Mount St Mary Academy - Mercian Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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LOIS ANN WILKIE Born Iune 7, 1928, in Memphis, Tennessee Entered from Mount St. Mary's Iunior High, 1942 Vice-President of Class '43, '44, Latin Club ,432 Program Chairman of Latin Club '44, Glee Club '43, '44, '45, '46, Chaminade Club '43, '44, '45, '46, Commercial Club '45, '46, Bio-Chem Club '45, '46, Press Club '45, '46, President of the Dramatic Club '46, Feature Editor of the Mount ' 6, Co-Editor of the MERCIAN '46, National Honor Society '46, Quill anld Scroll '46, Vice-President of the French Club '46, English Club President '46. She is a queen--more wonderful than any that have bloomed on Orient thronesf' FLORENCE VIRGINIA WEEKS Born May 2, 1928, in Wynne, Arkansas Entered from Pulaski Heights Iunior High, Ianuary, 1943 Latin Club '44, Commercial Club '45, Bio-Chem Club '46, B-Square Club '46, English Club '46, National Honor Society '46. Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts. ADDIE WRIDER Bom November 19, 1928, in El Dorado, Arkansas Entered from Holy Redeemer School, September, 1942 Re-entered from El Dorado High School, September, 1945 Sodality '43, ,44, '45, '46, Latin Club '46, Commercial Club '46, English Club '46, Our Lady of Mercy Chapter of the Legion of Mary '46. Flowers spring to blossom where she walles . . . PATRICIA THEREAS WYLES Born May 27, 1927, in St. Louis, Missouri Entered from Little Rock High School, September, 1943 Sodality '43, '44, '45, '46, Commercial Club '45, '46, Bio-Chem Club '46, I English Club '46. To-know is nothing at all, To imagine is everything. CATHERINE ZALOUDEK Born December 3, 1928, in North Little Rock, Arkansas Entered in September, 1942, from St. Mary's, North Little Rock Sodality '43, '44, '45, '46, Latin Club '43, '44Q National Honor Society '45, '46, English Club '46, Commercial Club '45, '46, Vice-President of Our Lady of Lourdes Chapter of Mary ,452 Secretary of Our Lady of Lourdes Chapter of the Legion of Mary '46. She bears unconsciously the spell of loueliness

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IEAN RITA SWEENEY Born August 24, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois Transferred from Mercy High School, Chicago, Illinois, September, 1944 Sodality '45, Prefect of Sodality '46, Latin Club '45, Commercial Club '45, ' ' ' f En lish '46, Glee Club '45, '46, Bio-Chem Club 45, Secretary o g Club '46, Dramatic Club '46, Press Club '46, News Editor of the MERCIAN '46, Victory Stamp Salesman '46, Our Lady of Mercy Chapter of the Legion of Mary '45, '46. Thou sweet little flower with the dark brown eye, That peepest from the bank so modestly. 4 IMELDA ANN THOMEY Born Iuly 22, 1928, in North 'Little Rock, Arkansas d from St Patrick's School North Little Rock, Arkansas, Entere . , September, 1942 Sodality '43, '44, '45, '46, Latin Club '43, '44, ,451 Commercial Club '45, '46, Iunior Class Treasurer '45, English Club '46, English Club Secre- tary '46, Bio-Chem Club '45, '46. A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, and most divinely fair. GRETCHEN ROSE VOGLER Born Iuly 25, 1928, in Little Rock, Arkansas Entered from St. Edward's School, September, 1942 Sodality '43, '44, '45. '46, Class Treasurer '43, '46, Latin Club '43, Com- mercial Club '45, '46, Bio-Chem Club '46, Le Cercle Francais '45, English Club '46, Maid to Bazaar Queen '46, Basketball '45, '46. She'.r all my fancy painted her, She'.v lovely, .vhe's divine. MARY HELEN THOMAS Born Iuly 20, 1928, in Conway, Arkansas Entered from St. Mary's Iunior High School, September, 1942 Soclality '43, '44, '45, '46, Latin Club '43, '44, Latin Club President.'45, Class Secretary '43, Commercial Club '46, Bio-Chem '45, National ' ' N ' l Honor Society President '46, Chaminade I Honor Society 45, atxona ' ' ' - f h Sale of Victory Bonds and Stamps Club 43, 44, 45, Chairman o t e '46' Maid to Rocket Homecoming Queen '46, Rocket Cheer Leader '46, 'll d Scroll ' 6, Press Club '45, Vice-President of Press Club '46, Qui an 4 Co-Editor of the Mount '46, ME1zc1AN Staff '46. Dear little girl, with the golden heart, You radiate love like Cupid'.r own dart. TILLIE TAYLOR Bom December 2, 1928, in Little Rock, Arkansas Transferred from Gage Park High, Chicago, Illinois, November, 1944 Commercial Club '45, '46, French Club '46, English Club '45, '4 Bio-Chem Club '45. I see her tripping where the bright stream: play, Happy as the daisies that dance on ber way. 6

