Cary High School - YRAC Yearbook (Cary, NC)

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 I met Lt. Cmdr. Lester Woodall on his way from Norfolk to Chicago on my trip. He really agrees with that Navy life as well as Capt. Joe Summers does with the Army. Shirley Dupree was traveling with Lester. She joined the Waves and is his private secretary. Roger Williams, M. D., is on the medical staff at Walter Reid Hospital in Washington, D. C. Raoul Maynard is the pastor of the Baptist Church in Cary. The membership has increased since he took the church. Thelma Dillard teaches the girls in the primary department, and she is also the church secretary. Vivian Blake graduated at Meredith last year, and she is a religious educator. Carolyn, Marie Holland has almost completed her wedding pians. She is doing secretarial work at the Revenue Department. Do you remember those bookkeeping classes we had? Mercy! We really studied in that class! By the way, Barbara Hansley and Frederick Page are bookkeepers for the Carolina Power Light Co. Colleen Johnson and Pearl Vaughn are secretaries for Billy Rogers, who has a chain of grocery stores over the United States. Linville Midgette is chief of police here in Cary—following in his daddy's footsteps, and he is doing an excellent job. I saw Helen Trader at the Stork Club a few days ago. She was celebrating an offer from Ronnie Stevens' Movie Studios to dance in Jackie Proescher's new movie The Greatest Dance On Earth. Well, Betty, what are you doing? I have a civil service job—stenographer at the Army base out at the Raleigh- Durham Airport. I've really enjoyed talking to you, Carolyn. Please do come out to see me while you are home. Can you come this weekend? Thank you, yes. I'll try to come out and see you Sunday. 'Bye now. PROPHETESS: Betty Cotten

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'PiafiAecy (RING-G-G.) Hello, Carolyn! This is Betty. Your Dad told me you were coming home on a two weeks vacation. I can't wait to see you! By the way, how have you been getting along in the 'modeling world'? Oh, Betty,l really like it. Joyce Leonard and I have some thrilling moments when Billy Maynard calls out his models—all wearing fashions designed by Ann War- rick, of course. I saw Rebecca Grissom last week buying for Ivey-Taylor. Do you realize it has been nearly six years since I was in North Carolina? What are some of the others doing now? Has the school changed very much? Oh, haven't you heard? Rayvon Cooke—a first-rate carpenter—is just finishing a new agricultural building for the boys at school, and Linwood Baker has done so much to promote the Ag Department. Everyone calls him Little Dad; he reminds us so much of Dad Dunham. Frances Marcom is the Home Economics teacher at Cary now, and she really is enjoying the new cottage that was built when we were Seniors. Oh, it seem so long ago! Some of the others are teach- ing also. Robert Craddock is a professor in the Math Department at the University of North Carolina. And by the way, the girls' basketball team won the state championship this year. Rixie Maidon is coaching them. Sherrill Jones' football boys are still holding the good title that the Class of '53 left. They are going to Louisburg next week and Gene McConnell, who is a Carolina Trailways employee, is driving the chartered bus for them. Joyice Smith, Economics teacher, and Robert Cotten, History teacher, took their classes to Washington last month. They had a nice trip, and seemed to enjoy it so much. Barbara Lassiter has taken Mrs. Marley's place in one respect and is teaching five periods of Dramatics a day. Goodness! You could never guess who I saw last week—Sue Ingold. She was passing through New York on her way to visit some European countries. That girl really has a life of ease! I visited Jane Lee backstage last week after hearing her play in Carnegie Hall. We thought she was an accomplished pianist when she was at school, but you should hear her now. She certainly does play well. I heard her on radio station WCHS, engineered by Jerrall Spencer. Did you know that Yvonne Wilson sang in the Metropolitan Opera last week? I saw her picture in the CARY DAILY, edited by Ed Mitchell. I was downtown last week and naturally I over-parked. I got a ticket from one of Raleigh's new police women, Eloise Harrison, but my lawyer, Teddy Jones, got me out of that one. Sherlyn Harrell is still playing with Hanes' Hosiery and she does some office work there too. Tommy Crowder has settled down and he is rear- ing a nice family. His little girl is in the hospital now with a broken leg. Bette Nock is her doctor, and Wyvette Brown and Shirley Casey are nursing her. With such good attention and care she should be well soon. Betsy Hamilton is the Superintendent of Nurses at Rex, and Frances Ray is the receptionist. Cary grad- uates surely are well represented at Rex. Emma Holt Johnson is rearing a nice family. She has a new home in Edwards Village in Raleigh. Bobby Edwards is the contractor of this village, and Annie Jo Mustian, Phyllis McDaniel, Bobby Jean Sorrell, and Barbara Speight are on his office staff.

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 20M and 7e4ta tte tt We, the happy and glorious graduating class of 1953, being of sound mind and body, and in complete knowledge that the rising Senior Class could never excel our fine creative ability and will to succeed, do hereby proclaim and publish this Last Will and Testament of the prosperous class of 1953. ARTICLE I: To the faculty: Item Item Item Item 1: 2: 3: 4: To Mr. Paul W. Cooper, we leave a larger and greater school. To Mrs. Clare Marley, we leave thoughts of our creative writing. To Mrs. Edna Lorenz, we leave our love and the dedication of the YRCA. To Miss Romona Lamn, we leave students who will not set the time clock. Item 5: To Mr. Simon Terrill, we leave another undefeated football team. Item 6: To Mrs. Esther Kell Mitchell, we leave a more industrious math class. Item 7: To Mrs. Ruth Boldridge, we leave Latin. (No one else would have it.) Item 8: To Mr. R. S. Dunham, we leave the title, the chairman. Item 9: To Mr. Harold Burt, we leave better bands in years to come. Item 10: To Mrs. Lula Smith, we leave a Junior Class who will solve their own problems. Item 11. To Mrs. Rachel McLeod, we leave a new Chemistry Laboratory. Item 12: To Mrs. Lucille Jordan, we leave a big and modern Home Economics Department. Item 13: To Mr. James Godwin, we leave a big and loving family. Item 14: To Mrs. Lillian Parker, we leave a more hopeful Sociology class. ARTICLE II: To the Underclassmen: Item 1: To the Junior Class, we leave the ability to co-operate with Mr. Cooper as well as we have. Item 2: To the Sophomore Class, we leave the Excitement of Geometry. Item 3: To the Freshman Class, we leave Mr. Godwin and hope they will enjoy being a part of his family as much as his sisters do. Item 4: To the Underclassmen, we leave the will to work and strive as we have and hope you have a marvelous school career. ARTICLE III: To Particular Personalities: Item 1: I, Wyvette Brown, leave my title of Business Manager to the YRAC and all my receipt books to Nancy Spruill. Item 2: I, Sherrill Jones, leave my athletic ability to Charles Adams. Item 3: I, Annie Jo Mustian, leave my quiet and dignified ways to Adele Evans. Item 4: I, Pearl Vaughn, leave my bus to anyone who can drive it. Item 5: I, Linwood Baker, leave my love for study hall to Robert Maynard. Item 6: I, Helen Trader, leave my love of arguing to Pete Gorham. Item 7: I, Shirley Casey, leave my title of Belle to Jean Adams. Item 8: I, Tommy Crowder, leave my ability to make love to Archie Beal, hoping that he will make love to some girl some day. Item 9: I, Billy Rogers, leave Mr. Cooper and my many girl friends with a broken heart.