page_title: Dreher High School
section_title: SCETV
hierarchical_section_title: Dreher High School / History / SCETV
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the first SCETV broadcast from Dreher High School in 1958
context_page_description: Dreher High School is a co-educational four-year public high school in Richland County School District One located in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. Dreher, established in 1938, is one of the oldest public high schools in the state. In 2009, Dreher was listed as the 702nd best school in the country by Newsweek in their annual best-high school rankings. In 2015, Dreher was ranked the 7th best high school in South Carolina by US News and World Report.
context_section_description: In 1958 South Carolina Educational Television (SCETV) began recording and airing productions in a studio at Dreher, through the efforts of R. Lynn Kalmbach.  Kalmbach's student assistants were Henry J. Cauthen and Thomas Stepp, with Cauthen becoming SCETV's first president. The SCETV call letters WRLK were named for Kalmbach, as well as Dreher's original gymnasium until renaming in 2002. In one of the first broadcasts, Dreher teacher, Lucille Turney-High taught French over closed-circuit television.
caption: R. Lynn Kalmbach (L) and Dewey Gentry (R), teachers at Dreher High School, working on the first SCETV broadcast in 1958 at Dreher
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