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

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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 . . .

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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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CASE I SrMPr.E A plucked and pencrlled eyebrow portable glass jar complexron gory mouth and chrnless chrn are the early symptoms of the frrvolous scatter brarned type of person ffemale These characterrstrcs appear separately or rn formrdable groups of twos and threes and are us ually combrned wrth a prercrng nasal tone of vorce and shallow colorless rovrng eye The stock of conversatron consrsts of Yeah? Are you krd drn 9 No' Swell and Lousy and these are versatrle httrng rmpartrally rnto any convenrent nrche rn the talk and accompanred by the unappe trzrng sqursh sqursh of an over worked hunk of gum The whole personalrty rs expressronless and rndrcatrve of a mentalrty whrch has been lost strayed or stolen srnce brrth CASE II COMPLEX tered Complete wrth hollowed burnrng eyes out lrned by horn rrmmed specs furrowed brow thrn lrpped mouth and austere sharpened features the tortured genrus emerges Thrs xrctrm of an over actrve parasrtrc brarn rs as far removed from sanrty and practrcalrty as rs thc afore mentroned dope A slave to the excesses of hrs rntellect as the other rs to her body thrs under nourrshed creature wrth hrs deflated chest rs useless to hrmself and to socrety and the srctrm of a powerful lrttle known malady referred to as brarn fcx cr But the rntellrgent reader wrll not be ower con cerned about thrs specrmen for he rs an extremely rare almost extrnct sarrety of egomanrac whrch flourrshes only rn the foul dusty atmosphere of encyclopedras Avord the book germ lrke porson and one rs not rn rmmrnent danger of contractrng thrs frrghtful rnfectron 24 CASE III-COMPOUND fComp0fed of 1 pm SIMPLE and 1 part COMPLEXQ Thrs specrmen rs wrdely known berng almost as common as the moron mentroned rn CASE I He for shej rs an even blend of the worst qualrtres of both precedrng cases and more obnoxrous than erther It fsrnce the other two are he and she rt seems only farr to call thrs t rs a creature of moods a servant to rts least whrm capable of deep thought or grddy senseless behavror It looks exactly lrke the mongrel that rt rs havrng rrregular featurcs seedy rnconsrstent personalrty and nonde scrrpt mannerrsms The supposed mentalrty of such an rndrvrdual rs a complrcated mechanrsm whrch requrres the mrnd of an rntellectual grant to decrpher Srnce the experrmenter rs no grant and lacks the rcqurred rntellcct he leaves the problem entrrely to the resp cted rerder Escry tale must have a moral even screntrfic re starch storres and thrs rs no exceptron The brg drflicultv rs uncoserrng somethrng really sensrble and uscful an easy lesson but one that rrngs a bell Followmg rs a clear terse statement whrch ful Hlls the afore mentroned qualrncatrons to the letter Locke saystlf the drstrnctron between a madman and a fool rs that a fool rs he that from rrght prrn crplcs naalres a wrong conclusron but a madman rs one vxho draws a just rnference from false prrncrples Thus the fool who cut off the fellow s head that lay asleep and hrd rt and then warted to see what he would say when he awakened and mrssed hrs head prece was rn the rrght rn the rirst thought that a man would be surprrsed to find such an alteratron rn thrngs srnce he fell asleep but he was a lrttle mrstaken to rmagrne he could awake at all after hrs head was Cut off Whrch all goes to prove that Insane people easrly detect the nonsense of other people JOHN HALLOM tl'Talle: - 7 l - , Y . . . . , . , ' u I ' I U U - ..i H, . ' , 7 I 1 a ' ' ' - ' ' ll ll IQ ' I , . l L I , , , . y . . .t , .. ,.,, .. ,., . , Q, ,. . . U , . , . 1 r ' I . ' . . . , . . I ' S 1 . YL: V l I . ' 7 . . . - . 1 7 ' The other extreme rn rndrvrduals rs here encoun- ' -y , ' ' - - 1 ' r A , 4 , I . b ' 1 1 ' 4 r ' ' ' Y , A , . - . : . Y. - - . 4 . . v . ' . . . I v C v ' h . 1 - ' K . C u . . , . , , . 4 - . y . . . , 1 . . . Y - A K I ' ' ' I S 4 1 . K , X . V . . , . . t . . , .. - fl? 9