Mercy High School - Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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1 5 JUNIOR JOURNALISTS Kay Dowd Judy Albn Helen Gaynor Judy Lucchesx Pat Lundy Pat Martm SEATED Marne Ferrarn Sandra Galdnerl Not shown Rosalmd Wnllxams Barbara Rueter the record year In November Mercy journalists were the subyect of a talk that Slster Mar-y Eugene was asked to gxve at the Catholxc Educa txonal Press Congress, IU Mllwaukee Durmg the congress, Slster recelved a plaque for outstandmg achxevements as a publlcatlons adviser While yournallsm was not a curricular subject thxs year, several freshmen and a promlsmg group of over twenty five sophomores undertook press projects for X presentatlon at YWICC monthly meetmgs .-sm unlors met each Frxday mornrng Towards FRONT PAGE MAKEUP Barbara Kearney Mary Ann the end of thlrd quarter, journallsm meetmgs increased Seawell and Maureen O Shaughnessy watch Garrett Press composnor Peter Hegre block m the last headlme before other press awards Dullmg a page proof for final O K Al1Cathol1c Catholxc Educarronal Press Assn All American First Honors National Scholastlc Press Assn Two D1v1s1onal Awards for feature story wrnt ings San Francisco Press Club Citation for National Newspaper Week observance Quill 8: Scroll fwon by freshmenj .JH ' K X .. y 1 1 9 , I : , . : , . I O C 9 ' 1, . A . . . K . . . . R , . - v . I f VVVV ,yy ' . , i K -I A 'Ns 3 T . . .u 'Nh ' ,g ifs f - I-no Q - - Z 9 , y 3 . -

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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.

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1- shield ' 1959 .iiii ,fi EDITORIAL MFFT: Poring over yearbook cartoon dummy, the staff plans page content for the Fifty-Niners' own book. SFATIED: litlitor Bonnie Burns, Associate Iitlitor jeanne O'Callaghan, and Roberta Stephens, copywriter. STANDING: Nancy Corsiglia, layout assistant and office manager: Leah XY'ynne, copywriterg Kathy Ailes, assistant editor: and Anne Leahy, art consultant. Special thanks of the editorial staff go to Sandra Galdieri '60, jucly Lucchesi Y-U, Pat Furnanz '61, Christine Ryan and jatklyn Musselman '62 for their assistance on class sections. From those early Fall days when the staff eagerly searched various photo files for Alerc-1'S,i1iril theme pictures. to the April l deadline when they could excitedly say only six pages to go l Shield '59 was a constant subject of contemplation, action, anticipation, and, finally - realization. J, For the staff, Shield '59 contains fond memories of rushed photog- raphy schedules, layout planning, and writing copy to at the 0 space - all to meet those ever-present deadlines. Too, there are ' matchless experiences of stopping a cablecar on California and Grant Avenue, riding across the Golden Gate Bridge in Mr. Fd E , , A Moores paddy wagon. and posing a picture in the cockpit of a ' ,ix J United Airliner, Q But it was the cooperation and support of the entire Mercy Family which helped to make Shield '59 a book that covers all school activities through April 12 - a book crowded with twenty-four new pages. lypists in-' XX'HAT'S NEXT ON THF PIX SCHEDULE? Bonnie Burns and Sharon Kleinhans, chief photographer, plan another split-minute series of I X yearbook pictures. .95 'ix fl TYPISTS Marilyn Barry, Laura O'Sullivan, and Myra Oclassen faithfully translated editorial scrawls to 1 I6 legible neatly typed final copies for the lithographer.