L. Marion & Florence H. Gressette Scholarship Fund

This scholarship was created in December 1985 to honor the former Senator L. Marion Gressette and Florence H. Gressette, parents of Lawrence M. Gressette, Jr. While serving in the South Carolina State Senate in the 1950s and 1960s, Mr. Gressette worked against school desegregation, but in later years he fought to keep Clemson College open when ordered to admit its first black student, worked on passage of a bill marking the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a state holiday, and authored a plan to desegregate the state’s colleges and universities.