Cary High School - YRAC Yearbook (Cary, NC)

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FACULTY Miss Brinson Miss Cranford Mr. Blount Mr. Dry Page Ten Miss Pasmore Mr. Meekins Miss Baker

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You know the adage, “All work and no play.” C. II. S. does not believe in that, as the spirit of fellowship that thrives among the students will show. In a school like “Cary High” everybody knows everybody else, and there is not that feeling of being lost in a crowd that you find in the big schools. This knits the boys and girls more closely together, and there is a sense of co-operation in the way they unite to carry out a project. One of the dearest memories that each boy or girl has of his or her school career is the letters they receive from an “old student” the summer before they come to C. II. S. for the first time. Part of the homesickness was effaced when on arriving in Cary you were met by a group of the school boys and girls who were unfeignedly glad to see you and to help you over the difficulties of the first few days. The “new boys and girls” think that no one can get up such wonderful parties as the “old students.” And no one can until the new boys and girls become old students themselves. There does not seem to be such a word as “can’t” in the C. II. S. vocabulary when they are planning some form of entertainment, and nothing is too much trouble. Yet the simple little affairs are often the hap- piest, for how easy it is to get acquainted at cosy “get together” parties when everyone sits around the “Edison” and chats, while everyone who can does a stunt for the entertainment of the rest. In speaking of the classes doing their part, we come to the last of the four elements that go to make up the spirit of C. H. S., the spirit of Emulation. This spirit of merry rivalry shows that we do not want to have others do more for C. II. S. than we do. It is disclosed among the school societies when each one tries to outrival the others in having the greatest number present at the meetings, or in doing the most for our school. It is illustrated among the students in their studies, when each tries for a high grade or an honor. Among the classes the com- petition becomes very lively; for each class strives to make its program best. But it is in athletics that this spirit of Emulation becomes most market. The influence of an athletic girl is recognized as a balance that keeps the intellectual emphasis from swinging past the danger line. Athletics teaches a girl to work for her class first and herself afterwards, develops class loyalty, and through that, school loyalty. Life in C. II. S. is perhaps the most nearly ideal life on earth —scores of people living together in almost ideal community life, the best ones put forward for posi- tions of trust and honor; plenty of freedom, work and play. And yet, even in this Eden, there is sometimes a feeling of discord. There are elements that resist the even trend of student life, that criticize and complain, and cause an unrest among the whole—in short, that miss the happy thrill. But after all school is only an experience of school spirit. The student falls short, the school falls short, every- one falls short of perfection. Criticism, if honest, is healthy. It is only by con- structive criticism that we advance. It is not until the dignity of the senior year is reached and is nearing a close that we discover how great is our love for our dear old C. II. S. As the lint of boys and girls passes slowly in front of Mr. Dry, receiving a bit of parchment, it gradually steals over us. There is still the senior reception to look forward to, but we shed no tears, only gay speeches and little moments of silence when life and its meaning conn» rolling in on us, and a great wave seems carrying us forward out of the sheltered school that we love now with a kind of fierceness. This is the culmination of growth of the Spirit of C. II. S., that lias been with us all our student days. Now we go out to do our part, to carry the spirit of C. II. S. into the larger life. Do you not see that the initial letters of Loyalty, Industry, Fellow- ship and Emulation spell LIFE. The Spirit of C. II. S. is the life of C. II. S. and when C. II. S. has come to realize the ideal school spirit, then she will live in the truest and best sense. S. S. Page Nine

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FACULTY Miss Gaddy Mrs. Dry Miss Williams Miss Barnes Mr. Bramk Miss Edwards Mrs. Mkekins Mr. Cog iix Miss Respkss Page Eleven