Singing on the high seas
Margaret Lynn Scoggins ’89
Fall 2007
When secondary education-English graduate Margaret Lynn Scoggins of Rock Hill was a Clemson student, she sang with the Clemson University Chorus and the CU After 6 Singers. Little did she know that experience would help send her to sea.
Scoggins, who taught several years in York, was cast in a Carowinds show during summer break. Loving the experience, she soon put her teaching career on hold and pursued more singing engagements. She attended a Southeastern Theatre Conference in Savannah and was hired by a production company that provided entertainment for cruise ships.
Her first contract took her to the Caribbean, her next to Europe. She’s now been in the cruise industry for 13 years and has seen the world. She often meets people from Clemson, most recently professor emeritus Joe Arbena and his wife, Consuelo.
“I travel an average of nine months out of the year,” says Scoggins, “but I take Clemson with me everywhere I go.”