WADE HAMPTON ACADEMY YEARBOOKS

History

Wade Hampton Academy, led by local chemical manufacturer T. Elliott Wannamaker,  founded in the fall of 1964 at the moment public schools in Orangeburg were to desegregate. Wade Hampton Academy enrolled nearly 300 sturents at its launch om August 1964.   Wade Hampton Academy issued its first graduates a lapel pin featuring the Confederate flag and the word "Survivor," a pin modeled on those worn by Confederate veterans after the Civil War. In 1970, Wannamaker also led in the establishment of Orangeburg’s second independent school, Willington Academy.  In 1984,  the boards of directors of both schools to announce they would merge to form Orangeburg Preparatory Schools.

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Wade Hampton Academy 1976 Volume XII Wade Hampton Academy 1976
Wade Hampton Academy 1977 Volume XIII

Wade Hampton Academy 1977

Wade Hampton Academy 1978 Volume XIV

Wade Hampton Academy 1978

Wade Hampton Academy 1979 Volume XV Wade Hampton Academy 1979
Wade Hampton Academy 1980 Volume XVI

Wade Hampton Academy 1980

Wade Hampton Academy 1981 Volume XVII Wade Hampton Academy 1981
     

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