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G.B. Hodge, who helped found what is now USC Upstate, has chronicled the history of the campus and its leadership in his memoir, Reflections on Building an Institution: The University of South Carolina-Spartanburg.
"The campus has provided for many students who would not have had the opportunity to get an education, and I think it's a fine institution," Hodge said.
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A Spartanburg native and retired surgeon, Hodge helped establish the campus in 1967, when Spartanburg needed a nursing program to train students to work in a hospital setting. He and other leaders in the community believed if a two-year campus was established, the health-care industry would continue to thrive and more students would enroll.
Reflections on Building an Institution is available at the USC Upstate bookstore for $32. Proceeds go to a scholarship named in honor of Hodge through the Carolina Piedmont Foundation.
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