ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

21ST ALUMNI TRACK MEET

August 6

BOSTON ALUMNI NETWORK HAPPY HOUR

November 10 at Burro Bar

SAVE THE DATE FOR CLASS REUNIONS!

DC ALUMNI NETWORK HAPPY HOUR

October 27 at The Admiral

CHARLOTTE ALUMNI NETWORK HAPPY HOUR

December 1 at Brewers at 4001 Yancey

If you graduated in a class that ends with a 3 or an 8, we look forward to celebrating with you this spring on April 22, 2023. If you are interested in being a part of the reunion planning, please email Alumni Relations Director Kara Mulligan at Kara_Mulligan@caryacademy.org.

The Big Question

IF YOU COULD TRADE LIVES FOR A WEEK WITH ONE PERSON FROM HISTORY, WHO WOULD IT BE AND WHY?

8th Grade Language Arts and Co-Lead Advisor

Assuming this is a Freaky Friday situation where my mind goes into their body, I'd want to fulfill my middle school dream of being a professional basketball player. For his athletic prowess, calm demeanor, and connection to Wake Forest, I choose Tim Duncan in 1999!

I would trade lives with Betty White because she was loved by so many and had so many amazing accomplishments throughout her life. If I had to choose a time period to live in her shoes, it would be when she got her first big break in Hollywood on Life with Elizabeth

I would like to be Taylor Swift for a week to understand how she lives in her everyday life, especially as a woman in the top tier of the music industry.

If I had to trade lives for a week with someone in history, I would trade lives with Marie Curie. I have a passion for chemistry and physics and would love to see how she was able to defy gender norms in STEM.

Aldo Leopold. He was able to convey a deep understanding of how humans fit into natural systems with magnificent prose. I would love to know how he came to these understandings which were so distinctly different then his contemporaries, John Muir and Gifford Pinchot.

I’d probably go with Neil Armstrong the week he landed on the moon. The feeling of achieving something no other human has ever achieved must have been quite the experience.

I would like to be American swimmer Katie Ledecky for a week. She is a super-fast swimmer, and she has gone to the Olympics and won several gold medals!

I think for one week, I would trade lives with Queen Elizabeth II so that I can eat scrumptious Buckingham Palace dinners and play with the royal corgis. I would also find it fascinating to live lavishly for a week and frolic around London speaking in a British accent.

I would like to be Hillary Knight on the Women’s USA Hockey team. She’s a really good player, and I really look up to her as a woman in sports.

I would be Banksy because everybody loves him and he's created so many great pieces of art.

I would trade lives with Whitney Houston because she is such an amazing singer, and I want to hold 28 Guinness Book Of World Records like her.