In May 1975, Osceola Duboise Moore, whom we affectionally called, Coach O. D. Moore retired after more than 40 years as Athletic Director and coach of football and baseball at Nash County Training School (later Nash Central High School) in Nashville, North Carolina. His teams won many local and state championships, and many of his athletics won scholarships to play sports at colleges and universities in and out of state.
In September of 1975 community members, former athletics, and former students organized a celebration to celebrate and honor him for the impact he had made in the lives of former students and the Nashville community before he returned to his Cape May, New Jersey home.
Former students from across the nation returned home to attend the celebration for their beloved coach and teacher. At the celebration he was presented a generous monetary gift, but being the kind and giving person he was, he said “Give this to a deserving student to help them continue their education beyond high school”.
From this celebration, the Nash Central Senior High School Alumni Association was organized, and the first meeting was held in September 1976. Local chapters were organized across the United States. At the first Annual Meeting on Memorial Weekend in 1978, the Nash Central Senior High School Board of Directors in honor of Coach Moore organized the O. D. Moore Scholarship Foundation in honor of his memory. The mission was to provide scholarships to deserving students to continue their education beyond high school.
On December 12, 1978, the O. D. Moore Scholarship Foundation was formerly licensed as a 501 C-3 non-profit organization by the State of North Carolina. The NCSHAA is the governing body of the O. D. Moore Scholarship Foundation with the mission of:
- Encourage and direct its chapters to support the O. D. Moore Scholarship Foundation on an annual basis.
- Encourage and support the O. D. Moore Scholarship Foundation in the improvement and maintenance of the ODMSF-NCSHAA Building in Nashville, North Carolina.
But, time moves quickly, transforming us as we grow older. We lose loved ones; sickness and other life challenges occur in our lives, leading to a decline in membership. Due to some of these circumstances, we now have no active chapters representing us nationwide. While our structure has changed, our mission of support to the O. D. Moore Scholarship Foundation remains strong and unwavering.
To continue our commitment, we are asking for your support through donations to the O. D. Moore Scholarship Foundation and Nash Central Senior High School Alumni Association.
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Osceola Dubois Moore, a native of Cape May, New Jersey and a graduate of Shaw University, began his coaching career at Nash County Training School in 1938. He quickly established a reputation for well coached basketball and football teams.
Coach Moore’s teaching and coaching career was interrupted by World War II. He served in the Armed Forces from 1942 to 1945. He returned to Nash County at the war’s end and picked up where he left off. The year of 1949 would see him win his first state championship in football. That was the beginning of a run of excellence that has hardly been matched in the annals of North Carolina athletics.
In the School year of 1951 and 1952, the Falcons won state championships in football and basketball. That year, the football team was unbeaten with a tie being the only blemish on its record while the basketball team beat its opponents by an average of 20 points per game. Moore’s Falcons would duplicate the dual state championships in 1954-1955 with the football team going undefeated. The basketball capped a 25 and 3 season by defeating Burlington’s Jordan Sellars for the title.
Further evidence of Nash’s dominance is borne out by the fact that from 1938 until 1955, Moore’s football teams never lost more than two games in any one season. In addition, his basketball team would repeat as state champs in 1956. Over the years, Coach Moore added track and field to his coaching repertoire. He would produce several individual state champions in the sport as well as championship relay teams.
Coach O.D. Moore coached at NCTS and later known as Nash Central High until 1969, the last year of the school’s existence. He won an untold number of conference and district championships. To prove that the games had not passed him by, in 1968 the Falcons basketball team played in the state championship game and lost by one point and the Track team in 1969 lost the state championship title by one-half point.
We salute O.D. Moore and celebrate his legacy by providing college scholarships to Nash County’s young men and women.