Mercy High School - Mercian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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ROSEMARY BRINKMAN All Saints Honor student: M.A.A. Knows the secret of satisfaction in doing all Things well: on the top alphabetically: on the top scholastically. V MARY BRUEN Our Lady of Good Counsel Civic club: M.A.A.: Dramatic club. A wild prairie rose . . . Winsome . . . affable . . . every sentence accented by a regal tilt of her head. HELEN BURKE Our Lady of Solace M.AA.: Sewing club: D.S.C.: German club, president. True blue yet never blue . . . studies with savage determination: considers it a point of honor to get everything done on schedule. LOIS BYRNES Pullman M.A.A.: Student council: Sewing club. A slow, suave voice that drifts pleasantly to the ear, In her unhurried way she is hurrying through high school, making four years in three. MARIE BYRNES St. Thomas Apostle M.A.A. A loyal supporter of Wrigley's . . . Well, you see it's this way . . . pet quotation of Marie's. Cheerful. MADELINE CALKIN St. Columbanus M.A.A.: Booster club: Civic club. Spirit of perennial youth . . . naive and inimitable humor . . . worries with a smile. MARY CANAVAN Honor student: M.A.A.: Clee club: Dramatic club: Mercian staff. A languid manner veiling an active mind . . . mourns the fact that she has never outgrown her twelve-year-old height. MARJORIE CANNON St. Catherine of Genoa M.A.A., vicefpresident: Student council, vice- president: Glee club: Dramatic club: Monogram club: basketball team. Snappy comebacks pop out with earnest throaty laughter . . . one of the most valuable players on the team . . . kind of skin advertisements rave about. ANNA RITA CAREY St. Gabriel Le Cercle Francais: M.A.A.: Civic club: D.S.C. When the tendency to study forsakes her, she sets wits on all fours and finds satisfaction in droll remarks. LORETTA CARROLL St. Sabina M.A.A.: D.S.C., president: Sewing club: Dramatic club: Glee club: V.C.C. Beautiful russet hair . . . loves cooking and dancing . . . or is it dancing and cooking? . . . accommodating with her car. l 's:..:a' 'a:::'- 'af-.,.-e' 'a::2'- in HB : : : : I I : : I : llll I P: ::-2 'E l-l . I-I l-I I-llll. I:I l.l l-llll- Ill :'I -'nn' 'll :Ig 'I l u '-L e , ,...,4g. ,. . 'I' I I I II! B'- : n In M ni nge DG 12 E Dr: n ra Q29 BBBBH In I IH ll IIB B Basin I' i m 'lil .Az J fr :i . 5 S : 4 U, 533 Bl uname: an E lima J' Ill I I R I Sl Ill IN ll E nl H ll 7' if 2 ' ii 5g.na ., :ti el l an E35 l: um HB Z: sa m i BB I B U Q5 EL 'HE ti .r B- l m H :B I I we :-- pgs . , ' I I is -5.- m -I ii Fa H If M.. In B rf In- :'-B 'Ig qs I L I -. 'H --: I ': ' ui' 'H mm E I :.:H-Q than I llll.. :rua ':::' E I E I ls I ll I- In -::: el I' I llllll -Z 5 :f: Q: 1 I: l...l - I -llll:- E I. I-I I I l.l :gn

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