Mercy High School - Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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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

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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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l opera da La Traviatu, presented by the San Francisco Opera Company, Friday after4 noon, October 10 at XVar Memorial Opera House was a remembered joy for over forty music lovers in the student body. Annually, students attend the afternoon performance, presented especially for high school students of the Bay Area. Accompanying the Mercy group were Sisters Mary Alexandrine and Mary Inez, music department. Colle e business day A' THEY TOURED METROPOLITAN LIFE while col lege minded Fifty Niners were guests at Dominican Holy Names Notre Dame SF College for Women Martin j Bishop .I Next K White M Merlo A Thuesen A Long L McMull1n G Benvenuto j Pomilia -I Mockel B Rice ROW TWO S Doyle M Swall G Grtflin P Lamey N Smith M ODonnell C Aceret M Mullins M Bastndas L Lee ROW THREE C Rodgers M Oclassen S Powers L Pries M Smlth K Widener M Barry J Orengo J Mc Cann N Burke ROW FOUR B Kerri H Bates P Mulkeen M Mull-teen M Dunne C Gannon S Bar rango M Maniscalco J Ohlsen ROW FIVE L Fox Lyons S Murphy M Mulholland N McCormick M OB0yle ROW SIX S McNamara L Sullivan C Conneely Mr R Reichele of Metropoliton Life Insur ance Company J Moriarty G Hiett C Isola j Pierano J Schneider C OToole J Sokolik C Page J Rutherford S OToole K Leet I any 4, ,-,,,,,.,. ,, .., ,A , , , ,. . . , W . ,im i and II.S.F. Wednesday, Odtober 295 ROW ONE: Ai J. Costello, S. Shauglinessy, D. Tarantino, S. Lycett, Si