Barbara Allbritton-grant:  

After graduating from Edmunds, I went straight on to Winthrop for summer school. The next summer I married my high school sweetheart, Doug Grant, class of '64. We were in Mr. Jones' trig class together. We are still together. I kept on attending Winthrop until I graduated in December, '67. He continued to attend Clemson. Getting his draft notice, he joined the Air Force. I joined him at Keesler, in Biloxi, Mississippi, for his advanced training as a ground radio repairman. Then he was stationed in Panama City Beach, Florida at Tyndell AFB. We could not have been more fortunate with his Vietnam era tour of duty. While we were living in PC, hurricane Camille came ashore, the house we had rented while in Biloxi was destroyed, so was the Grocery Store nearby and all the other houses on our street! I worked as the dietitian at Bay County Memorial Hospital until he finished his tour of service. Then we both headed back to Clemson. He completed his degree in Electrical Engineering, and I worked part time on my Master's in Nutritional Science while first working as a hospital dietitian, then teaching dietetic technology at Greenville Tech. For most of his professional career, Doug worked as a design engineer in the pulp and paper division of J. E. Sirrine, following a phase out of several programs at Tech, I taught high school culinary classes. In 1980, I became one of the initial 5 students in Clemson's first doctoral program in education. I got my degree in Vocational Education in '85. A few years lat...Expand for more