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

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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 .

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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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She Hoated down the aisle xvith ease And blushed when seeing you And you marched proudly forward now, As all grooms always do Together then x ou go to be Mated in true martial style as one You know perfect happiness too And then the horrors come Something cuts right throu h your home And carries you away A huge sllver bird it seems Wants you for its prex Away, away, you go and then, You realize with pam That never your princess so dear Will you see agam Axxay away it carrles you Xou fight but why you think Never more will yoxs be Vours You re doomed and all hopes sink Would you not fight and hate this world And loin forces xx hen you meet With brother gremhns who had had A similar defeat I Please page 5 7 j Dawn on the Cflllf LGU CAN RIDE oU XVAS DESOLATE' She tried desperately to get her mind back to Caesar but she couldn t keep from th1nk1ng about the JUHIOI' Prom and well ex erx thing For a long time now shed liked Steve an axx ful lot but Steve lust xxouldnt treat her like a girl To h1m she was just the same little tomboy whom he had shoved around since she was 1n fourth grade and he went everywhere with Joan Oh well her horse Ch1ef still l1ked her even 1f that cute little chestnut mare IH the next stall did run her a close second Tomor row would be a good day to drown her troub les wh1le she was r1d1ng At the stables whom should she meet but Steve and joan Why Joan I never knew you could ride she said surprised Well I can t really but Steve IS going to teach me Isnt that lust perfectly super of him? xx as her answer So Lou watched joan cut in on the only thing that she really shared 18 By Amze Le1mo1z, 47 xv1th Steve alone and then xx ent forlornly home As lt was her custom to take a Sunday morn 1ng ride Lou usually went to the seven o clock Mass 1n order to have a good start on people xx ho rode the rented horses on the trails She xvas surprlsed vxhen she saw Steve there and even more so when he fell 1nto step with her on the wav home Why Steve arent you tlred after being up so late last night? she asked Well no reallx what I mean is that I dldn t stay very long last night because -Ioan xx as so stiff from riding yesterday that she could hardly dance Are are you gomg r1d mg: Sure don t you remember: I always do on Sunday morning Well lt s awfully nice down by the park a Would you a mmd 1f I rode along w1th you: Oh no' Id love it' She said to herself Isn t life wonderful? 7 ,Y Y 7 7 ' . . , . . ' 7 , 7 7 1 4 , . . . U . D . . , . . Q I I 7 4 , 1 , . l O 1 n u Q Y 7 D 1 . . ' , ' 7 . , . , y ' Y Q v . 7 . 7 ' x N . . Now he was captain of the basketball team -A , 1 - - , 1 1 , 1 , ' 77 , 1 9 . 1 i I 9 an , ' . . . , , I . . . . , . . . . i . H 7 cc 1 , . ' ' 71 ll ' 77 I 7 7 1 . . at ' 1 ' 8 , . , a Q n CL 7 ' ' - - - 7 , 7 , , 77 ' in , . u - ' 7 ' lu ' 1 ' ' K4 7 ' 77