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

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Coca Cola belongs ROCHESTER COCA COLA BOTTLING CORPORATION CONGRATULATIONS T0 THE CLASS OF 1945 JOHN W MATTLE YOU CAN T TELL WHAT S COOKIN IN OUR NEW KITCHEN' t89E tA d Cooer fy P JA'VI15 ROCHESTER GAS 81 ELECTRIC EXT TIME BUY PURE QUILL GASOLINE AND MOTOR OIL Gasolauo and Oil SOLD AT 155 HACUE ST 280 EXCHANGE ST 85 STONEWOOD Avi: 4-4-4 CONKEY Avi: 400 STATE ST 191 MT Home Aus 380 W MAIN ST Cuu ER AND HLMBOLDT 195 E MAIN ST A Ro he ter 0 ed C mpa y - 1 1 Q Drink n.'1,.Q..,. .nm Rm.-Ai1.w,L A Ol COIYANY IV . - U 7 7 9 See the new kitchen with the ventilated range at the R. C. 81 E. Showroom a as venue. No grease, no grime, no cooking O Or. l in summer, heat-Saving in winter, and Cleaner he ear around. O en for inspection daily from I . I . O P. M. C . . J n I o 4 K a V T . . c s wn 0 n '

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diploma Don t you thmk Mom and Dad look proud? Through no fault of my own I broke mv arm but nt was fun being waited on I dont look too unhappy do I5 Not to let my brother outdo me I too showed that grammar school didn t phase me See the dlploma 1n my hand rn that snap But educatxon stops yust for the summer and thus wlth B111 startmg h1s senior year I find myself a lowly green freshman at Mercy Oh' those were the days when a date was not a mirage and there was plenty of butter and gas for all but December 7th came along and with lt came war Q 4.1 Q Days were the same that first year Thats a gang of us m front of the audltorlum We were awfully s1lly fVVhat d1d I sayij These last few pages are speclal occaslons Now that film IS so scarce we save it for these times Stlll cuttlng up B111 s dressed up like Hitler m thls snap shot taken when he was a frosh at Holy Cross I wrote dlstractmg letters that year saying we didnt miss him when we really dnd Mom and Dad took these next pictures at the camp our gang went to for several sum mers The camp dlrectors referred to us as those Rochester girls I always hated KP but did plenty of lt July 4th will always be a memory day xn this album You see Blll enlrsted m the Au' Cadets and thats the day he left That picture IS the last we have of him mn CIVVICS but there are yust loads of hmm ID uniform After that great day he was commissioned he got a couple of days leave and surprised the whole famlly by not letting us know We all posed with him the last day he was home I-Ie s our Pm Up Boy -0 -0 4? And so I have come to the last pictures IH the famrly album Theres room here for more and that means more memories They say hlstory repeats ltself It would be wonderful if the next plctures we put IU were of a Vic tory Parade down Mann Street Rochester New York -if The next txme you 'wut the country youll have sometbzng strange to do after reading thu tale lb- Uza Zag ad af the l6'lack Snake . . Usnnsc the shmv brown braids over her shoulder wlth an impatient gesture Mary sk1pped down the stone steps of the red farm house and onto the path leading to the barns Her eight year old mmd had been firmly made up smce the nlght before when for the first time she had l1stened xuth strained ears and wide opened mouth to the tale of the Black Snake She could hear the voice of her father low and my sternous even now If you should take a horsehaxr and tie xt to one of the tall green By Patrzcza Monahan, 47 rushes IH a small creek one day you would dlscover a swlrlmg water snake ln place of x our long black horsehaxr Mary shivered but her courage d1d not fall nor dld she change her plans She knew that horsehalrs were a common slght on the farm She reached the barn and seemg a halr yust 1ns1de the door she grabbed lt and hurried away ln fear of being called for an errand and too she was beginning to lose her nerve Running swlftly she reached the top of the I Please page 631 45 . , . . . , . . - 1 . . 1 . . . . , . , . . u ' 11 , , . . . . , . . . . . - - ' 1 . . . . . , . 1 1 ' . . . H. . ,, , . . . . . 1 . . 1 . . . . . . . , . V 1 ss ' 11 . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . , . . . . . . , - 1 1 . .. , O 9 . . 7 F 1 . . . .1 1 1 . - y . ,, . 9 ' - 1 , . . . V. . . . 1 1 ' . U . . . . . 1 17 - ' , ' 1 1 . . . 1 1 1 1 ' 7 . Y H . . 1 - 1 . . .

