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Dr Harlan Ewart McClure

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Dr Harlan Ewart McClure

Birth
Delaware County, Ohio, USA
Death
1 Nov 2001 (aged 85)
Clemson, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Burial
Pendleton, Anderson County, South Carolina, USA GPS-Latitude: 34.6511694, Longitude: -82.7764611
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His father Alexander Ewart McClure was born in Hoosick Falls, New York in 1885 and married Mary Jeanette Huffman, May 9, 1912, Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born in Muskingum County, Ohio.

Harlan married Virginia Withers Varney, Mar 13, 1943, Washington, D.C.

Obituary published in Greenville News:
"Dr. Harlan Ewart McClure, 85, died Nov. 1, 2001, at Clemson Downs Health Center. He was born Oct. 19, 1916, and was the son of the late Alexander Ewart McClure and Jeanette Huffman McClure. He was a native of Washington, D.C., and had lived in Clemson and Pendleton since 1955. Dr. McClure was a member of Clemson Rotary Club, Chairman of Pendleton Planning and Zoning Commission, and served on the S.C. Arts Commission, Winthrop College Board of Visitors and the Governor's Interagency Council on Arts and Humanities. He also served as a consultant to the City of Charlotte Community Development Department, the Charleston Museum Committee, the City of Greenville and the Town of Beaufort. He was Dean Emeritus of the College of Architecture at Clemson University.

Harlan McClure earned the Bachelor of Architecture degree from George Washington University in 1937, and then spent a year of graduate study at the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm before receiving the Master of Architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1941. He was awarded the honorary Doctor of Humanities degree by Clemson University in 1987.

He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, primarily as an operations officer on aircraft carriers, rising from Ensign to Lieutenant Commander. He studied Military Government at Princeton, Oriental Languages at Harvard and was construction manager for several Air Operational Training Centers while serving in the Navy. He then embarked upon a long and distinguished career of service as an architectural educator and practicing architect.

Dr. McClure began his teaching career at the University of Minnesota in 1945, and was named a full Professor in 1952. In that year he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for teaching and was a Visiting Professor at the Architectural Association School in London, England. In 1955 he was named Head of the Department of Architecture at Clemson University, which became the School of Architecture within three years. He founded the Clemson Architectural Foundation, which is considered by many to be the most successful support foundation in the country for the building professions, bringing to the campus distinguished architects, artists and thinkers from across the United States and abroad. He became the Dean when the Department was advanced to College status in 1958. In 1972 he established the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa, Italy, and thus allowed more than 800 Clemson students and many alumni to benefit from study abroad at the center. He was co-author of South Carolina Architecture 1670-1970 and editor of Clemson University College of Architecture Semester Review from 1968 to 1983. From 1981 to 1983 he served as Chairman of Clemson University Council of Deans and became Dean Emeritus of the College of Architecture in 1987.

Dean McClure's service to education did not stop with Clemson University. He served as Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education, authored Beginning Architectural Design and lectured at schools throughout the United States and in Scotland, England, Italy, France, and Germany. He served as national Secretary and then President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and as Secretary and President of the National Architectural Accrediting Board. As a member of the Accrediting Board he served on 37 accrediting teams, chairing seven, visiting and assessing universities across the United States. He also served as President of Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Fraternity for Architecture and the Allied Arts and belonged to nine national honor and scholarship societies. He was an educational consultant to the Ford Foundation, Roger Williams College and the Wisconsin Commission on Higher Education. In 1986 he was awarded the national ACSA Distinguished Professor Award, and was awarded the prestigious national Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education in 1994, given jointly by the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

Harlan McClure practiced as an architect throughout his academic career, serving as design architect for numerous private residences in Minnesota and South Carolina, including St. John's Lutheran Church, Cherryville, N.C., and Lee Hall at Clemson. He served as design consultant to several firms in South Carolina and was credited with design work that helped win 12 state and regional design awards. As a consultant to LBC&W in Columbia, he assisted in the design of five award-winning designs, including the U.S. Post Office, State Office Building, Forest Lake Country Club, a Habitation Center for Retarded Children and a dormitory at Columbia College. He was advanced to Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for education and design in 1962. He served as a member of the South Carolina Board of Architectural Examiners from 1955 to 1986, and was elected Vice Chairman and Chairman. In May 2001, he was awarded the state's highest honor for an individual architect, the South Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects "25-Year Award."

