type, and a two-family model. These are needed to accomodate the crush of returning servicemen to school after their military duty in World War II. Fall enrollment for the 1946-1947 year sets a new record of 2,750, up from 2,300 in 1940-1941.
  • July: The Board of Trustees meets and bestows names on many campus sites. Morrison Road is named for William S. Morrison, the first professor of history at Clemson. Colonial Circle in front of the Hanover House is named, The Tiger reports in the July 12, 1946 edition. Further, the Main Building will now be named Tillman Hall for Benjamin Ryan Tillman, South Carolina governor, United States senator and life trustee of the college. Barracks No. 1 is named Simpson Hall in honor of the man who drew up the Thomas G. Clemson will and who served as chairman of the Board of Trustees. Barracks No. 2 is now named Johnstone Hall for State Senator Alan Johnstone of Newberry.
  • August: The new TAPS staff announces that the 1947 edition is in danger of not being produced as only 350 cadets have scheduled portraits, 35 percent of the student body. This will be the first yearbook at Clemson since wartime circumstances caused it to lapse for three years, the last printed in 1943.
  • August 8: President Robert Franklin Poole announces receipt by the college of a $30,000 grant from the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, to be dispensed over a three-year period.
  • August 10: The Chemistry Building (later named Hardin Hall) burns at dusk and the gabled roof is replaced with a flat one during rebuilding in the fall. This editor's father missed the excitement due to being laid up in the infirmary with a stomach bug.
  • August 23: The Jungaleers perform at a dance in Anderson.
  • August 30: CDA holds "Summer Finals" dances over two-day period. Friday night's affair in the Field House is semi-formal, $2.25 per couple, music by The Jungaleers, under the leadership of "Willie" Whisnant. Dates are quartered in the Physics Building, with city residents, and in some of the newly-erected G.I. pre-fab housing.
  • August 31: The Saturday night "Summer Finals" dance in the Field House is informal, $2 per couple, with music by Clemson's own Jungaleers. Coat check handled by the Block C Club with concessions operated by the Clemson Athletic Association.
  • Fall: William Bryan Keller takes over Judge Keller's Store from his father, founder Isaac Leonard Keller.
  • Fall: Professor Hugh H. McGarity joins faculty at Clemson as Associate Professor of Music, the first to hold this post in several years. A graduate of the University of Georgia in 1940 with a Bachelors in Music, with his Masters conferred in the summer of 1946. He will conduct the college band, coordinate all musical activities, and it is hoped that a student choir can be organized.
  • September 21: Perennial opening game fodder, Presbyterian comes to Clemson for a 39-0 spank.
  • September 27: The Tigers lose night game at Georgia, 12-35.
  • October 5: Clemson loses at home to N.C. State, 7-14.
  • October 7: TAPS photos begin to be taken, after additional cadets signed up for portraits.
  • October 12: Clemson is defeated by Wake Forest in road game, 7-19.
  • October 15: Sixty cadets turn out in the college auditorium (Tillman Auditorium) this night to reestablish a Glee Club after a three-year lapse.
  • October 23: The Jungaleers play at a pre-Carolina game dance at the Columbia Township Auditorium, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., with admission $1.50 per person or $2.75 per couple, as reported in The Tiger, October 21, 1946, (Volume XXXIX, Number 39).
  • October 24: The Tigers lose to the South Carolina Gamecocks in Columbia, 14-26. Counterfeit tickets had been printed and 10,000 more fans show up than capacity. They storm the gates and stand on the sidelines and in the end zones. Coach Howard recalled fans standing next to him telling him what plays to run.
  • October 31: The United States Navy Band performs at Clemson for the first time since 1941, in the Field House at 8 p.m., the second of five events in the Clemson Concert Series. Free admission to students, with Mu Beta Psi honorary music fraternity members as ushers.
  • November 2: Clemson wins at Virginia Tech, 14-7.
  • November 9: The Tigers take a 13-54 licking from Tulane in New Orleans.
  • November 11: Capt. John Douglas J.D. Harcombe, mess officer at Clemson for 26 years, dies at home early Monday morning, following several months of poor health, age 64. Arriving in 1920 as an experienced Army mess officer, he oversaw feeding a corps that grew from 847 to ~3,000 students.
  • November 16: Clemson defeats Furman in Memorial Stadium, 20-6.
  • November 23: Clemson beats the Auburn Tigers, 21-13, in a game played in Montgomery, Alabama, for a season record of 4-5, 2-3 in league play, for eleventh place in the Southern Conference.
  • December 6: Services are held for Clemson's 360 war dead in the Field House at 12:15 p.m.
  • December 9: World-renown violinist Fritz Kreisler performs in the college Field House.



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