East Clarendon Middle-High School is a combined public school located in the town of Turbeville, South Carolina. It is a branch of the Clarendon County School District Four.
History
Before 1948, there were three schools located on the eastern side of Clarendon County: Gable High School (Gable, South Carolina)https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1265/images/sid_29321521516_1942_0001?usePUB=true&_phsrc=etX501, Salem High School (New Zion, South Carolina)https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1265/images/sid_37106_1940_0001?usePUB=true&_phsrc=etX501, and Turbeville High School (Turbeville, South Carolina). In 1949, Gable and Salem were consolidated to create Black River High School.https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1265/images/sid_29321521517_1951_0005?usePUB=true&_phsrc=etX501 Then in 1952, Black River and Turbeville were consolidated to create what is known today as East Clarendon High School.https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1265/images/1265_b987938-00058?usePUB=true&_phsrc=etX501 The school made its inaugural start on Thursday, September 11 of that same year at what was the former Turbeville High School building, which was built in 1938.https://www.newspapers.com/image/668986320/
In the summer of 1970, the South Carolina Department of Education declared mandatory action for the school to integrate with Walker-Gamble High School, then an all-black high school located in New Zion, South Carolina, following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
In 1997, a US$5.2 million referendum was passed, allowing then-Clarendon County School District Three to demolish the former building in order to reconstruct a new building for East Clarendon Middle School. The former building was deemed energy-deficient and too expensive to continue maintaining.
The majority of its current establishment was opened on August 14, 2000, the start of its 2000-2001 school year. The media center was completed in January 2001. A new extension was also added to the high school, which was completed the following month.
Organizations The school has chapters that are affiliates of the following organizations: the National Beta Club, the National FFA Organization and the Science Olympiad.
Their former affiliations include the 4-H, the Future Homemakers of America and the Quill and Scroll.
Sports
The school offers the following sports: Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Softball, Tennis, Track and Volleyball.
The Shad Hall Memorial Stadium hosts two of the school's sports: as a football stadium during the first semester and as a baseball stadium during the second semester. It is posthumously-named after one of the school's former principals and athletic coaches: Herman Eugene "Shad" Hall, who prior to his sudden death in a two-vehicle automobile accident in 1966https://www.newspapers.com/image/749749469/, led the school's varsity baseball team to three state championship titles (1958, 1959 and 1960)https://www.newspapers.com/image/983806860/ and the school's varsity football team to two Class "B" state championship titles (1961 and 1965).https://www.newspapers.com/image/983839251/
There has only been one jersey number that the school retired:
Number 10 - Talaysia Cooper (Class of 2022; Girls' Basketball; 2017-2022)https://theitem.com/stories/giving-her-her-flowers-while-she-can-still-smell-them-cooper-scores-3000th-point-as-east,377509
Number 20 - Jimmy Fleming (Class of 1985; Football; 1981-1984)https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1265/images/1265_b982812-00039?usePUB=true&_phsrc=dCk371&pId=1496646640https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1265/images/1265_b985998-00138?usePUB=true&_phsrc=dCk371&pId=1496646640
Notable alumni Talaysia Cooper (Class of 2022), basketball player Nathaniel Rowland (Class of 2012), murderer of Samantha Josephson
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