History

Fall of 1918 - Wade Hampton Literary Society Formed (Male and Female Societies Existed Before)

1920 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society (Oratorical Trophy, State Declaimers)

1921 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society, Debating Team

1923 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society

1924 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society

1925 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society

1926 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society

1927 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society

1928 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society

1929 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society

1930 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society

1930 Sumter High Yearbook - Robert Y. Hayne Debating Club

1931 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society

1932 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society

1933 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society, Debating Team

1934 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society

1935 Sumter High Yearbook - Wade Hampton Literary Society

1936 Sumter High Yearbook - Debating Team (25)

1936 Sumter High Yearbook - Literary Society (21)

1937 Sumter High Yearbook - Declamation Contest

1938 Sumter High Yearbook - Debating Team

1939 Sumter High Yearbook - Debating Club (Boys and Girls School Combine to Form Edmunds High)

1940 - Forum?

1941 - Nothing

1942 - Nothing

1943 - Speech Club

1944 - Nothing

1945 - Nothing

1946 Edmunds High Yearbook - Public Speaking

1947 Edmunds High Yearbook - Debating Club

1948 Edmunds High Yearbook - Public Speaking

1949 Edmunds High Yearbook - Public Speaking

1950 Edmunds High Yearbook - Speech Club

1951 Edmunds High Yearbook - Public Speaking, Speakers in the American Legion Oratorical Contest

1952 Edmunds High Yearbook - Speech Club, Debating Team

1953 Edmunds High Yearbook - Speech Club

1954 Edmunds High Yearbook - National Forensic League

1955 Edmunds High Yearbook - NFL, Speech Club

1956 Edmunds High Yearbook - NFL, Speech Club

1957 Edmunds High Yearbook - NFL

1958 Edmunds High Yearbook - NFL Program Trains in Public Speaking

1959 Edmunds High Yearbook - Forensic Activities Attract Students to Speech Club

1960 Edmunds High Yearbook - NFL, Speech Club

1961 Edmunds High Yearbook - Nothing

1962 Edmunds High Yearbook - Student Debaters Form New Club

1963 Edmunds High Yearbook - Debate Club Develops Oratorical Skills

1964 Edmunds High Yearbook - Debate Club, Leader Corps Give Training

1965 Edmunds High Yearbook - Debaters Argue Current Topics

1966 Edmunds High Yearbook - Debaters Defend Edmunds

1967 Edmunds High Yearbook - Debaters Learn Through Research, Discussion

1968 Edmunds High Yearbook - Debate Club

1969 Edmunds High Yearbook - Philosophical Intellectual Club

1970 Edmunds High Yearbook - Philosophical Intellectual Club (Edmunds High Merges with Lincoln High)

1971 Sumter High Yearbook - Philosophy Club Members Search for Truth

1971 Sumter High Yearbook - Political Science Institute

1972 Sumter High Yearbook - Philosophy Club

1973 Sumter High Yearbook - Religious Concepts Intrigue Bible and Philosophy Clubbers

1973 Sumter High Yearbook - Political Systems Club

1974 Sumter High Yearbook - Philosophy Club

1975 Sumter High Yearbook - Philosophy Club

1976 Sumter High Yearbook - Emmanuel Obscuro Society

1977 - Nothing

1978 - Nothing

1993 Sumter High Yearbook - Speech Club

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