In the years after becoming Dean Emeritus at Clemson, Harlan McClure concentrated on a special love of art that had spanned his entire career, demonstrating again to his family and friends a special understanding of architecture and landscape. He produced hundreds of water color paintings, pencil sketches, and pen and ink drawings, many of which were exhibited, included in publications or sent to loved ones as a special Christmas card. In 1983 he was awarded South Carolina's highest honor from the Governor, The Order of the Palmetto, for distinguished services to the state, and in 1984 he was presented the Verner Award by the S.C. Fine Arts Commission for his contributions to the Arts in education in South Carolina.

Surviving are his wife, Susan Watson McClure, of Pendleton; son, Christopher McClure and wife Joyce Davis, of Raleigh, N.C.; son, Wesley McClure and wife Susan, of Raleigh, N.C.; daughter, Beth McClure and husband Rick Sigmon, of Columbia; stepdaughter, Melanie Lail and husband Don, of Charlotte, N.C.; brothers, John McClure of Silver Spring, Md., and Kenneth McClure of Charlottesville, Va.; four grandchildren; and three stepgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Virginia Varney McClure.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5, at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Clemson. Burial will follow at St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Pendleton. The family will receive friends immediately following a 7 p.m. prayer vigil at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Sunday, Nov. 4. Memorials may be made to Clemson University Architectural Foundation; or Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Building Fund. Serving as pallbearers are Gayl Witherspoon, John Acorn, Peter Lee, Jim Barker, Frank Lucas, Jim Thomas, Kirk Craig and Harvey Gantt. Serving as Honorary Pallbearers are Earl Gaulden, Ben Skardon, Morris Cox, Joe Young and Jim Neal. - Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home, Central-Clemson Commons."
His father Alexander Ewart McClure was born in Hoosick Falls, New York in 1885 and married Mary Jeanette Huffman, May 9, 1912, Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born in Muskingum County, Ohio.

Harlan married Virginia Withers Varney, Mar 13, 1943, Washington, D.C.

Obituary published in Greenville News:
"Dr. Harlan Ewart McClure, 85, died Nov. 1, 2001, at Clemson Downs Health Center. He was born Oct. 19, 1916, and was the son of the late Alexander Ewart McClure and Jeanette Huffman McClure. He was a native of Washington, D.C., and had lived in Clemson and Pendleton since 1955. Dr. McClure was a member of Clemson Rotary Club, Chairman of Pendleton Planning and Zoning Commission, and served on the S.C. Arts Commission, Winthrop College Board of Visitors and the Governor's Interagency Council on Arts and Humanities. He also served as a consultant to the City of Charlotte Community Development Department, the Charleston Museum Committee, the City of Greenville and the Town of Beaufort. He was Dean Emeritus of the College of Architecture at Clemson University.

Harlan McClure earned the Bachelor of Architecture degree from George Washington University in 1937, and then spent a year of graduate study at the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm before receiving the Master of Architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1941. He was awarded the honorary Doctor of Humanities degree by Clemson University in 1987.

He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, primarily as an operations officer on aircraft carriers, rising from Ensign to Lieutenant Commander. He studied Military Government at Princeton, Oriental Languages at Harvard and was construction manager for several Air Operational Training Centers while serving in the Navy. He then embarked upon a long and distinguished career of service as an architectural educator and practicing architect.

