Note: The following appears in the Syracuse gameday football program
What makes this place special is different for every student that walks this campus. Each student leaves his or her legacy in a different part of campus, and each student that begins his or her journey can notice something different about this place. After all, with each student leaving a piece of himself or herself here, this school represents the heart of each of the over 150,000 students who have the privilege of saying, “I went to Clemson.”
Just as the founder of Tigerama, Joe Sherman, wrote in his famous poem, “Something in These Hills,” there is something uniquely special to each individual Tiger “Beneath the Orange Colored Sky.” Tigerama 2018 sparks reflection among students, alumni and community members alike.
The perfectly-painted sky signifying another day is coming to a close allows us to reflect not only on that day, but the time we have had at Clemson. It instills gratitude and admiration for this place in those that experience the iconic view of the Clemson sunsets as they fall over Lake Hartwell and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Students and alumni fall in love with every orange-colored, purple-striped sky that Nat King Cole sings about in the most famous cover of “Orange Colored Sky.” “Beneath” signifies the line in the song, “Taps,” which was played throughout campus when Clemson was strictly a military school. The line sings, “‘neath the sun, ‘neath the stars, ‘neath the sky.”