Under the leadership of fourth-year architecture student Karl Barnett and an acting council of eight Clemson students, a group of approximately 50 students form a Campus Chapter in partnership with Pickens County Habitat. The group begins to volunteer regularly with the affiliate and makes a goal to raise $25,000 to build a Habitat home under the advisement of sociology professor Dr. William Wentworth. Plans for the now 28-year-old Homecoming Build tradition would soon begin in 1994 after the Campus Chapter participated in the building of a “cardboard city” on campus. The experience showed the students the plight of homelessness and motivated them to do more.
