Cary High School - YRAC Yearbook (Cary, NC)

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career as “freshies.” Not only lias our class accomplished much, hut our school has steadily come up to the top. We have a splendid athletic standard, a code of honor and self-government on a larger and more successful scale. Three of our boys won honors for us at Chicago at the International Live Stock Show, and we’re proud of them. Another epidemic of “flu” darkened our later months of school life, hut, thanks to Miss Killingsworth and Nina Harlsfield, a member of our class, the many patients in the dormitories received all the care and attention that could he desired. A committee was also sent from the class to do relief work in and around the town. So all went well. As great things have happened in the past for the Cary High School, we are hoping for just one more this year while we are still students. We hope the debaters from C. II. S. in the coming triangular debate will win the trip to Chapel Hill for the final contest, but most of all do we hope that it will be won by members of the Class of Nineteen-twenty, that we may leave to the school something that we and the school may long remember and be proud of. And. facing this the untried juture. We will seek where duty lies. Rejoicing that the bow of promise Arches for us the morning skies. Rage Twenty The “Fi.i Fighters

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The History of the Class of ’Twenty History lias played an important part in the uplift of the world. As the history of the world during the four long years of the World War is interesting to that same world, so is the history of the Class of Nineteen-twenty, covering our four years of high school life, interesting to us as a class and as individuals. September, nineteen-sixteen, was a memorable date in the career of the Class of Twenty, for it was then that we emerged from the elementary school and entered into a higher and more difficult sphere. We came to C. II. S. feeling ourselves as import- ant as any one of the classes; but we were soon to change our minds, for everywhere we could hear that direful refrain, “0, you bald-faced Freshmen, you had better lie low!” so popular among the Sophomores at that time. Hut after several days of this there never was a more humble or meek-looking class than ours; although we were exceedingly proud to be allowed to sit in the study hall without a teacher. By the opening of the spring term we had become pretty well “salted down,” and we began to realize that there was hard work in store for us if we wished to succeed the Sophs next year. September, nineteen-seventeen, found us back at C. H. S. and ready to do our duty as Sophomores. There was quite a number of new members, minus a lot of old ones, but we went to work with a vim. This time Professor Dry tried a new plan for the study hall by instituting self-government. For some reason it did not work very well, and the girls were taken back into Miss Killingsworth's room to study. Our Sophomore year was proving to be so different from what we expected, the work was so hard, and no one paid half the attention to us we imagined they would. But well do we remember those field trips we used to take on Botany, and how we did cal apples and dig peanuts while pretending to be hunting bugs on Zoology! But soon those good times were to cease, for an epidemic of measles was approaching. We remem- ber with horror its visit to our class. Then came County Commencement and daily drills and lectures by Miss Killingsworth on how to have a neat appearance in the parade. The day came and our hearts sank as it approached, for it was raining and there would be no commencement. Very soon after this our most pleasant and event- ful term came to a close. Vacation being ended, we started our Junior year with a rush, for the end of the way was approaching. But, alas! the “flu” broke out and the dreadful days that followed brought daily “flu” lectures from Professor Dry on the importance of keep- ing away from Raleigh. Later, school was entirely suspended, and while the school was taking a vacation, two great events look place in the history of our class and Nation; namely, the burning of the boys’ dormitory, which caused us sorrow; but of greater importance still to us, as well as to our entire Nation, was the signing of the armistice, which brought much happiness and great rejoicing into the hearts of so many. As we bade farewell to the Class of ’Nineteen, we felt then that the responsi- bility of the Class of Twenty really was ours. It is September again, nineteen-nineteen. At last we are Seniors, and many things have happened since the eventful year nineteen-sixteen, when we started our Page Nineteen

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