barryc@barryclemson.net 757-692-6673
Work Experience:
- Technician in custom manufacturing: 4 years, half time during college
- Community Development (Mississippi, Chicago, India): 4 years
- Software development (automating software development and developing large software. programs for the federal government): 6 years
- University teaching & research (organization theory & systems science / cybernetics): 18 years
- Entrepreneur and carpenter (residential construction): 10 years
- Novelist and essayist: since retirement in 2007
- Working to heal the Earth’s life support system: since 2010
Education:
- BA in Science, MA in Political Science, PhD in Organization theory, all from Pennsylvania State University
Places That Shaped Me
- Moose Pass Alaska, Walamo Mexico, Mumbai India, Biloxi Mississippi
Community Service
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (Mississippi Freedom Summer, from June 1964 and continuing until April, 1965). Full-time work.
- Fellow, Ecumenical Institute: 1969-1972. Full time work
- President, American Society for Cybernetics: 1978-1979
- Board Member, Juneteenth: 1999-2001 and occasionally play the part of John Brown in the play ‘Abolitionist Museum”
- Akido Instructor, Youngs Terrace Housing Project, Virginia Dai Nippon Butoku-Kai: 1998-1999
- Administrator, Triumph Community Church: 1977-present
- Vice President, Sunrise Community Development Center: 1997-present
- Chairman of Trustees, Clemson Land Trust: 2010 – present
- President, Earth Viability Center, 2020 – present
Key Publications
- Denmark Rising. (Cybernetica Press, 2009) A novel of Denmark using strategic nonviolence against Hitler’s attempt to get them to support his war efforts. Walter Wink, a leading authority on nonviolence said “Denmark Rising is the most important boon on nonviolence ever written”.
- Cybernetics (Abacus Press, 1984). Commissioned as an introduction to the management cybernetics of Stafford Beer. Includes 22 laws and principles of complex systems.
- See Academia.edu for some of my technical papers. My essays are in the blogs of Virtual Community Centers hosted by www.place4s.net.
Websites
- Personal site: www.barryclemson.net
- Work site: www.earthviability.org and www.Place4Us.net
Family:
- Married to Rev. Dr. Mary L. Clemson
- Six children, nine grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren
Favorite Quotes:
- “The entire cosmos waits to see what vision we commit to.” — Mathew Fox —
- “Its not how much you do, its how much love you put into it … Do small things with great love.” — Mother Teresa –
- “It’s impossible – until it is not” – Carrie Newcomer song