A.C. Flora First Five Years
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A.C. Flora High School     Columbia, SC

Alumni Organization

Friends, Fellowship, Fun, and Future Flights!!   FLORA'S 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION WAS JUST A NEW BEGINNING!!!  Mark your calendars now for YOUR class' next reunion...2010, 2011, 2012, 2014...

OUR GOAL:   50 by 50!

Flora Grad Challenges Our Giving $ for $
AND...
WE HAVE ACHIEVED THAT GOAL!
$50,000 by Flora's 50th Anniversary
WE DID IT! Way to go, Falcons!
OUR NEW GOAL:   higher, higher....!

Cynthia Edwards  McCrary Scholarship Fund has been established

Scroll down for information on the 2010 awards

 

Class Lists

1962

1963196419651966

 

    

1967

19681969 FACULTY

 

    

Please review the A.C. Flora High School class year lists for accuracy.  For all changes, please click on 'Submit Change' or the yellow tag next to the person's name, fill out  form, and submit.

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FOUNDATION HISTORY AND AGREEMENT
50 X 50 AND THOSE WHO MAKE IT HAPPEN
SCHOLARSHIP DONATION FORM
  

Amakia Gibson '10 ... Claflin University... AC FLORA FIRST FIVE YEARS Award

Kelly Hinson '10 ... Lander University... Mozelle Shipp Award... given in honor of Mozelle Shipp, the long time Director of Mays Park.

Jared Rapoport '10 ...  USC ... Cynthia Edwards McCrary Award... given in memory of Cynthia Edwards McCrary,  a 1969 alumnae of AC Flora and dedicated teacher.

Sophia Kawaguchi '10 ...  USC Upstate ... Thomas Stokes Award... given in memory of Tom Stokes who was a chemistry teacher and School C Head Teacher at A.C. Flora.

Nora Kawaguchi '10 ... Soka University of America ... Camp Debbie Lou Award, given in honor of Camp Debbie Lou, a camp for families with children who have cancer.

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PAST RECIPIENTS

A.C. Flora First Five Years Award

Hayley Jean Elia '09... University of South Carolina

Arielle Whitney Rapoport '08 ... Clemson University

 Riley Saggittarius Wilson '07 ... Howard University

 Spencer Lee Harris '06 began his essay with, "Thank you for offering to help students with the cost of college."  Spencer worked  full-time during his summers with  Palmetto Automatic Sprinkler Company as well as  part time setting up and cleaning up for his church.  He was a three-year varsity letterman in baseball and clearly earned the respect and support of his teachers.  Spencer states that baseball will now be strictly intramural as he pursues his goal of graduating from the Moore School of Business.  A teacher wrote that Spencer "is a good investment of the Foundation's generosity."  We look forward to hearing more from Spencer after he gets settled at USC.
 

Mozelle Shipp Award

 William Alexander Kennedy '09 ... Presbyterian College

 Alexis Cherelle Felder '08 ... Francis Marion University

 Philip Garland Matthews II '07 ... Appalachian State University

 Cordes Baxter Kennedy '06 is the first recipient of the Mozelle Shipp Award.  Cordes states that as a young child, his mother took him to Mays Park often.  His Eagle Scout project was planning, organizing and directing the landscaping additions and renovations to Idalia Park in Forest Acres. An active member of the youth group at Eastminster Presbyterian Church he has participated in mission trips to Kentucy, West Virginia, Costa Rico and Florida. His brother will begin at Flora this year after Cordes leaves for  Clemson.

 

Special Honorariums '06 for Outstanding Achievement

Melissa Saylor Murphy '06 has an outstanding resume of school and community activities: National Honor Society, Student Government, Varsity Tennis and Cross-Country teams for the past four years, Heartworks (an inner-city ministry), church mission trips. During her senior year, Melisa was the Host of Extra Credit a Richland One TV show.  Melissa will be attending Furman University.

John Leslie Hobbs '06 worked at Zestos throughout high school, played on the Varsity Tennis team all four years, was active in his church as alter boy and member of the basketball team, and received his Eagle Scout award, while pursuing a rigorous curriculum in the International Baccalaureate program. In his essay John writes of his grandfather who "came from Greece without knowing a word of English while the Germans were coming into his country." John can be sure that his grandfather would be proud to know John is graduating with a class rank of 7 of 212. John will be entering Clemson University.

Donovan Grady Wade '06 pursued the most rigorous academic program at  Flora and received the International Baccalaureate Diploma.  In addition to taking a difficult academic course load, he was active in sports, extra-curricular school activities and service projects for his school, church and community.  Donovan received the Eagle Scout award for his project at the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Center, building book shelves, painting, and holding a book drive that brought in over 1000 books for the center.  At Camp Joy, Donovan was a counselor for mentally handicapped people. Donovan will enter the University of South Carolina Honor's College this year.

 

For a Post-Reunion Message from the October 2005  Reunion click here.

For a look at some of your classmates click here.

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