Remembering the Days

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  Episode 76: Three in One: The Women’s Quad

  Chris Horn, Connie Hough, Megan Sexton, Page Ivey, Marjorie Duffie, Elizabeth Calhoun, and Kristen Kennedy

  A century ago, USC built its first dormitory for women, whose presence on campus had not been warmly welcomed when the first females arrived in the 1890s. While women's dorms have come and gone on campus, the Women's Quad retains its status as the original location for and the only present location of women's-only residence halls at the university.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, women dorms, women, Sims, McClintock, Wade Hampton

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  Episode 77: USC During Reconstruction

  Chris Horn, Betsy Newman, and Christian Anderson

  USC's modern desegregation took place in 1963 when three African American students enrolled at the historically white university — but they actually weren't the first black students in the university's history. For a brief window in the 1870s, USC became the only state-supported public university in the South to open its doors to white and black students alike.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, desegrattion, African American students, black students, Henry Hayne

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  Episode 78: Motto, Seal, and Mace: Enduring Symbols of USC

  Chris Horn, Jason Osborne, Hunter Gardner, and Emmie Thompson

  Everyone knows the Horseshoe is the oldest part of the University of South Carolina campus. But there are two things — the university motto and seal — that are even older than USC's historic district.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, Horseshoe, University of South Carolina mott, seal

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  Episode 79: Beat Dook! The First Breakthrough Win of the Frank McGuire Era

  Chris Horn, Jack Thompson, Joe Wachter, and Bruce Rothman

  When Frank McGuire arrived at USC in 1964, Gamecock fans knew they had a winning basketball coach. But early in McGuire's second season, the team had three starters who had never played against a conference opponent. Their first such matchup on Dec. 6, 1965 — the No. 3-ranked Blue Devils of Duke University.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, basketball, Frank McGuire, Blue Devils of Duke University, conference opponent

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  Episode 80: 100 Years of Making Music: The School of Music’s Centennial

  Chris Horn, Tayloe Harding, Gail Barnes, Beth Reed, Mandi Schlagel, Ed Brown, and Ray Dunnavant

  It began as a music department with only two professors and grew into one of the region's premier music schools. USC's School of Music is celebrating its 100th anniversary of making beautiful music in 2024.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, School of Music, centennial, music school

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  Episode 81: Happy Birthday, USC: The University’s Centennial and Bicentennial

  Chris Horn, Harry Lesesne, Sally McKay, and Brooke Stillwell

  The University of South Carolina has been around a long time — long enough to celebrate its 100th and 200th birthdays with the 250th less than 30 years away.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, birthday, Centennial, bicentennial, 100th birthday, 200th birthday

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  Episode 82: Collapsing Shower Stalls and Crumbling Mortar: The Restoration of the Horseshoe

  Chris Horn and Jason Lambert

  In the early 1970s, USC's historic Horseshoe buildings had fallen into disrepair while new buildings sprouted across the campus. The university began a long renovation and restoration project that systematically rejuvenated each 19th century building, and the vigilant maintenance process continues to this day.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, Horseshoe, restoration, DeSaussure, Rutledge

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  Episode 83: Left of the Dial and Right in Your Ear: The History of WUSC-FM

  Chris Horn, Rick Wringley, Frank Cain, Evie Ellis, Brent Riley, and Clair de Lune

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, WUSC-FM, radio station, DJ, radio engineers, station managers

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  Episode 84: Jonathan Maxcy and the Maxcy Monument

  Chris Horn, Elizabeth West, and Michael Amiridis

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, Jonathan Maxcy, Maxcy monument, President

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  Episode 85: The British are Coming! How the Rugby Club Beat the Brits at Their Own Game

  Chris Horn, John Roberts, Fred Holland, Rebel Lebel, Burke Hayes, and George Lussier

  The USC Rugby Club has been on the field for more than 50 years, and the squad's success in its early years included a dramatic match and rematch with British naval personnel in 1973.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, USC Rugby Club, Rugby, Sandy Frazier

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  Episode 86: Gamecock Jeopardy!

  Chris Horn and Elizabeth West

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, University of South Carolina trivia, Jasper Johns, Leeza Gibsons, history, trivia, University of South Carolina Football Vault: The History of the Gamecocks, On the Horseshoe: A Guide to the Historic Campus of the University of South Carolina

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  Episode 87: Earth, Wind, and Fire: Natural and Manmade Disasters on Campus

  Chris Horn and Jason Lambert

  Almost from the beginning in the early 19th century, the Carolina campus has had its share of natural and manmade disasters, including earthquakes, windstorms, fires and floods. Those threats persist in the 21st century, but the modern campus has a facilities team that works around the clock to prevent or at least mitigate the effects of those threats.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, natural disasters, manmade disasters, earthquakes, windstroms, fires, floods, facilities services

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  Episode 90: Mr. South Carolina: Walter Edgar

  Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn

  For nearly 40 years, Walter Edgar taught the history of South Carolina as a member of USC's history department faculty and continues to illuminate the history of the Palmetto State on his podcast, Walter Edgar's Journal. In this conversation, he remembers his early days as a graduate student and young faculty member at the university.

