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By TED CRAIL
Record Stafl Writer
The girls on this page are about to embark on one
of life’s great adventures. They are all going to college.
They have, in fact, already left. Most of them took off
at the sound of the flash bulb
Almost to a woman, they have not been to college
before. This is their first year. But they're ready for it.
They have enough lipstick, clothes, suitcases, words of en
couragement, patient boyfriends. Chanel 5. and strong
teeth (for biting fingernails) to carry them through all
vicissitudes.
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WILL STICK TOGETHER Kathryn Thomas (left) and Mar
garet Lee Naylor won't have to worry about who they’ll draw for
roommates when they jet to Campbell College. They’ll room to
gether. At the Buie’s Creek school Kathryn plans to study religious
education while Margaret Lee is interested in primary education.
Miss Naylor is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luby Naylor of South
General Lee Avenue. Kathryn’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Perry
Thomas, Sid South Fayetteville Avenue.
Whatever occurs, and a great
deal will occur in their first year,
you can be sure they will not be
the same when they touch here
again.
They may not be like Ethel Bar
rymore, either, but at 'least they
will be changed. Many of them, in
fact, are likely to come back brides
or brides-to-be at least pretty
soon —for there is increasing evi
dence that colleges are adding mat
rimonial bureaus to their other
services.
That is one of the reasons why
girls go there. Some, of course, go
to become bacteriologists. Most of
them change their minds because
they find something they like bet
ter than bacteria, but a surprising
number are faithful to their am
bitions. These are good ones, and
they get their rewards by and by.
They marry smart and have chil
dren who work on electronic brains
College is a treacherous place for
the beginner, and wonderful and
solicitous housemothers can't trike
all the sting out of it. More than
one of these girls will be ringing
her mother before long to say she
will have to come home, she misses
the dog too much but mother
will be firm and daughter will stay
Since she is from Harnett Coun
ty, she will carry on in (he grand
tradition of American women
like Dorothy Parker, perhaps, who
flunked English, but. went on to
greater glory. Mast of Dunn’s col
lege-bound younger set will come
out the better for having gonp to
college, regradless of what happens
to them there. Even if they don’t
leam the date of the Bottle of
Hastings.
The bestjobs these days go to
college graduates This is particu
larly true for women, who can rare
ly get away from stenography
wcitressing dressmaking without
a sheepskin And the girls who go
to oollege to get married hfc not
exactly foolish for college really is
a kind of game preserve where
lonesome bucks feel safer than they
would on open ground
AND BOYB, TOO
A lot of Dunn girls, and Lilling
ton girls, even in addition to those
seen here, are headed for college
to take advantage of the charm
building. talent-building nature of
ths place. Borne boys, too but
not as many because most of them
are getting their armed forces ser
vice out of the way first. Miss
Ophelia Matthews, principal of
Duhn High School, figured up. if
' we remember her right that about
one in four of last year’s graduates
are off to college this fall.
That’* pretty good. In fact M’s
above the national average not
as much, though, as a couple of
years ago when over half the grad
uating class went off to the halls
of ivy. Some who go quit, but some
who don’t go, go later, so it about
balances out.
As they left here this week with
their techni-colored luggage and in
high - heeled shoes, most of these
girls were plainly in the category
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PENNIE IS MOURNFUL Dark-haired Bar
bara Reddish, 709 North Orange, Med her biggest
smile on the family’s pet Mexican Chinoahua JPen
nle, but all In vain. Pennle will be staying home
while Barbara ventures to Peace College In Ra
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MAMA HELPS OCT Packing would have taken a lot long
er and there could have been things left behind if Mrs. Billy
Hodges hadn’t given daughter Laney an assist in the vital few hours .
before she left for Flora Macdonald College in Red Springs. Not odd
ly, Laney whose real name is Elaine will study music at col
lege. In Dunn, she not only played the organ for the First Baptist
Church as assistant, but last year she was School Musician, tink-
called “sweet young things.” Mean
ing too old to scold and too
young to cuss.
The next time seen they will be
taking their place in the adult
world. You can be anything you
want, girls, remember that. And
North Carolina women are famous
for what they want.
Just don’t get Ava Gardner’s
appetite.
leigb. A triple threat In high scheof, Barbara mas
a high - kicking cheerleader, editor of the Dunn
Echo, high school annual, and bad a leading role
in the senior play, “The Groom Said No." She is
the daughter at Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Reddish.
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ling out school songs, hymns, even a little jazz at Friday assem
blies. As a Dunn High cheerleader, she was also good at producing
the kind of music cheerleaders make. “Hey, Su-n-z-ie! Yeah, uh
huh—”) If there were boys at Flora Macdonald they might think
uh-huh, too, when Laney gets there. There aren’t. Laney’s parents
live at 609 West Pope Street. t
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It’s easy to see that graduates of Dunn High
School from last year are very North Carolina
conscious. They were headed this week for Chapel
Hill, Campbell College, the Flora Macdonald
College for girls and other state institutions,
but not one was aimed for an out -of - state uni
versity.
