Blue Hose fans celebrated Dr. Joe Gettys' 101st birthday before PC played Clemson at the Drive Stadium in Greenville on Wednesday, April 23.
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The class of 2001 began the leadership for Alumni Green, a gathering place for alumni located on West Plaza between Jacob's Hall and Smith Administration. The Class of 2008 helped bring the idea to completion. Construction of Alumni Green began April 14. The center walkway and plaza (pictured above) will be completed between May 5th and May 9th. The perimeter walkway (found in the picture below) will be completed next summer.
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Alum publishes book of poems
 William P. Jacobs, III, PC 1940, has published a book of poetry and memoirs entitled My Sentiments Exactly. The book consists of 123 pages of Jacobs’ poetry and his recollections, including memories of his service in the US armed forces during WWII.
Incidentally, Jacobs says that during his years in service, he was never assigned where he didn’t run into other PC grads.
In 1939 he attended a New York University Summer Radio Workshop studying, in particular, radio drama; following which he returned to PC to be a student assistant to Professor Hugh Holman, writing and directing student actors in weekly half-hour radio dramas depicting events in South Carolina history. The programs were sent out as recordings to eight stations in SC, NC, and Georgia.
While at PC he earned a major in English and was art director of both PC magazines which preceded Figs and Thistles and the PaC SaC.
Jacobs is a great-grandson and namesake of PC’s founder and son of William P. Jacobs II, who was president of the college from 1935 to 1945. His nickname, P3, was given to him by students, as he was the third William P. Jacobs to have a connection with the College.
A few years after the death of his first wife, Sue, he married Erna Sommer Jacobs, from Hungary. They live at the Clinton campus of South Carolina Presbyterian Retirement Communities. She commutes to Columbia, where she works in the Governor’s Office for Constituent Services.
His book, My Sentiments Exactly, can be bought at PC’s bookstore, The Depot, in downtown Clinton.
In case you cannot get to Clinton to pick up a copy, check William’s web site, http://www.williampjacobs.com. No computer? Write him at Presbyterian Retirement Community, 801 Musgrove St., Unit 83, Clinton, SC 29325.
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