Mercy High School - Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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student library assistants 818 B 743 5-Where is it? Where can I find out about the life cycle of the Japanese fuchsia? Student librarians are confronted with and solve such questions while on duty. This year thirty-seven students joined the newly-organized group of student library assistants for the purpose of learning and practicing library techniques. On November 2, the members, with Sister Mary Loyola, moderator, were hostesses to student librarians from other high schools who attended the all-day meeting here of Student Library Assistants of Northern California. c a m e r a c I u b In the darkroom after school, stealthy forms move back and forth from shortstop to fixerg the silence is broken only by the click of the printer, the soft slap of negatives in the basin, and occasionally by the startled cry, Don't open that door! . . . Sigh . . . At monthly meetings sixty members study camera skills and in lab sessions print and enlarge their photographs. LOOKING FOR A GOOD BOOK? Library assistant officers display their choices: Helen Gaynor, secretary, Rosalind Wil- liams, vice president: Sandra Galdieri, president, Mary Kilcline, corresponding secretary: Kathy Flanagan, district two president of Student Library Assistants of Northern California, and Friah Leuterio, treasurer. DARKROOM DRAMA Ofhcers Mary O'Boyle, jean Parrinello, Molly Duggan, Claire Cook, advanced club president, and Diane Cadden, review technique of enlarging prints. Not shown: Pat Hanley, beginners' club president.

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I E TW mercycrest We knew an issue of Mercycrest was going to press when we saw Peg, Loretta, Jean, Sue, and Kathe dash to Room 213 after school, where they and the junior journalists chewed pencils over layouts, Put their heads together over captions, and met problems, like fitting eight inches of copy into a four-inch space! Occasionally Kathe would race upstairs to develop a much-needed neg, meeting Jean and Sue on route as they roamed the building taking a poll of student opinions. During the year the staff was privileged to meet Bishop Sheen and cover the profession ceremony of the Sisters of Mercy at which he officiated. By means of a survey they aided the student council in JEAN PARRINELLO Assistant Editor KATHE McDONNELL Assistant Editor Q CLAIRE COOK JULIE DRISCOLL MARY SCHMIEDEL Business SUE MIFSUD Assistant Editor determining section reactions to a proposed school ring and widened students' horizons by interviewing professional workers in different fields: a laboratory technician, a department store buyer, a newspaper editor, and the administration of a school for the handicapped. Ground-breaking for the neighboring Merced Branch of the San Francisco Public Library prompted a local feature, one of the many by which the staff promoted community relations. The editorials in Mercycrest, which were displayed at four local high school journalists' conventions which the staff attended were lauded for their national and international, as well as local scope, supporting the papers' t'W0-year rating of All Catholic in the Catholic School Press Association.