Question: Which North Carolina military academy did Wes Ferrell attend after high school?
Answer: Ferrell attended Oak Ridge Institute (now Oak Ridge Military Academy) after graduating from high school in 1926. The school was founded in 1852 as Oak Ridge Male Institute and was renamed Oak Ridge Institute two years later. Considered one of America’s oldest military boarding schools, it closed during the Civil War, later reopened as a coeducational school, adopted a military structure in 1917, became male-only in 1929, returned to coeducational status in 1971, and was renamed Oak Ridge Military Academy in 1981.
