Scope and Content Note This series contains the files of the Athletic Department of Clemson University. The series contains correspondence, memoranda, general files, sports contracts, strength training records of varsity sports (a five percent sampling), blueprints and photographs.The bulk of the files is correspondence of the Athletic Director Bill McLellan, 1971-1985, Associate Athletic Director and Golf Coach Robert "Bobby" Robinson, 1973-1985; IPTAY Executive Secretary Joe Turner, 1980-1983; and...

Abstract The Central Dance Association (CDA) records are valuable for researching one of the major student organizations at Clemson from 1932 into the 1970s. Before 1955, during Clemson’s all-male military era, the CDA sponsored up to a dozen dance weekends per year for cadets and their dates. Music was provided by locally, regionally and occasionally nationally famous bands and orchestras. After 1955, the group gradually offered fewer dances but prioritized bringing nationally popular musical...

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Clemson Professor Joseph L. Arbena conducted a series of interviews between the years 1980 and 1983 as part of research for a 1984 book that he helped edit titled IPTAY: The First Fifty Years. The interviews focus on the establishment and evolution of the IPTAY organization during the fifty year period 1934-1984.