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

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pleasant hallucinations say theres a word for youj a manufactured product of that sauerkraut and ice cream you had before retiring or you might be on the Paramount movie set of French men s Creek a seventeenth century novel by Daphne du Maurier Gosh rationing has even gotten into the hair of motion picture producers They re obliged to re frain from showing an over abundance of food in modern time movies But can they help it if there were no such thing as food rationing in the seven teenth century? Ah and how you formal dance lowers recall the pleasure driving ban' Remember? Positively I would not go on the bus in a for mal if you paid me a hundred dollars I wouldnt either But gee Ding a ling aling' Hello jane? Yes ane this is Bill Oh H1 Bill how are you? Im fine ane I wonder if you would like to go to the Senior Dance with me next Friday? Oh Bill I d love to O K I ll call for you then at 8 30 I ll be ready Thanks for calling Bill Bye e So with heart all a flutter you make ready for the big night your new Georgette gown which makes you feel like a dream Qyou hopej your hair shining and wavy with just that natural look you lose your sophisticated evening wrap which Sis let you borrow lust for tonight lying ready on the bed Ewen your kid brother has a rather wolfish look in his eyes as he wheeews Say boy that aint hay' Oh Tommy you say flushed but pleased for heaven s sake Thcn the doorbell rings and Bill walks in pro ducmg flowers for your hair Gee everything is pcrfect and Bill looks pleased too You have vis ions of yourself alighting from Bills Dads car and gliding across the dance floor under Bill s gurd ing arm Then Bills woice breaks through your reverre Are you ready ane? Allset you smile Tommy opens the front door and out you go mid shouts of Haxe a good time' and Don t stay out too late' and Watch out for your new dress' But your departure couldnt be complete without words j So living up to that indescribable reputa tion th it little brothers hawe Tommy looks out and babbles much to your discomfiture Oh boy mie what a moon' When Mother realizes your embarrassment she hushcs Tommy as you wait for Bill to open the door of his Dad s car Instead Bill keeps right on walking clown the street Oh well maybe he parked the car at the and then it comes to you with a yolt painful but oh so true You forgot to re member darn it that gasoline was rationed and that you would hawe to solicit help from the R T C fRochester Transit Corporation, Rationing again' How tan you get out of it? Mufzc Hath Chdfmi Muna hath charm! ru eet and rare That make me hmld raffle! rn the azr I amy myrel light and rmall Sometzmer though grace ul and tall But when I am drunk wzth zanzty The mzurf flop: .ro :uddenly And I am le t altering on my eel Oh IlIl0XIt'dfI?7g murrc' AGNES CADOGAN 44 16 Y 3 y i ' I i ' , !,, V Q , 'II I ' 1' 7 7 7 I 1 I . l I , Y . Y if is ai: as: . 7 ' I U ,J 'H Q y lm .N ll .I- Hello. the addition of Tommy's carbon dioxide fspoken U .H i L I I , .IJ 7 I I I 'I' - Y I' Y 1 . ', ' , ji ', ,, , . , , . , U y . . . ., ' : . , , 'By ' - ' , , . - - , - - lil-.i ' , 1 f A f ' , , ,K f D . . I f f I U f - 3

