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

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13 You want a real fazry tale then see an Inshnzan and Mercy recommends Maman as a teller of such tales ir- ,414 Ja laaaa. . . ,4 gaay. . . ,4 Cale SURE EVERY IRISHMAN TELLS THEM By Marzan Callahan, 45 RELAND IS surely the isle of wltchcraft fa1r1es and age old superstitious And most every Irrshman st1ll belieses fa1r1es dance on the shamrocks in Erie s fields Let you and me yourney back to a lrttle farmhouse in County Kerry and let us also turn Father Tlme back thirty years or more Here we find ourselves rn a cozy kltchen sxpplng tea and listening to the older folks re lating weird tales each trying his best to out do the next Two little g1rls huddled together listen uide eyed as each speaker tells a frlght enmg tale of the fairies xx ho dance at midnlght vslnle Ireland sleeps Each member of the family has his daily tasks to perform and tonight our two llttle friends Nora and Katle must walk through the dark fields to see that everything 1S 1n order for the early mornmg s work As thev proceed every noise and movement 1S magni fied and they Vk21tCh mtently for the goblins and witches who mlght appear at any moment Nora suddenly halts as lf struck In the dark ness a white object slowly makes 1ts was through the fields Back to the house they race and for many mmutes they breathlesslv tell of the1r adventure No one doubts for a moment but that it was a fairy they had seen That night we find them with windows locked and shades drawn attemptlng to sleep but un successfully Finally mornlng makes 1ts appearance and u 1th lf a st1ll stranger phenomena One of the kitchen chairs has disappeared and after thorough search lt IS found out 1n the fields with one of the legs broken That too re mains a mystery until the broken wroung IS found 1n one of the donkey s stables At last the llght The mystery is solved minus fa1r1es and gobllns or what have you In Ireland lf IS the custom for everyone to take It a thorough ss ashlng The cha1rs are then left in the sun to dry By mlstake one of the chairs was not returned agaln to the house and a venturesome donkey during the evemng had wandered near the house and caught h1S head betu een the legs of the chalr and proceeded on his way to the barn It was the donkev and not the fairies that Nora and Katie had en countered This eplsode may have a logical endlng but I challenge you to show me an honest to goodness Irlshman who deep ln his heart doesn t still ablde by a few such superstltxons heard when just a tot beside a cozy fire NVXYNY A DIFFERENT SPRING Sprzng zs here how 'very true, The sun shznes brzghtly fwhzte clouds peek through Lzlee polka dots on a field of blue And through the dark blessed to ear The chzldren s laughterl can hear And God and heaven seem so near 16 I once saw robms all around And marbles rollzng on the ground Whzle beauty seemed to have no bound And now these thzngs are left behind I grape for lzght but cannot End Delzghtful sprzng for I am blind Shelza Hogan I 1 - 1 - 1 - , I - . . V . . ' N . . , . . . , , y. . . 7 cc ' 77 ' ' ' ' U 7 ' 1 9 ' . . u . L u , , ' 1 . , . ,Q 7, - , - . . . . Y I I' ' ' . h1s indivldual chalr out 1nto the open and g1VC l 9 l 9 . , . , . . .- y . 7 . . . h l , as , . ,, . . . , ' , 1 n n n . . I , I y I 7 . , , . . . 7 7 ' ' , , '46

