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

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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

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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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Say lt Again And l'll Scream SI-IEILA HOGAN 46 ERRY Derry Where are you? aney Wy :tt paused at the back door of the Martrn house lrstened for a response Out here rn the garage replxed a doleful YOICC The garaffe' Of all places' excl11med Jamey s she stepped IU blrnkrng her eyes to accustom them to the d1rk rnterror She c1ught one glxmpse of Derry 1nd gasped m amazement Derry' What has happened? Dont look that W1 ' Come here and see answered Derry m a tragrc tone Look' and automobrle janey looked a sorry sxght met her eyes The headlrghts B- and the wxndshleld were shattered Glass covered the front seat 1nd the radlator was crushed rn The steer mg wheel looked decidedly out of place wlth the result that the tires xeered sharply Inward My goodness declared mey tzmg wxth open eyes and mouth at h pal Why Derry how could Derry srghed wrth resrgnatlon How she h ted those words The first tlme she ha heard them w1s at the age of Frye when she a hrox n 1 mud pre rt one of her playmates I-Ier mo her had exclumed Wfhy Derry how could you She h d been hearmg It eyer sxnce Wlmetlmer sh ctme to school wtthout her homework or for got her l nes xn the grammar school play someone rlw us s rd IU 1 shocked tone XX hy Derry how oulel you Th r s h xunted her but that made no dxffer r' e lt h1d become 1 habxt with eyeryone eyen she pomted to the front of the fxmrly gr' ' st-W J.. her rrrends and they nexer farled to repeat It at surtable trmes Wow' I wouldnt want to be tn your shoes rrght now Derry M1rtm janey contlnued You eertalnly dld a good job It rsnt funny protested Derry Honestly aney I couldnt help It at least not very much You see I was drrung home from the store and well I c1me to the corner of Lmden and M1ple where the stop srgn IS Nobody ever pays any atten tron to that so I started to go through and then I saw the Red and Whlte delrvery truck coming the other way Yeah then what? aney was breathless I trled to get out of the way and well I dont know exactly how rt happened but we scraped fenders and the next thing I knew our c1r had crashed into the tree on the corner and I was rn rt' I guess everythmg was rn sort of a mess 5 How excrtrng' exclarmed aney How aw ful' corrected Derry ru k' questxoned aney Oh there s hlrdly 1 scratch on rt Except the fender I scrtped But the clrner was so angry x Ju d thmk hrs err was the one that smashed xnto he t ee not mme XVh1t elld he say Plenty sand Derry grrmly Lets not go mto h1t The mam thmg ns thus what can I do? laney constdered C n you drne IP she asked r z ng st eculrtnely at the erstwhlle ear By some mnrtcle yes lt makes a lot of norse b t 1 n Anyw ry what good wlll that do7 If D d sees hrs wreck I xx on t be allowed to go out 25 0 . 9 CC I I 'A , . ' ' ' 1 . ., . A R hy, -A Y - . A, , S - ,., - - .. ,. J G . 1- , KA rl ' , , . , A r t 2 . I 7 ' i ry. - - it !1 ' I 7 QV I: l - ' 4 - ' f ., I V J ' . ' . t Y' . , 5 e . . . 64'-e. .. - , .. . . y . t 4 ' A I mm , ' ' . , ' 7 . . X I 4 1 . . I - ff f- , v- , 'X ' er . ' ', ' y, ' It Q - ' ' . . you? 1 4 ' XVhat happened to the delivery A ' ' ' -W ' , t e A ' ' J . ,. I a A Y ' ' .d . ' A. L M '. , L , , , h d . . h K , : 1' . Vt 1 . - 1 I ' ' . ' ' o . ,P V' . v . - f . ' .V . . . r , 1, , . . , . , y- ' L ' . . a M . ' ' '- ' . ' 'lv ', A '- ' ' h C W A K , A V - I Q A A t ,... - V i . gym . A A V K, ll-an V .v , . ' . ' ' '.1i.f 1' -f 4 . Q v fl' l - I 7 1. . 1 1' ph .Le 4 ' - A f - L: 't ru s. ' '. ', ' .