Mercy High School - Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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M e r c Our Lady came too! da P0 Fl Ar Ji. BALLAD OF CATHERINE MC AULEY so appropriately honoring Mercy Order's foun- dress, added the final touch of musical atmosphere, On September 24, the student body gathered once again for a reverent and happy observance of the Feast of Our Lady of Mercy, patroness of our school, and the special feast of our Sisters. Each girl was inspired by the words of Anne Leahy, S.S.C. president, as she presented the traditional qualities which make Mercy Spirit: . . . personal love of God, devotion to Our Lady, friendliness, courtesy, and helpfulness. And each Mercy girl left with a prayer to her patroness that she may attain the Ideal- MARX WILCOX actepted the congratulations of that Spirit of Mercy which she will carry away on graduation day, Sister Mary Assumpta keep with her all through her life and into Eternity. on receiving her fourth certificate of C S F membership HAPPY FRESHBIEN greatly enjoyed their first Mercy Day assembly.

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LIBRARY ASSISTANTS Mary Lou Kilcline, president: Leslie Toma- sini, vice-president, and Kathy Flanagan, chairman of SLANC, District 2, put out current periodicals for student readers. During Catholic Book week, February 22 to 28, the school's twenty student library assistants issued the flrst bi-weekly library bulletins to homerooms, which aimed to keep students informed about all new books. student librarians Student librarians also attended the fall meeting of the Student Library Assistants of Northern California at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley and heard special comments by authors of prose and poetry for children's books. On the first Saturday after Easter representatives attended a meeting for student librarians from district schools at College of the Pacific in Stockton. Lili' ,.-v- -1 'L' 4 XA SELECT ING NEW BOOKS for display racks are student assistants Sharon Kleinhans, corresponding sec., Judy Lucchesi, treasurer and Barbara Quirie, secretary. main office club MAIN OFFICE CLUB workers give a minimum of tive hours per quarter service as receptionists and messen- gers before and after school as well as weekends. Their generosity frees the faculty for school work. TAKING MESSAGES is a major function of Main Office Club members Eda Bozzo, president, Yvonne Nurre, vice-president, and Marcia Kinces. .,w..2A

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Y - 9 l ,ae ' es..- - 1411 bv SENIOR EDITORIAL BOARD: Maureen O'Shaughnessy, Mary Ann Seawell, editor, joan O'Donnell, and Barbara Kearney put out four issues of the paper and welcomed four juniors as board members. This was a year of new recognition for Mercyfrext. In October, at Stanford Uni- versity's Central California Scholastic Press Convention, Mercy was chosen president of the association for 1958-1959. The '60 editor will preside at the annual meeting next September. In December, articles by junior journalists Judy Albi and Judy Lucchesi merited honorable mention for the paper by the City's Tuberculosis Association. For the first time in its short history, Mercyfrest received local recognition when it was named the best girls' hfgh school news- paper by professional newsmen judges at University of San Francisco's February 28 press convention for public and private high schools of the City. The school's trophy collection increased by one with that honor. During the year the staff widened students' horizons by interviewing professional workers in various fields: a woman judge, an airline stewardess, Author jade Snow Wong, and Newspaperman James McGuiness. Editorials on local, national, IIICPC CI'CSt and international affairs brought current events close to home. And throughout all features on school and nation, the staff sought always to convey a deeper apprecia tion of the ideals of Catholic living. lin: FAITHFUL TYPISTS Joan Bishop, Marianne Mullins and Barbara Sherman were generous in their services before each issue, spending an average of three hours each in typing copy and mailing copies of the paper to an exchange list that numbers nearly one hundred high schools in California and throughout America.