The Joseph C. Ellers collection includes audio tapes and one letter sized box of manuscript materials which document interviews and research conducted in the mid-1980s by Joseph C. Ellers for his book Getting To Know Clemson University Is Quite An Education: Determination Makes Dreams Come True.
Thirty-nine cassette tapes include interviews with: Luther P. Anderson, Carl Boyd, Bob Bradley, Herbert Brantley, Stephen Chapman, H. Morris Cox, Walter Cox, Harvey Gantt, Willie C. Godley, Gordon Gray, Trescott Newton Hinton, James Cleveland Hite, Victor Hurst, Geraldine Labecki, Harlan McClure, William H. Davis McGregor, George M. Moore, Stanley Gosanko Nicholas, Wayne O'Dell, Judge Matthew Perry, Linvil G. Rich, Gilbert C. Robinson, Corrine Sawyer, Arnold E. Schwartz, Taze L. Senn, Virginia Shanklin, Lawrence V. Starkey, Wallace Trevillian, Joe Turner, Kenneth N. Vickery, Henry E. Vogel, William L. Watkins, Byron K. "Bud" Webb, Melford A. Wilson, and Thomas B. Yandle.
The interviews commonly follow a pattern of discussing the education of the interviewee, how they came to be at Clemson, and general recollections of changes within the departments they were affiliated with while employed at the university. The manuscript materials contain early drafts and research notes.
Note: This site makes the cassette tape recordings available digitally. Not all of the recordings in this collection have been digitized. For access to the interviews not available on this site please contact the Clemson Special Collections and Archives.