Our Lady of Mercy Academy - Oloma Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Cut Lad of Fatima Club Father Ferris Guay, Diocesan Director of Voca- tions, inaugurated the Our Lady of Fatima Club here at the Mount in January. Its members intend to honor the Blessed Mother by promoting voca- tions. To participate in this form of Catholic Action, they pray daily for vocations as well as for a knowledge of their own state in life, and they receive Holy Communion every week. The first activity of the new club was a visit to Saint Mary's Novitiate, followed by Benediction in the novitiate chapel. Mission Club Mary Lou Ritchie, Patricia O'I-ianlon, joan Daly, Leslie Mulviliill, Donna Marie Gagliardi, Rosemary Berardino, Marian Pillart, joan Welling, Carol Brant, and Georgia Ann Pfolil packing Christmas boxes. 1 iw The basic interest of the Mission Club is to aid those who are working where the light of faith glows feebly. The entire student body is eligible for membership. Students respond generously to the Club's drives and projects used to direct at- tention to this worthy cause.

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Senior Book Club members discuss latest booksgMary Mar- garet Thel, Shirley Mullen, Ann McCreary, Ann Welch, Louise Adams, Virginia Murphy, Ann Byrnes, Kathleen Mona- han, Ann Marie Durning, Patricia Marinaro, Mary Lou Ritchie, Ethel Ifdlis, Kay Hughes, Audrey DeMarLini, Rose- mary Berardino, Dolores Olsavick, Joan Welling, Marian Pillart, Marguerite Finn, Maxine Grebosky, and joan LaValley. Book Club - Bookworms ll The Bookworms, under the direction of Sister M. Victor, help to keep the library functioning smoothly. Members, taken from the freshman and sophomore classes, volunteer to work during study periods. At almost any hour you can find these cheerful girls'busy in the library, working at the desk, shelving books, Hling, typing, compiling reading lists, and shellacking books. With Betty McShane leading the way, the Book Club is completing another very successful year. To carry out their purpose of stimulating interest in good books, members review many of the new volumes in the library. Once again, the Book Club published a Christmas book list containing sug- gestions for buying books as gifts for both children and adults. For their February assembly, the Club invited Mr. James E. Arthur, president of the Catholic Cultural Centre of Pittsburgh, to speak on Catholic Press Month. Bookworms: Ofhcers and handbook committee-Rosem il arie Roccasano, Yvonne Thel, Maureen Brett, Rita Barrett, Car- roll First, Johanna Leech, Ann Jones, Judy Troy.

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In the convent reception room, examining vocational litera- ture, are Betty Jane Levine, Mary Ellen Donaghue, Betty McShane, Mary Pctrilli, Jacqueline Campbell, Pat Duffy, Carol Christopher, Arlo Ringer, Lee Brice, Nancy Feeney, and Sue Murdoch. Members setting up an issue of Terliary Topics, the Third Order paper-Virginia Murphyg Mary Petrilli, secretaryg Third Crder of Saint Francis The Mount Mercy Unit of the Third Order of Saint Francis strives constantly to plan bi-monthly meetings on a stimulating and practical scale. This Tertiary Way of Life embraces lay people who desire to come closer to God by really living their Catholicity. Wearing scapular and cord and saying Twelve Our Father's, Hail Mary's, and Gloria's daily com- prise 'the habit and ofiice of these nineteen Ter- tiaries. Connie Caley, prefectg Patricia Marinaro, vice-prefectg Fran- cine Dugan, treasurerg and Carolyn Wohleber.