Totville Nursery

Although GI Bill benefits were generous, growing families in Vetville and Trailwood often needed two incomes to make ends meet. Private nurseries were not affordable, so parents shared baby-sitting responsibilities, and neighbors called on each other for help. Raleigh businesses and NC State pulled together to set up the Totville Day Nursery.

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Credit: State College News, June 1949.

Baby boomers at the Totville Nursery.

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Credit: State College News, May 1948.

Ad for "N.C. State 19??" T-shirts.

Pictured at the far left is Walden Hearn Jr., who spent his first few years in Vetville. (The two other children's names are unknown.)

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Credit: The History of Vetville for the Vetville Council.

Unidentified child on a muddy Vetville playground.

"My wife, Beverly, worked for [Roy B.] Clogston, the Athletic Director of NC State, while I was going to school. The neighbors looked after the child while I was in school, until I got back. . . . I scheduled all my classes in the morning so the afternoons were free and I could take care of my son."

– Charlie McCann, Class of 1949.

 

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