Cary High School - YRAC Yearbook (Cary, NC)

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Last Will and Testament Earth United States State of North Carolina County ok Wake City of Cary Cary Hion ScnooL TITE the Senior Class of Cary High School being ini undisputed possession of intellect and sound character, realizing our deficiencies, but fully aware of the superb relief from excessive brain work and conscious of the uncertainty of future careers, upon leaving this realm of activity do make and declare this our last will and testament. Article I To Mr. Dry, who has untiringly guided us in the paths of knowledge, we give our highest veneration and esteem. Article II To Mr. Smith, we will our good will and a successful future. Article III To Mr. Raper. we the Class of ’29 give our appreciation and thanks for his efforts in helping us publish this volume of the Ciisite. Article IV To our Fathers and Mothers: We will our deepest love and appreciation for their untiring efforts which have made it possible for us to attend such a fine institution. Article V To the various Classes: To the Juniors we will our Senior privileges as they may be. Also we will our pleasures, intellectual as well as social, and the exclusive right of publishing the next Ciisite. To the Sophomores: The privilege of throwing away their Freshman books. To the Freshmen: Our dignity and sophistication, that they may carry it with them through their high school career. Article VI To the Faculty: To Miss Davis: An English IV Class that will not count the times that she says all right. To Mr. Green: Some more new plans.” To Miss Huffines: A Home Economics class that can wash dishes, and scrub floors, and a study hall that will obey the rules. To Mr. Lecka: A Physics class that will not leave when he goes to the Postoffice. To Miss Sears: A vacant period next year, also an electric whipping machine to use on the Freshmen. To Miss King: A new Chemistry Laboratory. To Miss Beddingfield: A plenty of material for a girls’ basketball team next year. To Mrs! Dry: The Senior Class of ’29 wills a long life filled with happiness. To Mr. Meekins: A group of ambitious “Aggie” boys. To Miss Gray and Miss Parker: A large music department n,ext year. Article VII 1. Clyde Early wills her baby ways and cute giggle to Kuneith Carlton. 5. Azzie Lowe wills her cuteness to Ruth Nowell. Twenty-six

