Mercy Academy - Thesaurus Yearbook (Marshall, MO)

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First row -R. Chow, Associate Editor: R. ix'1CKAY, Assistant Editor: E. l',u'L1N, Reporter: l-I SWISHICR, Reporter. Second row Nl. I.. BARR, Associate Editor: E. BROAUHEAD, Associate Editor: M, Cixsru-i, Editor- in-chief: Nl. j. FRAIN, Associate Editor: A. DOKMIER, Associate Editor Third row fR. llixvon, Reporter: bl. SWEIQNIGY, Exchange Editor: l.. H.-won, Business Manager. THE MERCET BEAM AND THESAURUS STAFF HIC Blereet Beam and Thesaurus Staff organized this year with Sister Mary Agatha adviser and Mildred Castle Editor-in-Chief. The paper is published monthly for five months and then the annual is edited. For live years our paper and annual have been published successfully. This year marked a great improvement in our paper, owing to the cooperation of the staff members under the able guidance of their adviser. Page I-I

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THE COMMERCIAL CLASS THE Commercial Department is not the least of the activities at Mercy Academy. In this department one is trained for the duties in the business world. The touch system of typewriting is used and the Gregg system of shorthand. The scope of the training received in this department is the full and harmonious training of the body, the mind and the heart, and its distinctive feature is thorough- ness which aims at the complete development of the intellectual powers and the moral character. A most interesting and profitable form of activity in this class are the tests that the students take each month. Beginning in the first month of the school year with one, two, three, by Christmas the machines are keeping time with Sousa's VVashington March. Many awards have been received this year for accuracy and speed. The following have received pinsfor writing hfty words and over: Gwendolyn Daly, Mildred Castle, Frances Fitzgerald, Agatha Dormer, Edna Giger, Agnes McLaughlin, Felice Swisher, Eleanor Hall, and Marguerite Bryan. The following girls received pins for writing from forty to fifty words: Mary Malone, Bertha Mae Motzel, Rita McKay, Ruth Crow, Katherine Titterington. I 33

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Left to right-G. MITCHELL, M. 1. FRAIN, Secretary, M. L. BARR, M. CASTLE, President: E, BROADHEAD, A, DORMER, F. SWISHER QUILL AND SCRCLL VILL and Scroll, the National Honorary Society for High School journalists, was founded at the University of Iowa, April 10, 1926, by a group of teachers who wished to recognize and to reward High School Journalists. To become a member of this, the student must pass four tests: Rank in upper third of class, must have done distinctive work in High School journalism, recommended by supervisor and be ap- proved bv society's national oflicer designated for that duty. These members have qualified and have been received into this society. Honorable membership has been conferred upon Ruth frow, who has done outstanding work in Journalism this year. Page' 3 5