Mell Hall Memorial
Item
Identifier
https://documentinghistory.clemson.edu/studentprojects/admin/item/818/
Title
Mell Hall Memorial
Type
Image
Format
image/jpeg
Source
Mell Hall Memorial, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.
Rights
Date
Dedicated Feb. 9, 1993. Viewed December 9, 2020.
Description
Commissioned by the Class of 1944 for its fiftieth anniversary, the Mell Hall Memorial was dedicated on Feb. 9, 1993. The project grew out of conversations that sculptor T.J. Dixon had with Clemson men who had served in World War II. “How can I make you understand?” said one veteran. “We were boys, mere boys, and then there was war and half of us were dead or wounded.” Together with James Nelson, Dixon captured this life-changing experience by depicting a carefree student sitting back-to-back with a weary soldier version of himself. Beneath the men, on either side of the veteran’s haunting words, are two plaques listing the fifty-three names of members of the Class of 1944 who were killed in the war.
Subject
Creator
T.J. Dixon
James Nelson
Contributor
Jessica Foster