Dr. McClure began his teaching career at the University of Minnesota in 1945, and was named a full Professor in 1952. In that year he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for teaching and was a Visiting Professor at the Architectural Association School in London, England. In 1955 he was named Head of the Department of Architecture at Clemson University, which became the School of Architecture within three years. He founded the Clemson Architectural Foundation, which is considered by many to be the most successful support foundation in the country for the building professions, bringing to the campus distinguished architects, artists and thinkers from across the United States and abroad. He became the Dean when the Department was advanced to College status in 1958. In 1972 he established the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa, Italy, and thus allowed more than 800 Clemson students and many alumni to benefit from study abroad at the center. He was co-author of South Carolina Architecture 1670-1970 and editor of Clemson University College of Architecture Semester Review from 1968 to 1983. From 1981 to 1983 he served as Chairman of Clemson University Council of Deans and became Dean Emeritus of the College of Architecture in 1987.

Dean McClure's service to education did not stop with Clemson University. He served as Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education, authored Beginning Architectural Design and lectured at schools throughout the United States and in Scotland, England, Italy, France, and Germany. He served as national Secretary and then President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and as Secretary and President of the National Architectural Accrediting Board. As a member of the Accrediting Board he served on 37 accrediting teams, chairing seven, visiting and assessing universities across the United States. He also served as President of Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Fraternity for Architecture and the Allied Arts and belonged to nine national honor and scholarship societies. He was an educational consultant to the Ford Foundation, Roger Williams College and the Wisconsin Commission on Higher Education. In 1986 he was awarded the national ACSA Distinguished Professor Award, and was awarded the prestigious national Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education in 1994, given jointly by the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

Harlan McClure practiced as an architect throughout his academic career, serving as design architect for numerous private residences in Minnesota and South Carolina, including St. John's Lutheran Church, Cherryville, N.C., and Lee Hall at Clemson. He served as design consultant to several firms in South Carolina and was credited with design work that helped win 12 state and regional design awards. As a consultant to LBC&W in Columbia, he assisted in the design of five award-winning designs, including the U.S. Post Office, State Office Building, Forest Lake Country Club, a Habitation Center for Retarded Children and a dormitory at Columbia College. He was advanced to Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for education and design in 1962. He served as a member of the South Carolina Board of Architectural Examiners from 1955 to 1986, and was elected Vice Chairman and Chairman. In May 2001, he was awarded the state's highest honor for an individual architect, the South Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects "25-Year Award."

In the years after becoming Dean Emeritus at Clemson, Harlan McClure concentrated on a special love of art that had spanned his entire career, demonstrating again to his family and friends a special understanding of architecture and landscape. He produced hundreds of water color paintings, pencil sketches, and pen and ink drawings, many of which were exhibited, included in publications or sent to loved ones as a special Christmas card. In 1983 he was awarded South Carolina's highest honor from the Governor, The Order of the Palmetto, for distinguished services to the state, and in 1984 he was presented the Verner Award by the S.C. Fine Arts Commission for his contributions to the Arts in education in South Carolina.

Surviving are his wife, Susan Watson McClure, of Pendleton; son, Christopher McClure and wife Joyce Davis, of Raleigh, N.C.; son, Wesley McClure and wife Susan, of Raleigh, N.C.; daughter, Beth McClure and husband Rick Sigmon, of Columbia; stepdaughter, Melanie Lail and husband Don, of Charlotte, N.C.; brothers, John McClure of Silver Spring, Md., and Kenneth McClure of Charlottesville, Va.; four grandchildren; and three stepgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Virginia Varney McClure.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5, at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Clemson. Burial will follow at St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Pendleton. The family will receive friends immediately following a 7 p.m. prayer vigil at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Sunday, Nov. 4. Memorials may be made to Clemson University Architectural Foundation; or Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Building Fund. Serving as pallbearers are Gayl Witherspoon, John Acorn, Peter Lee, Jim Barker, Frank Lucas, Jim Thomas, Kirk Craig and Harvey Gantt. Serving as Honorary Pallbearers are Earl Gaulden, Ben Skardon, Morris Cox, Joe Young and Jim Neal. - Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home, Central-Clemson Commons."


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