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    Posted December 4, 2008 by
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    Clemson, South Carolina
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    Clemson University President Emeritus R.C. Edwards dies

    By wjbcast  |  Posted December 4, 2008  |  Clemson, South Carolina
     

     

    Robert Cook Edwards, 94, president of Clemson University for 21 years,

    died Thursday, Dec. 4, at Cottingham House, a Seneca residence operated

    by Hospice of the Foothills.

     

    Edwards,

    the eighth and longest-serving chief executive of Clemson, and his

    wife, Louise Odom Edwards, who died in July, served the university

    during a time of phenomenal growth and monumental events that shaped

    the future of the institution, such as the graduation of Clemson’s

    first female students and the enrollment of its first black students, including Harvey Gantt, the first black mayor of Charlotte, NC.

     

     

    In 2000, Edwards talked on camera about Gantt's enrollment at Clemson and what it meant to him personally.

     

     

     

     

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