My grand daughter, Lupe, age, 11, just finished the 5th grade. It is an all girl's school and they had a yearbook. Well, they did the same things in a way that we did. I was surprised. She has her friends to sign and they write notes, etc. Very interesting. So, in the process, she wants to know if we had yearbooks when I was in school. She didn't say it but she meant, "the dark ages." Why yes and I get out my Annual, as I explained, we called them. It was so funny as she was looking through, many funny things but one was that she constantly read the notes and the things by our pictures. Lupe could hardly believe it; her Opa.

What is equally fascinating to me is that we wrote such poignant things and had such insight. I think one of the fabulous things about getting older are the memories and how to preserve them and in this case, share them. ja

COMMENTS FROM JERRY WILKINS

My first car was a 1958 Ford red and white convertible and we sure did have some great times in that car. Remember Larry Godwin and I left the ECU campus the first week-end we did not have football practice and were headed to Greensboro to see Betsy Sue and her roommate and had a wreck outside of Wendell NC as a Lady was passing a car on a hill and we had a head on collision and totaled the car: the lady was killed. Larry and I wound up in the hospital in Raleigh for a couple of days.

Our Varsity Football team was playing at Lenoir Ryne that week-end and of course as freshmen we were restricted to campus and this trip took place as an unapproved road trip. Coach Boone heard that we had this wreck and came by the hospital on Sunday morning and after finding out we were not seriously hurt he explained that the wreck was not going to be bad as it was going to be for us to earn his trust again and I can not even begin to tell you how many laps we ran after practice that next week after the doctors said we could practice again. Oh, one other fact he took our meal books so we had to earn them back. I always thought that was why Larry decided to give up football and marry Carolyn. Not a bad way to end a very bad situation....thought you would like hear that story. You may have already known it any way.......... Jerry Wilkins