Raleigh : An Office profile;

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Conferring in North Hills branch of the
Bank of North Carolina are (I. to r.) Charles
F. Merrill, executive vice president of
Bancshares of North Carolina, Inc., the
holding company of which Bank of North
Carolina is a subsidiary; DH&S audit man­ager
Rudy Wright; Bancshares of N.C.
senior vice president John F. Kabas;
Bancshares secretary-treasurer Joseph H.
Bridges, Jr.; audit senior James Ashcraft;
and staff accountant Olivia Mayer. Bank of
North Carolina is a state-wide organization
that operates sixty-five branches in forty-one
communities.
The senses tell of autumn in the
Raleigh area far more surely than the
calendar — the brilliance of foliage red,
orange and yellow against the green
pines, the smell of burning leaves in
the breeze of a soft country afternoon,
the distant roar of the crowds on col­lege
football weekends. For many,
Raleigh represents the best aspects of
traditional Southern living combined
with those elements of the twentieth
century that suit a gracious, more in­formal
way of life.
Although Raleigh, capital of North
Carolina and seat of Wake County, was
not founded until after the Revo­lutionary
War, its history can be traced
to the sixteenth century. The French
and Spanish had explored the coast of
what today is North Carolina in the
early 1500s, but it was not until August
of 1585 that a group of 108 Englishmen
established a colony on Roanoke Is­land,
which lies in a sound between
the mainland and what is today part of
Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The