Our Lady of Mercy High School - Mercedes Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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SHRINKAGE Did you hear what that Noreen C-mel 44 young oolCl9r1rlopber Columbur 1: toying? H e J trymg lo make ole: belzeze that the earth Lf round Who ever beard o :urls a tlamg9 Tim! .f what I Joy' That s the way rt was around 1490 before Co lumbus salled the ocean blue Amerlca was nonentlty And then Columbus set out wrth three small boats rn search of a new trade route to the West Indres and found rnstead a wonderful new land Before that drscovery the world was a small place rndeed Suddenly rt was a large vast ter rxfyxng mystery full of unexplored wonders A trmes advanced rt only took srx weeks to travel from the Old World to Amertca by boat Then came the arrplane and the trme was lessened December 8 1941' Amerrca enters the war' That was a surprrse to rome Amerrcans who strll belleved that Amerrca could go on tryxng to be an 1solat1on1st But others began to look forward wrth an optlmrstrc eye to the postwar problems Suddenly the world IS small agaxn It xs now a known fact that no place on the earth IS more than srxty hours from the nearest arrport The world that was once small and then large IS now small agam But there ns a drfference The smallness of that Hrst world was due to the dormant possrbxlx tles reachlng out before them of wh1ch the people then had no rdea But now rt IS small because of knowledge rn ventron research Let s pray that llau world mrnuteness w1ll lead to world afhmty that by be mg closer 1n trme we may become closer rn sprrlt true amrcable nerghbors brothers rn Chrrst 8 PEN SWORD Whnp up an edrtorral' Mme 5-rymezdw 44 exclaxms the chref What wrll I wrrte about? questnons the worrred assrstant me Anythrng you want to The pen rs mrghtxer than the sword you know Hmm' I wonder what she meant by that What s that? You re rrght' Wars have been won by the pen' Why else would the word propaganda apply so well to war stones? A book was one of the causes of the Crvrl War? Oh now you are klddmg' Have I ever heard of Uncle Toms Cab1n9 Was that by Harrnet B Stowe? Sure I know the book You mean that helped to start 9 I see now It dxd arouse the people drdnt rt? And the Popes Encyclrcals If people would only read and analyze them there would be less xer than the sword Now I belreve xt' Imagme then the effect that a schools paper and magazrne have on the student body' What portron of hrmself the wr1ter rnjects rnto hrs wrrtmg so does he sway a reader to his way of reasonrng Does not then a school s publr catnons help to nourxsh the school sp1r1t7 Cannot a school publ1cat1on consequently fan the embers mto a glowrng flame? Yes most emphatlcally yes' But even rf rt causes the flame rt cannot keep the student body from dousrng xt wrth water' The maternal can be wrltten but what good IS It lf the students do not bother to read lt' Are you a can t be bothered 7 If so how about drscoverrng what your publrcatrons are all about? If not pray God that you keep the ember glovsmg' So the pen rs mrghtrer than the sword 9 Hmm' Yep I guess xt rs Here s your edrtorxal chref' N . .. . . - ., U V I f . U l . . . rrN0 ff I ' rr 1 ' f ' , ' ' 1 A . H ,, . . , . . . er . It - H u ,, ' .H ff I ,ll Q . I . 'H . a . . . 7 , ll , ! ' YI I ' - I Y . 7 I l .. ,, . , . . , . , I I . . J - 1 1 ' - - , . s . . . , ' . blood shed on this earth's soil. The pen . . . might- , . . - , , o . A I , ' a v , . . ' ' , . . . . . a . 4 . 7 ' 7 . , .- , . . . . . ' . . 7 , ' I . lv ' 1 ' . 1 L , , - . , . . . ' , . . . . ' . y 1 ' ' y . , ' , - 7- I . . . ,, . . . ,, . . . 1 . . . Y y . . I . . , . ' .. , , ..

