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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). During John’s infancy, the family… Read more
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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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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 be given reduced or free… Read more
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Leslie Augustus Jones: North Greenville’s Sixth Principal
Leslie Augustus Jones was born on July 21, 1879, in Orangeburg County, South Carolina to parents James Alfred Jones and Cornelia Wannamaker Jones. Leslie was the oldest of about six children and his father was a farmer and a postmaster. The family moved to Salley, SC when Leslie was a kid and he attended the… Read more
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