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

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JU T A FLAG If It Womb Ir? GLORIA BOSAITS 44 I 4111 .fy mtl l il M A flyer way up rn the arr where rt s so free and glorrous where nothrng matters no law exceptrng that of God and nature I love to fly lrke to look down love to look up and rf I reach hrgh enough I can hear the angels srng I sard I lrke to look down guess Im more or less thrnkrng of the days before the war when I was just a student flyer lookrng down at the fields homes and lrttle people hustlrng around people I knew and loved When I was mad at the world Id hop rn my plane and scoff at these thrngs lrttle specks the war s taught me a lot those specks are rndr vrduals Every trme I release a bomb now rn the alren skres that I must fly I thrnk of that krd who for one moment could consrder them specks and pause for a prayer of forgrveness forgrveness for myself and those whom rt rs my fate to destroy I used to lrke to fly partrcularly oxer the ball park over our flag wavrng so proudly thrs thought keeps knockrng at my head when a mrssron rs tough You see that flag wavrng over the ball park rs what I m hghtrng for for the Hot Dog man for the lrttle krds sneakrng rn for that woman who pokes her husband at the most errcrtrng part of the game for that norsy catcher who tells the umprre to shut up for the excrted announcer and the bald headed man rn the fifth row who caught the ball for the Home Team Funny thrngs happen as you rrde above the world more queer thrngs when antr arrcraft tire rs poundrng at you many a trme back from a mrssron Id pass by that ball field and hear the people srngrng so proudly The Star Spangled Banner rn trrumph shall wave before the game so I d cry Arnt that my P1'1V1l6gC7 Sure Im a funny guy a tough Amerrcan and I love my flag I know my country arnt perfect crooked polrtrcrans graft prejudrce but when I thrnk of these curses I also thrnk of that world we re flghtrng for that wrll extrngursh them They re not Amerrca not what our flag stands for the rnvrncrble red whrte and blue uh uh they re clouds that keep the star spangled banner from comrng forth rn rts radrance Its agreed Im a funny guy but just one more thought those un Amerrcan Amerrcans can never stop our flag from wavrng over that ball park A flag rs a sacred emblem of the sprrrt of rts country and Im one guy who wants to see flags wavrng over ez ery country a symbol of beautrful thrngs lrfe freedom and happrness and over all those multr colored flags just lrke rarnbows a pot of gold the gurdrng one rts symbol a strarght cross of Chrrst -Af if if if me 1' me -A 1- at if -A- , Q 1 l , I i . ' . ' . F . ' lil . ' . . 15 A I 5 ' l ' . Xl 1 . ' . 1 . . . sliyllwjxwxs but most of all to keep that flag waving over the ball park! ' Ofiwy X . . - . t . . I 1 ' ' rf , . . ,, X? I fm . . ,, , . j ff X 9, . . u , t - . ' VI -Q . . , .

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AST nnght I sa1d a prayer and as I knelt there lookmg up mto the star studded heavens I began rememberxng remem berlng snlly llttle things that only a mother would remember unimportant to the world but I knew I-Ie would understand I remembered a curly headed baby who laughed so happily when he first found those tmy lnfant oes the dellght h1s first discovery gave hum I remembered a chubby little boy who knelt by hrs crib mumblmg Now I lay me down to sleep so tlred and so lovable As I watched it seemed that each one of those brrllrant stars brought back another blazing memory and another blmdxng tear to my eye All the mem ones came flooding towards me I could do nothing to stop them and so I let them come It was like a movle a movie of the m1nd I saw Tommy fallmg off the high stool with a flstful of my freshly made coolues nn his hand and such a guilty look on his face marchmg down the street with hrs newspaper soldier s hat cocked over comnng home from school that day wrth h1s first black eye so ashamed and pxtrful that I wanted to s1ng h1m a lullaby proudly sporting his first long pants playmg h1s first football game all tousled and muddy but del1r1ous with yoy joy m h1s youth h1s whole childhood came float mg back ahve agam but rt dldnt stop there I remembered the awful reallzatlon of Tommy s growing up The boys were callmg h1m Tom then he even washed h1s neck daily sans 1nv1tat1on I could st1ll see hlm on the stage the nrght he was graduated with honors from high school It Wear the N zgfn' Before Mother Love Could Do It In Wbzcb A Mother Pmyf for Courage SOPHIE BARNETT 44 tall and unafraid so terrxfymgly mnocent rn the ways of the world He began to thmk ahead then and I recalled the mghts we planned planned his college education his life his life as a surgeon I saw Susie his best glrl and Tom walking down the street fun loving carefree on their way to the movies or to the corner drugstore for a coke But they couldn t foresee they didn t know no one did And how could I forget the night of December 7th when Tommy called to say he was enhstmg for actlve duty wlth the MHFIHCS7 Finally the last scene of this movie flashed up above It was the last day I saw hrm handsome and self confldent as a Marme lieutenant for he had gone to O C S because of his preliminary col lege trammg As I stood there at the statnon my cyes brrmmmg over with tears as he smiled down at me and w1ped them away I could still hear hrm saying Dont worry about me Mom Ill be o k ust keep the home fires burnmg w1th your love and I ll be back some day I ll be a surgeon and I ll marry Susie and-oh Mom Ill do everythmg we ve planned Keep praylng thats all And he was gone That s what I was remembering what I Ind to remember Id prayed prayed hard and last nlght I prayed hardest of all O Lord help me Gne me the courage the faxth the strength that I ll need ln these months to come when everythmg I do or say wlll be so 1m portant But I must get ready now I ve got to be at the station in tlme for Tommy s tram Yes Tommy IS comxng home for keeps w1th an honorable dis charge and the Purple Heart Tommy lost h1s arm hrs surgeon s arm on Guadalcanal 21 I , - . 1 7 Y . . . ' 7 1 1 . 1 ' I 7 I t . . . . . . . ' g U . , . . , . . A , , I 1 1 1 4 7 ! 2 . . ., . 1 - - 3 7 S 7 I . 9 ' . . 7 , ' . 1 Q I I 1 1 1 . . . , - V. . . . I , , , . 1 1 . 1 ' , one eye, beating noisily on his tiny toy drum . . . . U ' Q I ' 1 1 1 2 7 , , 6 ' It ! , l . . . . , , . . . A l J . . , . . . , 1 1 1 1 - . , , , , I . . . 1 ' I il 5 D ' . . , ' . . . - I ' ' , 4 . , ' n . . . . . . , , , . , It ' V , , , S0 , ' , , ' 7 ir 'A' 'A' 'A' ir ' ' , . ' 1 , .

