Mother of Mercy High School - Mercywood Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Don Quixote, alias Marilyn Koch, waves her triumphant foil over three subdued captives Diane Elbert, .ludy King and Barbara Feltner as the Spanish ll students draiuatize a scene from the wellkuown play by Mignet de Cervantes, novelist and satirist. TOGAS. .SOMBREROS. .JACQUETTES Ancient Rome! Sparkling Spain! Gay France! Ita! Si Si! Oui Ouil Foreign countries, their customs and spirit, are topics ot discussion and interest to Mercians in every Latin, French and Spanish class. Declensions and conjugations are conquered easily by Caesar's followers, the Latin students. The first step ot exciting adventures in Paris, as all our mademoiselles know, is studying that wondrous language, French, Whether it's Madrid or Mexico they're hoping to see, senoritas Mercy-style say Ole tor Spanish, tortillas, color- tul sombreros, tiestas and siestas. Latin phrases in daily use are discussed by Carol Carney, Alice Long, Barbara Huth and .Ioan Tenoever while Carol Oliver indicates the phrases that are to be studied. 28

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XIATH BLEND IN HARMONY Sailing boats may be a little boy pastime but it can become a serious problem in Algebra II class. Kay Spitzmiller carefully reads the problem tor Nancy Spicer as Joanne Kathman and Barbara Gooding, with a pointer in her hand, interpret their graph. From Fahrenheit to centigrade and then back again go the basic math students Donna Massman, Harriet Lachtrup, Carol Hemsteger. Bisecting an angle is a simple process for Marilyn Torbeck and Mary Mahoney who don't go around in circles in geometry class. A minus times a minus makes a plus - c.p.c.t. - theorem 378. Confused? So are the minds of the bewildered Mercy Mathematicians plunging their way through algebra I 81 II, geometry and trig. Through mathematics, however, they are learning to understand the world in which we live. In redecorating a room, in making a good home-made pie, in tiguring a bowling score, yes, and in typing a letter, knowledge of math is essential. 27

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BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS Click, click, click, the efficient sounds of a business office are heard throughout Mercy's typing class as agile fingers skim over the typewriter keys and busy minds transcribe their shorthand notes into practice letters. Future secretaries who are Barbara Meyer, Arlene .laspers and Margie Meents are preparing for their careers in the busy world of business. Out of these classes will come businesswomen of tomorrow. ln typing, shorthand and bookkeeping classes, the girls become acquainted with two highly important words, neatness and accuracy. They learn the correct use of the typewriter, dictaphone, mimeograph and many other business machines. When the time comes, they will step out into the business world, ready to fulfill the large demand for dependable, efficient workers. Adding column to column and work to pleasure are, left to right, Clare Scherer, Mary Wellman, Patricia Daly and Shirley Buchel who are trying it the easy way by using the adding machines. Clear, clean miineograph copies are produced by Martha Metsch, Carol Kathman and Mary Grosse, as they have a practice session on the new duplicating machine in the commercial department, 29