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From the Foothills to Japan: The Life, Love, and Service of Marion Moorhead and Thelma Chandler
Marion Moorhead and Thelma Chandler spent a lifetime together, but their early lives could not have been more different. Marion Frances Moorhead was born on April 23, 1917, in Easley, South Carolina, to parents Walter Lewis Moorhead and Mary Sue Floyd Moorhead. He was the youngest of ten children, but three of his siblings died… Read more
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From Campus Courtship to Enduring Legacy: Vannie and Mays Barnett
Love stories have been part of North Greenville’s history since its earliest days, when the school was still a small Baptist high school tucked into the foothills of South Carolina. Students met, courted, and sometimes pledged their futures beneath the campus trees or on the wooden swings scattered across the grounds. Among the first of… Read more
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Thomas Lawton Neely: North Greenville’s Second President
Thomas “Tom” Lawton Neely was born on September 11, 1915, in Greenville, South Carolina, to parents Kreswell Edward Neely and Mamie Willingham Lawton Neely. His father was a businessman who ran Neely Lumber Company in Greenville before relocating the business to Spartanburg when Tom was eight years old. Tom was the oldest of nine children… Read more
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