Mount Mercy Academy - Mercian Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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Voledictoricm l I O Scllutatorlan ALDONA BALYS WAS BORN IN KAUNAS, LITHUANIA T0 MR. AND MARY Jo BOOTH REGAN HER LIFE WITH MERCV. SHE HAS BORN T0 MRS, STANLEY K. BALYS HHERE SHE LIVED UNTIL THE GERMAN IN- EARL AND IRENE BOOTH AT MERCY HOSPITAL, BAY CITY, MICHIGAN. VASION IN IQHM, THE FAMILY LEFT LITHUANIA, TRAVELED THROUGH SHE ATTENDED HOLY TRINITY GRADE SCHOOL THROUGH THE SIXTH POLAND AND GERMANY, AND THEN SET7LED IN ELUOENS, AUSTRIA, A GRADE. HER PARENTS MOVED T0 ONAWAY IN THE SUMMER OF I952. SMALL TOWN IN THE ALPS. WHEN ALOONA STARTED SCHOOL THERE, AFTER HAVING ATTENOEO ONAWAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL FOR TWO SHE KNEH NO GERMAN BUT SOON ACQUIRED A COMMAND OF THE LAN- YEARS, MARY JO DESIRED A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION AND GUAGE WHICH SHE STILL SPEAKS TODAY. SHE ALSO STUDIEO so SHE LEFT HER DOG, SKIPPER, HER FRIENDS, AND HER FAPILY, ENGLISH DFGAUSE HER FATHER FORESAH THEIR GOING T0 AMERICA. INCLUDING HER YOUNGER BROTHER FLOYD, TO COME TO MOUNT MERCY SHE HAD COMPLETED THE THIRD GRADE NHEN SHE, WITH HER PARENTS AS A ROARDING STUDENT IN SEPTEMBER, IQ5H.DURING HER SOPHO- ANU YOUNCER BROTHER SAULIUS, LEFT AUSTRIA FOR AMERICA. IN MORE YEAR THE GIRLS RECEIVED THE DISHEARTENING NEHS THAT IQSO. MOST OF THAT YEAR WAS SPENT TRAVELING. WHEN THE THERE WOULD BE N0 FACILITIES FOR B0ARDgRS THE EOLLOHING BALYS FAMILY GAME TO GRAND RAPIDS, ALDONA ENTEREO AND COM- YEAR, MARY Jo ADMITS SHE HAD BECOME NRATHER ATYACNEDH T0 PLETED HER ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL TRAINING AT MOUNT MERCY AND HAS DETERMINEO T0 COME BACK. IT HAS FINALLY SS PETER A PAUL SCHOOL. ARRANGED THAT SHE SHOULD STAY WITH THE PARENTS OF ONE or HER FAVORITE HOBBIES, WHEN N07 STUDYING, ARE READING AND MOUNT MERCY'S OHN ALUMNAE, MR. AND MRS. JOHN PEEREEOOH, WHO KEEPING HER HISTORY SCRAP aoox UP TO DATE. MARY JO SAYS, HAVE GIVEN HER ALL THE LOvE THEY COULD GIVE A HAVING REACHED HER EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY, ALDONA IS IN DAUGHTER OF THEIR OHN. PROCESS OF APFLYING FOR HER AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. AFTER HER HIGH SCHOOL YEARS HAVE BEEN FILLED wITH MERCY. THE GRADUATION SHE PLANS T0 ATTEND AQUINAS COLLEGE WHERE SHE FUTURE INCLUDES MERCY ALSO. MARY JO HILL ATTEND MERCY HILL MAJOR IN MATHEMATICS. COLLEGE, DETROIT, HHERE SHE PLANS TO STUDY ELEMENTARY EDU- WE RAY FITTING TRIBUTE T0 ALDONA, OUR TOP SCNOLASTlC-- CATION, UALEDICTORIAN OF MOUNT MERCY AND NEH CITIZEN Or OUR COUNTRY. MR. AND MRS. BOOTH HAvE A DAUGHTER OF WHOM THEY CAN BE VERY PROUD -MARY JO SALUTATORIAN, I9581