Mercy High School - Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli visited San Francisco in 1936 to offer Holy Mass at the Cathedral and to pay tribute to g yesterdays and today's pioneers. Three years later he became Pope Pius XII. During his pontihcate he encouraged the establishment of new high schools and universities to meet the needs of the world's peoples. irit nts, co- orkers . . . ggvering the memory of our late Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, in whose reign we weref and under whose glorious leadership we were educated, we gratefully conclude our with the challenging words he spoke to San Franciscans when he visited the s City 1936 as Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli: I have come to pay tribute to the Reverend Bishops, the zealous priests, the Holy Religious and devoted faithful of all this region,'because I know that in you there dwells the dauntless the pioneers, the spirit of the missionaries, of the Far of good heart, be true to your faith and in your ardent

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No longer a Mercy student, now a Mercy alumna. It is a remembered moment when a Senior crosses the Barrett hall stage during Awards Assembly, day before graduation, to receive from Mother General her inscribed membership in the Alumnae Association. unchanged Mercy in pires Sisters, San Francisco has changed from the gold-frenzied town of the 1850s to the interna- tionally known City of the 195053 but all her colorful history is in the SPIRIT of San Fran- cisco! Mercy education, too, has changed - from the simple religious instruction classes of the 1850s to the highly professional schools of the 1950sg but all its years of rich tradi- tion are in the SPIRIT of Mercy. San Francisco's modern' Mercy schools, housed in solidly beautiful buildings and D C equipped with the latest instructional facilities, have kept pace with the progress of the City and reflect the faith of her people and their sense of values.'New courses in the Mercy curriculum answer the revolutionary challenges of the 20th Century. In the activities of modern Mercy students there have been changes in social customs and recreational inter- ests, changes in fashions and fads . . . But there is something that our shining new Mercy' High School has in common withOur Lady of Mercy Academy on Rincon Hill, with old St. Brendan's, and with St. Mission: thari intangible but very real thing that we call the MERCY SPIRIT the truth and beauty of the and have it, by the tender ways. To that unchanged their co-workers in the ever the City of San Francisco, we

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