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Class Prophecy FIFTEEN years ago, today, I bade my schoolmates of 1928-29 au re voir. Today, Friday the 26. 1944. one of the most remarkable coincidences of history occurred. The whirring of a motor and an upward glance told me that Col. Campbell wax arriving with the evening mail. Can you imagine my surprise when I received a letter from each of the 31 classmates of dear old Cary High ? If you won’t tell anybody that I told you I'll give you a brief record of the progress of each in their chosen profession. Azzie Lowe, in her letter, asked me if I remembered the days when we both planned to be stenographers. (I had forgotten but I didn’t tell her so.) Well, she has reached the heights of her ambition, as sin- is now the private secretary of President Nipper. Who would have thought that the happy go lucky Fred of our class would ever become the president of our nation? That is just what's happened. Martha? Oh, yes, she told me that she was giving one of her favorite readings before the King and Queen of England this coming Monday, but she doesn't know that I've hoard of the famous Martha Castlebury, for who hasn't heard of the elocutionist who can make thousands of people laugh or cry, as she so desires. Hy the way, do you remember Margaret Curtis? You know that she was always interested in gymnastics. Well, she told me in her rather short note, that she had just refused two otters to teach in two of the most renowned colleges of the U. S. to take charge of the Physical Education of Duke University. The reason she gave was that she wanted to be near her sister-in-law. formerly Ruth Cathey. Ruth told me that she was very happy because she is to go to New York to interview Madame Schumann-Heink who seems to be very much attached to her. She says that there is great promise in Ruth's voice. It seems as if she heard Ruth broadcast over W. P. T. F., Raleigh. N. C. and at once looked her up. In the long letter from Estelle Doyle, imagine what she told me. The picture for which she loaned her Madonna-like beauty has won great fame and the painter, who should it be but Jack Burrussl Of course, we knew something like that would happen but really he has risen higher than we thought ho would. If we could live a hundred years I'm sure he would Ik- classed with Raphael. Jack told me that he was rather proud of his success as he is only thirty-three and that he hoped to do even better in the years to come. Ah I I am disappointed in Mirrion Powers. We had so hoped that she would win some Olympic laurels for us. but she deserted the thing she was most interested in during her high school days and has become famous as a pianist. We knew that she was talented in music but we didn't think that sho would ever devote her life to a musical career. She has made good though, and we are proud of her. Kathleen Hollcman and Lois Copeland are featured in a Keith's Vaudeville act and I hope to see them when they come to Raleigh during the coming season. Dora Hardy writes that she and Lucille Doyle are going to come to Cary with the Chautauqua and that they arc very happy in their work. Lucille is studying commercial art. Mildred Hardy! I wonder if I dare tell you. She will probably be mad but I promised you I would tell you about all of my class- mates, so here goes! Mildred has married and been divorced twice. Think of it. our quiet little Mildred turning into a heart-breaker. Oh! Well. We knew that this world was funny and Mildred was Funny that way.” I know you are wondering what Sarah Yarborough did with her culinary accomplishments. She is now dietitian of a college for women in New York. At last Woodrow Sears has reached the time when he does not have to work. His great uncle died, leaving to Woodrow a fortune. Durwood Truitt told me that he was a successful business man of Chicago, 111., and he has advertised for a wife but in every case they have disagreed to such an extent that they decided they could not sail the sea of Matrimony together. Our classmate. Radford Bailey, has made quite a success at farming. He owns one of the largest truck farms in Florida and is perfectly contented. Gladys Copeland, dear old quiet Gladys, is superintendent of a school in Virginia and is dearly beloved by her pupils. Robert Pleasants and Billie Creel are rivals. Robert is the baseball coach at Duke University and Billie is the Coach at Carolina. A big game is coming off soon and I wonder which team will win. Dear people I'm sure you recall the tall, dependable boy of Cary who is now known as the second “Lindy.” This aviator is no other than Raymond Campbell. He flirts with death high up in the clouds and he told me that he often thought of his fellow classmates and wondered what they would say if they could see him now. Really, he is very different from the boy, we knew back at Cary. Ada Hockaday is now teaching dancing at Greensboro College for Women and if the reports I hear are true she is more than just successful, she is famous throughout our Nation. Fred Blaylock has charge of the largest chain of dairies in the U. S. and is the proud father of a fine lad of six. His sister? Oh I Yes. I remember now. Gertrude is in partnership with her brother and is of high value to him in the business. I have heard that Fred could not have been such a com- plete success without her. Clyde Early, our baby, did I say baby? Well, we can call her a baby no longer for she has outgrown her babyish ways. Can you imagine what she is doing? After studying medicine for years, she is now one of the leading physicians of Philadelphia. John Wyatt and Frank Batts are now racing with each other to see which can perfect perpetual motion first. Each thinks that he has obtained that which the scientists for centuries have been working for. Here's wishing them success. Do you remember how interested we were in the Stribling-Sharkey fight back in '29. Well, a fight of equal importance is coming off next week when Battling Nick Robinson meets Tom Barbee in Miami. Fla. Glenn Davis’s time is in great demand because he is known as a man who can take all of the static out of a 1930 model Atwater Kent radio. Quite an accomplishment, isn't it? I know you are wondering why I haven't mentioned Buena Vista Roycroft. Her letter was at the bottom of the lot and I have just finished reading it. She is making a name for herself in screenland and is still doing right.” She told me that her new picture is a story of her life and she reviews her life at cary. Each of our class of '29 has made a success in the game called Life, but I often wonder if they do not wish they could live again thorugh the days at Cary. I know that I do. AiiICK Wai-dO, Class Prophetess. Twenty-five

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3. Raymond Campbell wills part of his height to Frank Moore. 4. Fred Nipper wills his pull with Mr. Meekins to Claiborne Johnson. 5. Azzie Lowe wills her cuteness to Ruth Nowell. 6. Dora Hardy gives her studiousness to David Branton. 7. Coleman Beal is to receive Fred Blaylock’s ability to cut up on class. 8. Mirrion Powers wills her popularity to Dixie Sorrell. 9. Virgie Franklin is to receive Alice Waldo’s ability to flirt. 10. Ada Hockaday wills her good nature to Alma L. Smith. 11. Radford Bailey wills his sincerity to Clarence Jones. 12. Martha Castlebury wills her winning personality to Edna Creel. 13. Ruth Cathey wills her beauty to Lou Etta Sloan. 14. Estelle Doyle wills her dignity to Bobby Moore. 15. Mirrion Powers wills her ability to play basketball to Geneva Hawkins. 16. Woodrow Sears wills his energy to Ed Wyatt. 17. Wiley Bashaw is to receive Billie Creel’s ability as a ball player. 18. Jack Burrus wills his artistic ability to Bryce Holloman. Article VIII We as Executors of this last will of testimony hereby nominate and appoint Coleman Beal and Ernestine Sherwin to see what is contained herewithin is carried out. In witness we hereunto subscribe our hands and seals on the twenty-sixth day of April in the year of our Lord 1929. Class of ’29. Witnesses: Roukrt Pleasants» Gkrtridk Blaylock. Testator. John Wyatt. Class Poem We’ve shared together our sorrows and joys As up the rugged hill we’ve climbed. And as we pause upon its crest A feeling of melancholy passes over us As sweet reminiscences penetrate our mind. This ascension has cost many efforts and worries. And a great sacrifice upon the part of others, But we scarcely visualize this now. Yet, why should we deem all this a sorrow? Our ardent hopes and dreams have been realized. We are now prepared for nobler things— Things that will live generations to come. So never from this hill descend, But let your radiance brighten the world about you. Poet '29. Twenty-seven