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Glass XYAY infix IN '42, sixty-two Freshmen rather timidly hurried from one class to another: of course, a great many other things happened in '42, like the Fall of Corregidor and the London Blitz, but such events were of minor importance to the Freshmen. Getting init- iated into life at S.hI.A. was a job and a half but well worth all our trouble. That first year at the Niount, for most of us, was a whirl of learning the right names to go with the right faces, conjugating Latin verbs, making x and y equal something, pitching a basketball through a basket, tuning our ears for the right bell, and in general, trying to be like our upperclassmen. Evidently our Freshmen days hadn't discouraged too many of us, because September of our Sophomore year brought most of us back with smiles on our faces to start another year of intellectual research. We were older, more dignihed and definitely belonged on St. Niarvs Campus. There must have been a plentiful supply of vitamins that year, even if food was rationed, for we topped nearly every selling campaign that came along. By the end of our Sophomore year we were well on our way to being young ladies and had no more serious thoughts in our heads than boy friends, skirts and sweaters, and writing letters. As Iuniors, there was no doubt about our being full-fledged belles. We were discovering talents we didn't think we possessed and we were learning to use them. Our first days of frantically trying to get a few lines printed in the Mount and writing an editorial every night will stick with us as a reminder that the pen is mightier than the sword and much harder to manage. Something new was added to campus activities- the Queen's Ball, which met with our enthusiastic approval. Our main topic for noon-hour gossip was Hi. tory shoe rationing, V-mail, a skinny guy called Sinatra and a freckle-nosed one called Van Iohnson, and the new song, Don't Fence zlffe ln . Giving the Seniors a picnic at Willow Springs caused quite a few head- aches but inspired a Iunior program to raise money, which turned out swell, even if we do have to say so. When we left for the holidays 'last spring, six of us were in the National Honor Society, eight, Press Club, four, members of the basketball team, and others of us held various positions in clubs and other activities. We came back last fall to Finish our twelfth year of school and to be thefirst class to graduate here under peace-time conditions in five years. We were Seniors and the world was ours. Being Seniors, we had more responsibilities and more privileges-cam didates for Bazaar queen came from our class, as well as the queens and maids for the Subiaco-Catholic High homecoming game. We sent a Illount to press nearly every month, tramped the highways and by-ways looking for patrons for the MERci.ax and worked on the MERCIAN, itself for hours. Most of the clubs had a president and accompanying officers from our group. We shouted with joy when our rings came and posed for a picture at Shradersf We danced away the hours at a ball dedicated to us: we were feted at the Alumnae Banquet, Class Day, and the Iunior-Senior picnic. Our years have been long but they have been happy, because so much went into making each day better and more complete. Our brief history is a story many besides ourselves have helped to write and to those who remain here after we leave and to those who have gone before us, we owe a debt of gratitude. Our tears on graduation night will not be tokens of fear or regret, for our future can hold nothing too big or too frightening for us who have learned religion, honor, cheerfulness, and knowledge at St. 1N4ary's. -I. Ross