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-Qi Let auzeen-ager give other teenjagers a few ups on 'what to do to stay zn the groove! Ev- ,flflakmg zz H0 6 161114. . . POPULARITY AND THEN SGME N I N T II I N N I N G You get out of hfe what vou put mto xt Evervone agrees that thls IS true but the ldea lsnt put 1nto pract1ce Xou xvant success popularlty and happlness The world 1sn t golng to hop up to your house and leave 1ts reward on the door step You have to work for If FLY BALL You have followed the rules you re xvell groomed, tactful and efficxent ut somethmg IS wrong Inv1tat1on bearmg frlends arent flockmg to your door and you have never been asked even to be head of the clean up commlttee Are you a snoba You dont thmk so Are you a Bramless Betty? Cer tamly not three A s on your report card last month Are you enthusxastxc H ts m a way Ahh, there s your trouble, Apathetlc Ann, you have forgotten to let yourself go Now thxs doesn t mean that you should burst all your bonds of d1gn1ty by revert1ng to shoutmg and back slappmg A healthy attltude of bemg lnterested 1n what s gomg on around you a must have mgredlent on your personahty chart FIRST BASE How do vou th1nk Whats your attltude on l1fe Gloomy Gladys foretells ra1n on Easter Sunday, early deaths and summer droughts Generallx thls XIIHIUITI p1ll opposlte slows dowxn the excltement of the gang to a slow walk Gay May bubbles over wlth happmess smlles and laughter Her sense of humor lsnt corked up Its out 1n the open xx here everyone can see lf She plans get togethers and alxx avs has a funny story readx to ald a fallmg conxersatlon There are no By Rosemary Bofwe closed doors 1n her exlstence she s wel tome ex ery where RIIUNDING THIRD It doesnt seem fa1r You work hard and the results arens worthy of the amount of labor that IS put 1nto lf Take Latln for 1n stance The way you studled those partxelples and 1nHn1t1es then the test and you couldnt wrlte one of them There was the tlme you had that speclal date and the new blue dress that brought out the color of your eyes What happened The 1ron was too hot and at 7 10 the dress looked hke scorched earth' Those thmgs happen to everyone Each defeat makes vlctory more preclous Keep on trymg success IS bound to come II 0 M E P L A T E When you get rlght down to lf there IS one th1ng that really counts Have all the trump cards, even brams but lack common sense and down and down you go mto the depths xt s bexng able to see th1ngs as they really are then declde where vou Ht mto the pxcture Rushmg headlong onto thlngs wlthout g1V1Ilg them a little conslderatlon IS bad busmess Hastv Hattle s motto IS act then th1nk Heated words break up all the frlend shlps she mlght develop Hattxe s health IS m a constant state of upheaval she never knows enough to xx ear rubbers xx hen lf teems or go to bed before 11 00 at least txx1ce a xx eelx Her assorted xx ardrobe shrleks of clothes that aren t matches VVe can dlg her graxe xx 1th a sllwer spade because she xxon t last long m thls ma thme age DOY T I ET THIS HAPPEN TO X OU Keep on the beam xx xth common sense' 15 Q '45 7 Cl , 1 ' 77 ' ' 7 1 l c 1 n - . . h 7 7 1 1 ' . , . . , . ., . . . , . , h 7 A ' 7 , ' n n 1 n l . , , - Y 9 1 ' , , . . . b , . . . , , ' L4 ' 57 - - . l ' W . . ' ' ' ' c 1 A I s . ' ' F 'z . , . 9 ' 1 . , ' . . . . , , , . Cl 77 ' ' ' ' 1 ' of woe. Common sense . . . what1s1t? Well, ca as - ' ' , ' ' 0 0 0 , ' 2 7 ' at ' 9 sv ' cc . ' 2 as 77 ' - ,, - - . . ., . . s I 'v, I - ' -1 1 y ' , , ' u as ' Q 1 7- v 7 . . 7 , , 7 7 ' . , , . . v . . , n g 1 Y . Y 7 . - 1 V , Y . . - . ., . . . . v v v - . Y 4

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-'H Thx: ballad ns dedzcazed to those 'who fly the :hips that dxsturb the gremhm Bv- .a- Q ,4 Grcmhn s Cale af Wav I Ill! r oc Fleurs tall spms scared me not Nor dld they any flyer The hmdrance most feared by us all Were greml1n s acts so d1re They clog the props and tltkle our ears And poke holes ul the tanks Thev hve rn hopes of destroymg us Then' Joy thexr only thanks And so thlnk not of guns and bombs When you pray for me But remember what Ive told v ou here About thls enemy And vvrth these words he left her now To go back to h1s shlp A fighter prlot who had been Lee s love by thought and l1p She ambled slowly to the yard These gremhns were amazing She could not see a strong ship dle Because of pranks so amazlng She saw a tree of splendid helght Reaching to the sky And as she watched a tmx elf Shd doxvn before her ev es An elf vv1th ev es so dxm and sad She froze there ln her stand And soon the elf had perched ltself Rlght there besxde her hand Xour boy frlend great had told hls tale Noxx let me begm I would not be on mother earth If IE xx ere not for hllll WE' By Patrzcza Saunders, 45 X ou humans are a mean croxvd You thrnk of only you Back 1n my home a fluffy cloud We help each other we do Now don t you talk' just wart a whlle These earthlmgs call us gooney grems What would you do please? What would you do 1f you llved high Upon a gorgeous clear You xxere a prmce and happy too These vxere your people dear Soon would be your marrlage feast The stars were shmlng brlght The prmcess falr of love and peace Would be yours come the nxght The clouds were movmg closer now All greml1n frlends came out And even old man 1n the moon Had stopped hls sulkv pour The star beams danced and lead the march The moon beams followed late And x ou were xvaxtlng at the alsle To greet v our lover mate The xv 1nd xv as slngmg I love you The planets teased m fun And then vou saxx the prmcess fair X ou knew she xmas the one Vhth dress of star dust trlmmed xx 1th dew She sparkled peace to all She xv as x our onlx hope and xx rsh To her you gave x our all 17 .. . . V -6- yr A ' J ii! 1 S' - 1 ' ' - J R, 'fa' Q- 1. 3+ I' I . If f- 1 A . ' ' -.1-: ' Zu - . , ., f ,xv , V D 7 7 7 I ' 1 9 . , . , . , . cc 17 ',, 'v s , ' ' , I . ' . And let mes eakm iece 9 . . . . , , , 9 7, .. , . 9 7 3 v v ' , 9 1 ' 71 y I 7 9 1 4 7 , Y . . . , . . . , . . . , 7 9 ,Y ,Y V. v . Y. Y . . K , , sf - 9 9 . 3 9 ' I ' an Y A 7 ' 9 ' y' ' ,' ' 9 9 LT I ' . q , , , , fx. ' , , ' 'I 1 .