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

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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

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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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