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Thoughts Tlomele AYCH t Goodman Rgtlgned KATHLEEN ZIMMER 44 ATION points? Flooey' So the first thing you quibble about 1S the pronunciation Do you pronounce it with a long a as in ray of the sun? Or do you pronounce it with a short :1 as in rash judgment? Hey wait a minute' Thats igamst the eighth commandment' Oh well we re only using it as an example Where were we now? Oh yes pronunciation of r a t 1 o n Lets see novx ray shun rash un ray shun rash un gee the only syllable I m sure of is un and in French you pronounce un like uhn to gether with a nasal twang so that it comes out in the form of a grunt or something like that Let s add this new sound and see what happens Ray unn not so good Rash un not too bad Maybe if we turned the letters around hars hun Tarzan uses ration points Leather and hides being what they are he must haye to scrape pretty hard to keep himself properly clothed Look let s just follow the path of least assistance I mean resistance You say it the way you like and I ll say it the yxayl like Wheeeew' At last thats settled for is it? If you re a life loymg fan you can always find little humorous quips sandwiched in between the tragedies of war In this war rationing and ration points haye been the obyect of many a wiseacre s guffaxys Take for instance the time Mother and I went to purchase a pair of shoes I like this pur Mother All right we ll take them How much are they Eddie? QEdd1e s the clerk, These are S4 50 Here you are Thank you Do you hay e your No 18 coupon? Oh dear we forgot to bring it I must have it before the shoes are taken from the store Vifhat time do you close' 8 30 I see What time is it now? This l said bravely 8 28 Oh dear what a mess ust two minutes before closmg time Saturday night urgent need for shoes no st imp Well uh perhaps uh perhaps I could run home and get it This l sud very bras ely That would be all right I knew it would That s what I was afraid of surely vyalk in a 2 minute Jamboree of puffs vsind and long strides? I did Guess what happened? I brought the wrong stamp' Of course there are some people like the follow ing young lady luc enough to have nothing to worry about fthe OPA does that for them, Question d as to whether she ever experienced any humorous incidents with her ration points she very definitely replied Oh I never use them My goodness Either fortune has her by the hand or the OP A ll know why If you eyer see before you a supper table sagging under the weight of a huge freshly broiled sirloin surrounded by smoking bo ir s heads and huge por tions of baked salmon ice cream and every kind of pastry delicacies imaginable you re probably having 15 9 l Y 2 I . 1 . I4 V Q Y S Y Y L' 1 ny, . , , . . . . , . . . t . X . A y y , , .. I . . . , . I I 7 J ' - - - - ' ' I 7 ll - I - 7 - : ' 1 I ' L a l s ' s ' A - L . 4 . - l ' ' I I A .y it 4 4 YA ' . L . V e ' ' -- L . I g - U W 1 4 ' 1' y V . ' . ' ' ' an ' ' . ' W . ' W K Q ' I. . ,,, A A -i ' 1 I . L , L. 4 That sounds almost like Tarzan. Say, I wonder if Have you ever attempted to do a 10-minute lei- .V V V . . V , . . . ' A K v l B . 7 D' . , I n S , V , . - V. , V . . . . . V 7 7 ' . . . , . . 7 Q ' . t ' l l , ae ek wk as I 4 L u H a Y l ' a l 9 . , 1 l , - . . , I ' 7

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ANCY CRAWFORD sat rn the drm twx lxght of her room burlecl deep rn phllosophrcal books How was she goxng to pass that exam when she hadn t studred all year? And darn rt' She had to have xt to graduate oo Suddenly through the quxet ness of the house ffor Mom wasnt home from the Red Cross yetj she heard the door bell rrng Her brothers foot steps clattered unwrllrngly across the krtchen floor to answer rt Then she heard hrm clamberrng up the steps two at a trme Nancy' he called Here s a package for you Careful rmmy she warned rn a brg srsterly fashron The stxcker says Handle with Care She looked at the package from London Eng land Her heart qurckened rmmy was exasperated at the delay Oh hurry up Nance Her nervous fingers undxd the strmg removed the brown outer wrapprng and the cardboard from the msxde Heck' exclarmed rmmy Its only a record He turned to leave rn a peculxar masculme fashlon but returned Can I have the stamps Nance? Bllly Wllker son sard he d trade me one from Latvra lf I could get hrm one from London Sure jrmmy Take them She handed hxm the wrappmgs and he left Nancy went to her recorder and put rt on Then she lay down on the bed As the frrst melodrous stralns poured out she thought of the flrst trme she had seen hrm It was New Year s afternoon and Nancy was staylng wxth her wealthy cousrns Alma and eff ln thenr Long Island home for the Chrxstmas holrdays Alma was havrng a brg party for serv ncemen wxth a band and all the works Off rn one corner of the huge ballroom sat a young man rn c1v1l1an clothes At trmes he was alone then he was surrounded by a crowd of laugh mg people But he never left hrs corner to dance As Nancy flrtted from one parr of arms to an other her glance fell often on the personable young man and every trme she drd he seemed to be watchmg her But she couldnt help looking at CINY ICS It was gettrng late nearly mrdnrght and stxll he hadnt stxrred Nancy was at the moment lamentmg her popularrty for she was dancrng wrth a young saxlor who stated freely that he used to be a pro Used to be rs rrght thought Nancy She was bemg thrown around the floor lrke an exhxbxtronrst Frnally someone cut rn and Nancy nearly collapsed rn hrs arms You looked as rf you needed a change said a vorce above her She looked up mto the eyes that had been watchmg her all evenrng and her face was Yes she thought Onlyarecord a trxfle flushed A Inp to New York a love a an a record nd the Angels Smeg Gnly A Waltz Could Do It NOREEN CAREY 44 . 1 , . I Y , t . ' , J , .. , J. ,,, . . . . . - It must be from jerryf she thought to herself. him. After all, he was the only man there in J' . A ' V . I