Category: Alumni
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Nettie Onell Burnette: North Greenville’s First College Graduate
The following biography of Nettie Onell Burnette was written for the NGU Archives by her great-niece, Dr. Jenny Hunter. The pictures included in this post are also courtesy of Dr. Hunter and Carolyn Mason. Through a life rooted in faith and service, Nettie Onell Burnette showed that one person’s quiet…
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The First Valedictorian of North Greenville Junior College: John Daniel Carter, Jr.
John Daniel Carter, Jr. was born on January 18, 1917, in Columbia, South Carolina, to John David Carter, Sr., and Estelle Powell Tison Carter. His father worked in sales and insurance, while his mother was an educator and a 1908 graduate of Greenville Women’s College (now part of Furman University).…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Vetville
North Greenville has a long history of helping students receive an education who normally would not have had the opportunity for one. In fact, North Greenville was founded as a high school in 1892 because there were no high schools in the upper part of Greenville County. Later, students would…
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A Century of Service: North Greenville Alumna Nan Burns Williams
“North Greenville shaped my life and it caused me to stay on the path of education. It made me because I was just a little country girl, but I wanted an education. North Greenville was so good to me. I loved it there and I remember so much about it.…
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The NGU Alma Mater: A History
The first known alma mater for North Greenville was “The Old Mountain School,” which first appeared in The Moonshiner yearbook of 1925. The Old Mountain School lyrics were written by H.C. Hester, the 9th principal of the school, and they were sung to the tune of “The Old Rugged Cross.”…
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From the John T. Wood House to the Barbara McCormick House: A History of one of Tigerville’s Oldest Homes
The Wood family were some of the early settlers in Tigerville. Sometime before the Civil War, Dr. Thomas Earle Wood moved to Tigerville and purchased a home. His house was located on the property that is now Grazer’s Store at Famoda Farms on Highway 253. Dr. Wood left Tigerville to…
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Women’s History at North Greenville
Women have played a vital role in North Greenville’s history since the very beginning. North Greenville was founded as a co-ed institution in 1892 and has remained one throughout its existence. Women have also served in roles such as faculty, dorm mothers, dieticians, and nurses but it has not always…
From These Roots 