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N EJZIUVZQZZQI rfpmkmg N-4 An advent of rnternatronal tolerance would foster a lastrng peace Frrst of all though there must be a total exrt of contrnental racral slaughter So often A GREAT GIFT Glam: Bofaztr 44 tolerance rs mrsrepresented' Today especrally we look around at the people of the world lightrng and hatrng each other and wonder Where rs tolerance? Tolerance rs not acceptrng exrl people and srt uatrons but rt rs understandrng the weaknesses and forbles of human nature Srn rs rntolerable srn ners are understandable Can a man honestly be rntolerant wrthout hatrng hrmself? For each man more or less rs a common sharer of the misery of the world It rs an unhappy man who rs not a tolerant man he rs a great soul who rs a tolerant soul Yes rndeed rt rs a great rft tolerance force whrch grasps us causes us to lose con trol of our emotrons makes us openly reveal what we feel rn our rnner most hearts when we want to conceal rt? Are we weak sentrmentalrsts or are we just lackrng strength? orephme Agnello 44 We Senrors ask these questrons But no matter how we try to analyze the cause of our unpredrct able actrons the fact remams that our Senror class rs no drfferent from any other Senror class that has ever graduated from Mercy We too have Cher rshed tenacrously all the last trmes srnce the frrst day of school rn September we too must be envel oped by that wave of sadness whrch accompanres the strarns of Goodbye Dear Mercy Hugh w too must experrence that tradrtronal feelrng of loss at graduatron But now Senrors let us analyze the srtuatron not wrth our hearts but wrth our mmds Let us rcgard our farewell not as an end but as a begrn nrng the begrnnrng of a lrfe rn whrch to rndoctrr nate the world wrth the rdeals whrch we have formed at Mercy How gratrfyrng to know that we may be an rnstrument rn grvrng a lrttle brt of Mercy to the world For four years we have been grven so much We cannot express our gratrtude rn words S0 t remarns for us now to express rt rn actron lrvrng all that we have learned XVrth our farewell we also add thank you thank you for just berng Mercy Yes we are weak sentrmentalrsts but who wrll defy that rntangrble force whrch causes us to be sad at lcavrng Mercy? Who wrll defy the Sprrrt of Mercy? She s the lrttle shoe clerk rn the brg department store she s the college G I GIRLS Elame K0l?J7lIk 44 campus she s a brown eyed clear headed mrss one of the mrllrons of grrls they ve left behmd them She s the grrl whose cheery srncere letters place a whrstle on hrs lrps and a rrght feelrng rn hrs heart Shes the grrl who preserves a womans symbolrc vrrtues of purrty and modesty Whrle others of her sex grve rn to coarse vulgarrty she walks wrth Chrrst when they lower therr rdea of a good trme to satrsfy therr anrmal passrons she remams wrth Chrrst The trmes may be fast and loose but her footage never slrps Constantly she keeps rn mrnd the krnd of mother he wants for hrs chrldren And she trres to prepare for her role trres to develop a deeper understand mg a greater feelrng of compassron a cheery and sincere warmth about her Shes the grrl he left behmd the woman hes comrng back to She s hrs fulfillment of a real G I sweetheart 7 I C O . . A, . . l l 7 , . . , . . . - . , . , . 3 . 5 . ' , , ' - , i 7 ' 7 -v , I 7 1 '-' . J , Y , . . , . U 7 , N A . 'A . . . . ' , . a . . v U . . , I 1 Q PASSING IT ON What is the intangible freshman on a big I ' 7 . 7 l ' 1 ' . 9 1 . . . , , , , . , . . . i , . . . , . - Q . . 7 3 . , , ' . . 3 1 5 ' . ' . I . .. , . in ea . , . . , 3 - I , . . , , 7 7 5 I ' Y . 1 a

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HAT a Sunday, you moan, listlessly wiping the perspiration from your face with another Kleenex from the box you have been carrying around with you. Mom, want me to do anything? you whisper up the stairs hoping the answer ll be no if that lady hears you at all And from the coolness of her room Mom s voice drifts down No dear not right now O K QAh'j You wander into the kitchen and glance at the clock just two Dad has switched the radio dial and the mellow voice of oseph Cotten on Ceiling Unlimited drifts into the roorn but even that does not cool you off In fact and you blush to admit it it raises your temperature a few degrees your nose straight against the screen door. Two flies are doing the same thing. A car door slams and Mr. Heptner, two doors down, calls out Say, Ma, did you put in the dill pickles? You can hear Mrs. Willis wailing 'Oh XVillie what did Mother tell you about getting your suit dirty' Shame on you' And Hector and Her bert Mundoon your next door pests become objects of your concern as they bounce around a badminton net You expect either one of them to keel over with sun stroke any minute Boy are they tan' you sigh Tan? Tan' Thats it' ust what you need Your mind s made up What would do you more good than a nice restful sunbath? X ou begin to dash to your room but remember ing something you read once in a book you glide Q A ball of yi e a girl Herlov and Herberz Pardon ur B1rd1e' EJPECZHZQ1 on az Sulrry Day ELAINE KOLESNIK 44 XVhy do August Sundays have to be so stickily hot you wonder not caring whether stickily is a word or not For it is one of those muggy days as the bee that almost stung you You wander about not knowing what to do with yourself If you sit down you stick to the oilcloth kitchen chair pads if you walk around you get hotter I m yust a molten mass of flesh and bones you Wal In desperation you yell Hey Mom uba can o Oh I dont know dear Why dont you go to a show or something? Go to a show' just the thought of it makes you think of being shut up in a vacuum and you sit down weak Restless you saunter to the back porch and press up QAccording to the eminent author of the book gliding in hot weather is a very wise procedure as the smooth motion does not entice the heat which Haxmg reached the head of the stairs you de cide that gliding is an art in itself especially if you re doing it to the tune of I Got Rhythm as played by the Ceiling Unlimited orchestra Mom where s my halter? You know the red one' I m gonna take a sunbath Why dear I dont know I think its in the clothes closet rn moth balls though it may be down in the cabinet with the bathing suits or maybe you put it away in one of your drawers Now let me think But you are already in your stove like fin other words hotj clothes closet pulling out drawers looking beneath dresses and even scanning the floor for your halter 9 S 1 Y 3 1 . .. an , s I l I 1 H s a 1 ' 1 l r 7 ,, . . , . . . , . - s x 9 ' ' 1 r . . . ' O C I I I , 7 . . ' . Y E . , , , . ,, . . ,, . 7 . . y . I . V . hot as a Harry james' ride on the trumpet and close is more prone to bother people who bob along.j . V. . , - 9 ' . . 7 A ' 5 Y 7 . , . l 1 s Q 1 ' I d ?,, . , 4 . . . , , . . . ' , . 7 Y , v 3 . , a ' V A I 1 . 7 Y '