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  Episode 91: Digging in the Dirt: Kelly Goldberg

  Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn

  When USC's historic Horseshoe underwent major renovations in the 1970s, a series of archaeological digs uncovered 19th century water wells and other artifacts from a bygone era. Now Kelly Goldberg, an Honors College instructor of archaeology, is leading a series of excavations with students on the Horseshoe to find more artifacts that help tell the story of USC's past.

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  Episode 92: A Touch of Faith: A gospel choir marks 50 years on campus

  Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn

  In the decade after USC desegregated, the small but growing number of Black students wanted to establish a sense of belonging on a big campus that was growing bigger every year. In 1975, they established the Southern Christian Fellowship student group with a gospel choir called A Touch of Faith.

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  Episode 89: The Legacy of Slavery at South Carolina College with Dr. Jill Found

  Evan Faukenbury and Chris Horn

  Ph.D. graduate Jill Found wrote a dissertation on the history of enslaved people at South Carolina College, which helped tell the story of some of the university's overshadowed people from the past.

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  Episode 88: Sixty Years of Transformation: Harry Lesesne on the Making of a Modern University

  Evan Faukenbury and Chris Horn

  More than 25 years ago, Harry Lesesne was a doctoral history student at USC, tasked with writing a new history about the university that would cover the years 1940 to 2000. He recounts how he took on the assignment to narrate the six decades that transformed Carolina into a modern research university.

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  Episode 93: Reconstruction at USC: Christian Anderson

  Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn

  The Reconstruction Era after America's Civil War brought about big changes as the former Confederate states were readmitted to the United States. Education professor and director of the Museum of Education Christian Anderson studies the history of higher education and is leading efforts to remember the changes that took place at USC 150 years ago during Reconsruction.

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  Episode 94: The colorful history of Gamecock sports: Alan Piercy

  Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn

  You can stay up to date on Gamecock sports through multiple news outlets and platforms, but to delve into the history of Gamecock sports, Alan Piercy is your guy. He writes a blog about Gamecock sports history and has written a book on USC sports during the independent era of 1971-91. He's also contemplating another book on the men's basketball program in the early Frank McGuire era and construction of the Carolina Coliseum in 1968. Join us for a conversation with Alan.

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  Episode 95: Monuments and Memorials: A conversation with Lydia Brandt

  Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn

  As an architectural historian, Lydia Brandt is trained to read the world around her, which at USC means understanding the context of the campus' buildings — why they were built in a certain style, why they were named for particular individuals and how the institution defines its identity through its physical space. Today's conversation with Dr. Brandt touches on those ideas and the university's recent efforts to tell a larger story of its past through figurative monuments.

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  Episode 96: A conversation with Tommy Suggs

  Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn

  He was a star quarterback for the Gamecocks more than 50 years ago, and for most of the years since then Tommy Suggs has been the color commentator for radio coverage of USC football games. He recently sat down with Remembering the Days co-hosts Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn to look back on his career and look ahead to the fall 2025 football season.

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  Episode 97: Fraternities, man chats and sex and fried chicken: A look back at the McBryde Quad

  Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn

  Built in the 1950s as USC's first fraternity dorms, the McBryde Quad saw its share of keg parties and frat boy shenanigans back in the day. McBryde's reputation for rowdiness eventually gave way to more serious conversations among its residents in later years. Now, as the last of McBryde's buildings are slated for replacement, it's an auspicious time to consider the long arc of McBryde's story.

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  Episode 98: Splash! The chlorine-soaked story of swimming and diving at USC

  Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn

  USC's swimming and diving team jumped into the deep end of competition in 1922, 17 years before the university even had a pool on campus. Over the years, the team has included a number of All Americans and Olympic competitors.

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  Episode 99: Creme de la Creme: Phi Beta Kappa at USC

  Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn

  More than 200 years ago, students at Carolina tried to start a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa — now the nation's most prestigious honor society — but their application was rejected by an Ivy League college. More than a century later, they tried again and succeeded, paving the way for high-achieving students to earn membership in one of academia's most exclusive clubs.

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  Episode 100: Sharing a Message of Hope: The Anne Frank Center at USC

  Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn

  In 2021, the University of South Carolina became home to the Anne Frank Center, the only such center in North America and one of only four in the world. Here is the story of how the center came to be at Carolina and the larger story of its message of hope and understanding.