41+ Pat Conroy Citadel Background. The citadel honored famed late author and alumnus, pat conroy, on saturday night, feb 3., 2018, by hanging his basketball jersey from the rafters in the. His books the water is wide, the lords of discipline, the prince of tides and the great santini were made into films, the latter two being oscar nominated.

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@tbauthor and citadel alumnus pat conroy, class of 1967, delivered this eulogy at lt. See more ideas about pat conroy, pat conroy quotes, the prince of tides. Both books were made into outstanding motion pictures.

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His father pressured him to accept a scholarship to the citadel, where he earned a bachelor's degree in english in 1967. Pat conroy, born on october 26, 1945 in atlanta, was the first of seven children of a young marine officer from chicago and a southern beauty from the conroys moved frequently to military bases throughout the south, and conroy eventually attended the citadel, a military college in charleston. He represented the division of charlton until its abolition in 2016. The son of a marine corps pilot and a graduate of the citadel, much of conroy's fiction is based on autobiographical experiences of childhood abuse and military school.