Mercy High School - Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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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.

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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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patron comm ittec fx ' x, ,. -3, 1.-nt: ffl S . -t ' Af ,zf'fj,0'! ANOTHER SECTION MOVES UP TODAY: -lane Barber, Judy hfloriarty, Fda Bozzo, Chris Gallagher Cpatron chairmanj, and Stevie Murray happily watch sections climb until March 26, when fifteen sections reached the one hundred or over mark and claimed the traditional patron prize. Patron support enabled . the staff to include one full-color page view of the school and a duotone l1h0f0gVUPhef'5 doublespread in the classes division besides other new yearbook features. Most of all, Shield staff expresses gratitude to fellow students for their generous support in the subscription and patron drives. We hope that Spartans, Belles, X and Starlettes receive the enthusi- astic help given '59ers. ' 9 shleld 58 awards ARMED WITH CAMERA AND FLASHBULBS ever-ready photog- raphers were available to snap needed pictures or to help work up all-day group pictures, taken by Mike Cirimele. All-Catholic .............. Catholic School Press Association All-American second honors . . . National Scholastic Press Association SLlbSCflPIliOlI committee SUBSCRIPTION CONIMITTEE workers typed out homeroom lists subscribers - entire student body: Mary Beth Cota, Joanne Ohlsen, Carole Rogers, joan Hauck, and Chairman Barbara Driscoll. X