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

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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. ' '. ', ' .

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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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for a month And Ill probably neyer to able to drrve a car agarn untrl I m twenty one Not tl I care to especrally after this rncrdentl Its only two 0 clock and your father Wont be home untrl five aney pornted out Call up Manders garage and ask them to send a man out to hx rt But how can anybody fix rt? protested Derry pessrmrstrcally Vile need a new vundshreld and two lenses for the headlrghts aneys suggestion was practical They have lenses at the garage I saw them rn the wmdow I don t know about the wrndshreld but call up and Hnd out anyway I haven t enough money to pay the brll and pay for the headlrghts too sand Derry doubtfully Pay for the headllghts and charge the brll to your father You can pay rt rn installments with your allowance aney you re a lrfe saver exclarrned Derry joyfully as she started toward the house and the telephone About half an hour later Derry and aney who were rerdrng ln the llvrngroom heard the front door bell rmg Oh golly' exclanmed Derry Its the man from the gtrage I forgot to tell hum not to come to the house If mother finds out now rt s curtarnsl aney you head her off I ll go to the door Never mrnd mother I ll get rt she czlled as she opened the door Hr Derry' Derry stared at the boy rn oy eralls who stood on the front steps Wfhy rm Gregory' Smce when have you been workrng at Manders garage9 Mr Manders gaye me a part trme job thus summer rm explamed Who rs rt Derry? her mother called from the kltchen It s jrm Gregory Mom Derry explarned ust then aney appeared on the scene If she was surprnsed at the man from the garage she drd not show rt Her practrcal nature asserted rtself Come on she suggested Lets go out and see the wreck 'hm took one look at the car 26 XX h Derry how could you Boy you re m a jun' Of course thats nothing unusual Oh rm please hurry' pleaded Derry Its al host three o clock' It was after four o clock when rm finrshed hrs Job He had not been able to replace the wrnd shreld rn such a short time but he had put the lenses on the headlrghts and taken most of the dents out of the radrator and fender aney had gone home declarrng that she had done her part Derry and rm were left gazrng rather morosely t the object whrch had caused all the trouble Wrll you tell your dad? rm asked her I ll have to srghed Derry But I don t thunk hell mrnd so much Exerythlng rs fixed but the wlndshreld Say Derry by the way sard rm carelessly Ive been meanxng to ask you thrs How would you hke to go to the country club dance wxth me nevt Thursday? Derry looked up at hrm rn delrght Why rm I d lone to she responded usrng the words vshrch although oy erworked nes er seem to wear out That s swell enthused m Ill call for you about erght o clock Well I ll be seemg you Derry watched hrm go fascmated The country club dance was a brg affarr She d never dreamed of being asked especrally by rm who was one of the best lrked boys at school ust then aney came runnrng across the lrvnn Well she shouted gayly whats up starry eyes3 rm rust asked me to the country club dance Derry confrded I had a hunch somethrng lrke that would hap pen so I just wrthdrew at the rxght moment replred the rmperturable jane I knew he wanted to ask you You knew more than I drd admitted Derry I nes er even guessed You accepted of course? asked Janey Of course sard Derry as rf there could be any doubt about that aney grrnned and admonlshed Why Derry how could you9 I 1 1 ' ' .1 ,. . . 1 1 1 1 ,. 1 1 1 J 1 - 0 lp 1 - 1 - .- - 1 ' A 1 - 11 ' . Q c . , . , . , J , . . 11 1 . 1 1 11 1 . f - 11 - 11 ' , , , 1 J ' ' J 1 . - 11 , ' 1 11 1 1. . - - - 11 - . . 1 1 J - , I . J 1 . . U , ' 1 4 . . Il ' I . ' ' ' 1. 1 11 - 1 , . J . 11 1 11 - 11 1 - 1 1 , , 11 1 . D - . 1 1 ' , ' ' - - 11 1 1 - ' , 11 - . L L 11 11 - - 1 1 4 1 1 1 .11 . . 11 11 - 11 1 yt . ' 1 1 1, 1 1 1 A . , 1 . . . ,, . - 1 1 1 11 - A . , , 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 , . 1 , .1 1 11 i 1. 1 . 1 ' ' . - 1 1 - 11 11 11 - .1 1 ' 7 ' , . . . . . 1 - k . . . , ,, , 1 . . . , I . . ' . . V J 1 1 1 , . . . - 1 - 1. ' - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 - j J . . . . ' 11 1. 11 1 11 - -1 1 1 4 1 1 1 - 1. 1 1 ' t 1 1. . . .1 .. J. . I 1 , . , . A 1 11 . . U I . 11 V - - - - . 1 ' 11 1 , Y ' ' . . .1 11 1 ' -1 , , . 11 11 - 11 - 11 1 - 11 - - , . 1 1 ' 11 11 J .I I . - 11 11 L , 1 ' ' . . . . 11 11 - - . . 1 1 11 11 11 1 1 1 ' 11 , - 1 11 . J 1 1 1