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Jane K. & CDR James C. Farley Sr., CEC, USN Scholarship
Established in 2010 by Master Chief Jim Farley in honor of his parents.
Commander James C Farley was born in a lumber camp in Sweetens Cove, TN, and raised on several farms in middle Tennessee during the great depression, he understood the meaning of opportunity. Joining the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday he was planning on flight school. The Navy sent him to the University of South Carolina for OCS for a year and on to Notre Dame for six months before he received his commission as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. While at USC he asked his chemistry lab assistant for a date and she accepted. His beloved Jane Gaston Ketchen became his life mate. After WWII ended, they married on in 1946, and started a life of 68 years together that unfolded in many chapters all over the U.S. James returned to USC and completed his B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1948. He then began a career that was as varied as his family was large. He began working in Nashville, TN and was recalled for the Korean War effort and spent four more years on active duty in California and Virginia. The family returned to Columbia and he started a house building business and teaching engineering at USC. He continued building custom homes and later started teaching at Richland (now Midlands) Tech, eventually becoming Chair of the Engineering Division. He left Tech in 1974 to start a commercial construction business focused on design build of high school and college stadiums. His children and their children and their accomplishments were his own greatest accomplishment and the only thing he ever bragged about. There are over 100 – too many grandchildren and great-grandchildren to list. Jim passed away in 2014.
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