He became the first principal of Wardlaw Junior High in 1927 and remained until he was called to Dreher in 1938. McCormac was a teacher at Columbia High School from 1923 to 1927. He later served as principal at Tans Bay School and Mars Bluff School in Florence, S.C.
He began his education career as principal of Lake View School in Lake View, S.C., in 1919. He received a BA from USC in 1925 and an MA in 1930. Leon McCormac was born in 1900 in Dillon, S.C. He and five members of the faculty met during the summer of 1938 under the auspices of SACSS at Vanderbilt University to plan the organization of the school. Leon McCormac (BA, MA, USC) was appointed the first principal at an annual salary of $3,500. to be under the leadership and observation of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (SACSS) for seven years. Simmons, had an office on the first floor.ĭreher High School was chosen during its first year as one of three schools in S.C. A locker with lock was provided every student for 15¢ a year. The north wing contained the library (with 1,682 volumes) and gymnasium on the second floor and a lecture hall (212 seats and sound- proof walls) and shower rooms on the first floor. The fireproof building contained classrooms, laboratories, offices, conference rooms, cafeteria, supply room (where students could purchase notebooks, paper, and pencils), teachers’ workroom, music room (with sound- proof walls), and shops (woodworking, metal, and mechanical drawing). In her doctoral dissertation on secondary education in Columbia, Nancy Dunbar stated that plans for the building were drawn by student Eddie Rickenbacker who later became a WWII flying ace. The building was constructed for $239,306 by the Mechanics Contracting Company in 1938. Redfern disappeared attempting a non- stop flight to Brazil in 1927.
In the 1920s Paul Redfern operated Columbia’s first airport on the site. The land was a part of the original plantation owned by Gov. Dreher High School was built at 701 Adger Road in 1938 on a ten- acre lot purchased from Burrell D.
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