Mount Mercy Academy - Mercienne Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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Music is a universal language which appeals to the mind and to the heart. If a student joins the choral club during her leisure time, she receives in return the benefits of a better under- standing of the cultured use of her voice. With a string and a bow, many enthusiastic youths put their talent to work in the development of Hun- garian rhapsoclies and Bohemian dances, in hope that someday they might become another jascha Heifetz. A pianist uses her fingers to tell stories about the ideals and emotions of the great composers. C. Cotintltss hours ot tiitsonie drill is the daily sehedule of beginning musicians. They must inaster seales. last or slow, loud or soft, in triplets or quintuplets. ln shoit. they have to conquer every obstaele of that stulaborn leevboarel. Hut patience and te-liuin have their rewartlf' Collins tells her piano sisters, as she' gures out a difficult passage from one of the masters. M. Herlihy, M, Carlson. C. Leary, M. Gorman, M, A, W'alz and A, Jensen willingly entertain with violin and cello, Blusie' pupils have their recompense when an opportunity presents itself to enehant listeners at programs and reeitals. ll. -Iovee' fat the piano, and her eoinpanions. among xvhoin are K Bowen and K. Mtfiowan. know the ioy of interpreting the nuanees of tone and rhythm. and they learn much from con- tact with the great elassies bl. Robinson fextrenie right, is a zealous aspiring organist.

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The Art I Claws mrriu tin sucli tlivcrsitiml activities .rs painting multi-colored angel wings for Szlin Cxrzfirls .mtl clssigning mom interiors in the modern style. A tlistinguislud viuitur of the Art Mart, Sister M. Jeanne, OSF., demonstrates to S. Hoskins, M, Lawson and H. Driscoll thc intricate art of wood engraving. Y 1 H. Driscoll, M. A. Fwy .intl S. P.1rl-r enjoy tinting senior purtruits. A Sunny f.1ll tl.1p timrlcttl thc firSt liuld trip tif the Art M.trt, At Rcvcrcnd Mwtlirrx lllklldiltlll. tlir- antliuxmstif 'l'.inzx lm-.t:tlt.l tlit Mtrry lim tn Rnmiry Hill. Herr tlic r-wllrgt-R f.lmin.1ting Art Dcrrirtrmnt. lit-.ttlt.l lu Sixtrr M. .lm-.1nnc. FLYL'.llLxl tl.lHr'N in lift slxvttlirrig, L'l.l'.lIll1L'N. fmlii-tri-rluigri .intl waning, ii, fy .'Jf v'.,.. .r' .4 . -v ' O v vi I D I,-L,,,.ff . .4 Q A I

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