Clinton L. "Clint" Mullins

MR. CLINTON "CLINT" L. MULLINS, of Columbia, South Carolina, aged 62 years, died peacefully in the company of dear friends on January 16, 2025, in a small town within the borders of the Swiss Confederation. His final journey marked his second trip to Switzerland, having traveled only once before briefly to Geneva on a business trip in the mid-1980s.
Born April 18, 1962, he was the son of the late Ernest and Patsy Mullins of State Line Ridge (Bradshaw Mountain), West Virginia / Grundy, Virginia. He was an only child and is survived and loved by people whom he described as unquestionably the most extraordinary friends anyone could ever have hoped to have in life.
Clint was a graduate of Marshall University (B.A., French Language and Literature) and the University of South Carolina (M.Ed., Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology). He was bilingual French / English, spoke fluent Spanish, and spent his professional career engaged across the fields of technical translation, public education, and information technology. Clint loved traveling and he loved food. He was fond of jokingly noting that he was indeed both gourmet and gourmand. He also loved visiting and living in France and spent several summers in the Alps, Grenoble, and Yssingeaux (Haute Loire) as well as a year in Paris teaching English to French high school students on a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship.
Because of serious health issues, Clint retired in 2013 from the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education where he was an Academic Affairs Program Manager. The academic and professional accomplishments he was most proud of included serving as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant with the French Ministry of National Education in Paris, France; as Chief Information Officer and Special Assistant for Technology Planning and Policy Development at the South Carolina Department of Education; and his work facilitating several important statewide academic projects at the Commission on Higher Education. Clint loved people, languages, German cars, traveling, learning, music, cinema, gardening, entertaining, and designing visually pleasing and comfortable spaces in which to live, both indoors and out. And he so very much loved Yeda, his beloved Standard Schnauzer and most faithful and devoted companion.
As part of his continuing travels after his return to stardust, Clint's ashes were sent home to the United States in care of a dear and cherished lifelong friend who distributed them to other closest friends; over time, they will have scattered him in various places throughout the world where they believe he might like to repose.
Clint was a Son of Marshall, and his legacy will be an endowment at Marshall University to support students to pursue enriching and potentially life-changing study-abroad experiences. This endowment will be established and facilitated by Clint's dear friend and fellow Marshall alum, Dr. Montserrat Miller, Executive Director, The John Deaver Drinko Academy at Marshall University. University (https://www.marshall.edu/drinko/).
It is in Clint's memory and that of his parents that we invite you to contribute to his endowment. Contributions may be made by mailing a check to the Marshall University Foundation, at 519 John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV 25703 with "The Clinton Mullins Memorial Scholarship Fund" in the memo line or by using the following link: https://give.marshall.edu/project/26398