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RIGHT YQU MARY CAREY EOPLE are the crazlest monkeys doubt some emment psychologrst has sagely saxd and one IS obllged to take the word of such an authonty for lack of any better way of puttrng rt At any rate people certamly do crazy thmgs Some of them manage to ra1se ques txon marks l1ke prrckly heat all over the observer by therr appearance alone Lookrng at the problem objectxvely one Ends that people fall naturally mto one of several of a serxes of classes just as jelly beans sort themselves mto the sxx standard colors and varnous mter tones of these The great bra1n rackmg problem IS to put people m therr proper place rn the alleged mmd of the puzzled on looker Thrs llttle operatron may be per formed m a sc1ent1f1c yet elementary manner Thrs rs the correct procedure for analyzxng people Fnft Jelert a lzhely rperznzen a human hezng o one rex or the other who porfetxef the mual The next Jtep 1: to pzoezzre the nereyfary equzp ment to zz 1t One pazr o eye! w1th eyehrowt attarhed fthete are tery helpful a.r they uzll eonze 172 handy to ra1Je 1n Jnrprzre Two earl' and One .ruperfenrztne lf761C9lf7l10lZ thu latter II un dotzhtedly ratzoned hat thete 15 talh o hoot leg 1 g The laboratory 1: o no partmzlar :perl fatzonr Any l1hely :pot wzll do protzded 1t 11 well populated so that the .rperzmen doer not mfpeet that he IJ hezng analyzed Method: of analyzzng dz er hut the ollow1ng har pro1en hoth elartte and eaxy hezng Jo ex c'8Pll071dlly nm ple that even the ongznator ran rememher 1t A Vzwreet the .rpeezmen znto three part! KU Appearanre K 2 Mannetzfmx K3 Pfohahle nzentalzty Ohferte there partr .reparately 7ott1ng dou n ohterzfatmnr 1n a Jurcemon o ap proprzate adjectzzef punctuation rnarhf or fzgn language Draw a logzral ronclufzon ze rlarn y the rpemnen hy znfertzng Into a Jah d1z1J1on o one o the ollowzng three gene ral types SIMPLE COMPLEX COMPOUND Thefe wzll prohahly requlre a certazn amount o elzzetdatzon The explanatzon o SIMPLE 11 df the tztle zmplzef I other uordr all mentally de czent ap pear H1 thzf rlarf COMPLEX dealt wzth thote Hldllldlldlf who haze an ozer ahnndanceo zntellect COMPOUND Jeehf to emhrare all type! whzrh are a com hznatzon o the two preeedzng rla.rre.r To prose the CHTCICHCY of thrs sane and workable method of analysrs one has only to try rt The ex perrmentcr has already ascertamed that hrs proce dure IS practlcal and has concluslvely proven th1s to the patent authorxtles What xs possrbly the most progressne people analyzmg system m three cen tunes has been shown to be edlfyrng and no end dnertxng The results are here publxshed for the morale of those students of human nature who thmk that the world rs gomg to the dogs 23 , '44 cc . ,,, no s . . , . : . , U . . 2 .- , . Q . j ' ' , . , - B' I I . . I 1 U ' , V - . ' . . .. f - ' - ' 1' ' f j f . I' . I , . . , . 'l ' . I ' . . , . I f f - ' - . I enfemhle of eyex, earx, note, and mind. ll V n ' 77 , V : ' j ' ' ' t ' . ... 7 I I - . y . . . ju H f . U - . y , If - v . . g n . , ' , ' U - 4. 1 I nj J If 4 l l ' v . . .