Carolyn Parker has gone to Woman’s College in Greens
boro. A good student at Dunn High, Carolyn is planning to
take business courses. She was in the library club, took
part in newspaper activities last year.
Valedictorian Herman Godwin who won a whole passel
of honors in high school was president of the student
body last year, Hi-Y president and on the basketball and
baseball varsity teams is headed for Chapel Hill. W*l£o
last heard from, Herman was planning to star ,f - 5 ft pre-Wed, | |
The Morehead scholarship he won will PW-JjfeghAhfr way i
through college. He was also governor ffQptajg Stfete ijp !
his junior year, so it
There’s Macßae Turlington," of oguryfc
Lou Westbrook received a letter
Chapel Hill the other day. He’s therff. on VTooqjßffiifj
ship. He attracted a lot of attention' -in* this
West game in Greensboro. '•? j-' i% |
Each year Dunn Hi School holds College Day and Caree* .
Day. College Day will be in October this year. Seniors Tap'd Sj
juniors hear from representatives of various schools, »gef >
to ask questions - - finding out about courses and tuition
and all the vital details. •
Career Day will be in early spring. Older students par
ticipate, pick out their major subjects for college, thep ’
hear special talks on these subjects by speakers who are
sent out from various colleges. Helps to avoid those be
ginners’ blues and the small voice that says. “I haven’t
picked my major yet.”.
Larry Thomas is also at Chapel Hill, studying pharmacy
(daddy already is one, at Thomas-Walgreen Drug); Betty
Frances Parker is slanting for a business career, at Hard
barger’s Business College in Raleigh; going to Peace Col
lege in Raleigh are Linda Williams and Ida Neighbors,
Billy Woodall and Ronald Earl Taylor are at Atlantic i
Christian in Wilson.
The manager of football and basketball teams at Dunn
High for several years, Bobby Dixon, is taking his school
spirit with him to East Carolina College in Greenville.
Bobby, who is big enough to frighten other teams to death,
didn’t play the game himself but he was a real help to
the squad.
Also going to East Carolina is Alice Lou Jackson. A
member of Tri-Hi-Y and the student council, Alice was
one of Dunnes most ardent female sports enthusiasts. Jim
my Carroll is going to North Carolina State. He won the
won the science award medal, is a radio ham.
Donald Jackson delegate to Boy’s State year before last
and of the student council last year, is
starting at Chapel Hill. He’s planning on a medical career.
James Stephenson add A. C. Godwin are going to Campbell
College in \Buieis Creek.
Anyway, thq.local grads don’t seem to be turning toward
engineering quite as frequently as boys from other places.
Maybe some .of .those who have headed for service will try
it when they get back. Lindy Wood, now in the Navy, plans
to go to Atlantic. Christian when his hitch ts done. Billy
stationed *t Brainbridge, Maryland -- plan on college,
and Bobby Oodyrtn, also ‘ln' the Navy - - like Lindy they’re
Bobby wants s>to try Campbell College. Their mothers say
' they like’the N*vy, though ~ maybe a change of plans?
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 16, 1955
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BONES CP IN ADVANCE Before she even left Dunn, Alice
Prince had dug out a “Progressive Second Algebra." and was hard
at work on college-type equations. Because she’s so dumb? Alice
was salulatorian of the Dunn '55 graduating class. She's now en
rolled at Duke Cnlversity. Secretary of the student council in her
junior year, pretty Alice was also a star basketball player. Classmates
voted her the "most athletir" in the Senior Superlatives contest.
Alice's parents are Mr. and Mrs. llugu Prince. 309 West Divine
Street. •
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QCF.EN TO A NEW REALM Beth Adcock, who was Lilllng
ton’s “Girl Scout May Queen’’ only a few months ago is about to
change jurisdictions. She left this week for Peace Junior College,
Presbyterian girls’ school in Raleigh, where she will be a freshman.
Beth had a lot of fun talking about college before she left, asking
questions of those who have already been there. In a girls' school,
for instance, where do your dates come from?
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FAN OF THE REAL COOL Ann Jackson, of Lillington, who is
beginning her second year at Flora Macdonald College, Red Springs,
known y6u can’t take everything with you to college, but you can
try. She’s going hack this time fortified with some of her favorite
records, a couple of cherished teddy bears, and of course her best
clothes. Things should be quieter for Ann, once she’s safely off to
school. This summer-she’s had to answer a lot of telephone «—Ms for
her mother, who Is chairman of the historical museum which will
be open during Centennial Week.