Mary Kate Murphy, The Pilot
Students were in short supply at North Moore High on Wednesday, but excitement from the community leaders gathered that morning to celebrate the opening of a new auxiliary gymnasium and science wing was not.
That may be because some of them graduated from North Moore themselves at some point in the school’s 55-year history.
“This is a very exciting day in the history of North Moore High School,” said Lonnie English, the mayor of Robbins. “The new auxiliary gym and the state-of-the-art Charles R. Lambert Science Wing shows that we’re preparing our students today into the future.”
As a member of North Moore’s class of 1969, English was part of the first group of students to attend North Moore for all four years of high school. During Wednesday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony, he recalled that the consolidation of Elise, Highfalls and Westmoore students into one high school was a momentous event for the rural community.
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