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Zjlzafegmplz are Crzeky IF YOU DONT KNOW THE NAMES HE LETTER was on the hall table KV3lfll'1g' for me when I arr1ved home from school It was an ordlnarv looklng envelope wlth the word Free pr1nted 1n the corner where one usually finds a stamp but If wasnt an ord1nary letter as lf served as an 1ntroduct1on to Greg B1ll who llVCd across the street now Pfc W1ll1am McKee USM C wrote to me occa s1onally or as he put lf whenever there wasnt anvthmg else to d Th1s letter sounded much as usual yuth h1s Im fine Hope you are well The chow gets no better fast etc I was just about to glVC up 1n d1sgust when I not1ced a postscrlpt Greg W1ll1ams a pal of m1ne IS lonely w1th no one to wr1te to so I suggested that he m1ght YVI'llfC to you I knew vou wouldn t care Know1ng B1ll as I do I knew he d1dnt care even 1f I d1d just the same I wondered about tbls Greg W1ll1ams and why he couldn t find h1s own correspondents Gregs first letter arr1ved a few days later It was rather n1ce manag1ng to be pol1te 1n formal funny and fr1endly all at the same t1me He asked perm1ss1on to cont1nue wr1t 1ng d1d I prefer Harry james to Guy Lom bardo and finally m1ght he have one of my PICIUICS I was afraid of that last quest1on as I know lm no beauty lust one of those g1rls of med 1um he1ght and we1ght havmg red ha1r not the r1ght k1nd of red elther and eyes on the greenlsh s1de Csome comb1nat1onJ Am blessed w1th freckles scattered h1ther and yon on my not so da1nty nose and wh1ch com pletely spo1l any dramat1c effect I mlght otherwlse achxeve But he wanted a p1cture so I sent h1m one th1nk1ng Oh what the heck I might as well scare h1m now as later' By Mary Ellen Boyle 47 Nature had done her best but I was defimtely one of her off moments I haunted the mall box all that next week but 1n va1n Sherry I sald to myself you ve scared h1m and my ego went down a m1le However I was wrong He wrote that he had been sh1pped to another post and had to Walt an opportumty to thank me for my letter and photograph Cno commentj Enclosed I found a p1cture of Greg and h1s reg1ment He sa1d that he was fifth from the left of what I wondered as he had neglected to ment1on wh1ch row So Judgmg by the p1cture I had my cholce of lst Grandpop who was bald 2nd B1ll Yes they were 1n the same reg1ment 3rd Someone who defimtely could be no one else but the sergeant s pet and who undoubt edly had been Mothers and teachers lnttle precrous 4th and last the tallest n1cest thmg S S Csmce S1natra'J As my luck IS notably bad I knew Mama s Boy was my correspondent But It could have been worse as h1s letters cont1nued to be frrendly full of news so unl1ke B1lls and he soon seemed l1ke one of the gang S much so that 1f I falled to get a letter each week I worr1ed Mamas boy or not I l1ked h1m We had d1scovered we enjoyed the same thmgs football he had been on h1s hlgh schools team Cbut only when Mama wasnt lookmg Ibetj dancmg h1k1ng and popp1ng corn 1n front of the fireplace etc Earlv 1n December he wrote that he and B1ll had furloughs com1ng up over the hol1 days and that he was acceptmg B1ll s 1nv1ta t1on to ChflStm3S at the McKees home Furthermore the boys alreadv had tlckets for The Chr1stmas dance and would I please go wx 1th h1m? Would I go YVITII me not dream mg of anythlng else for weeks' Most of the fPleare page 611 47 7 3 7 7 I 1 1 , ' 4 - 1 77 . 1 - as 77 - ' ' ' as 11 ' 11 1 1 1 - 1 1 . , . ,, . - , , - 1 1 1 1 , . . . ' . , . . H . . . 1 1 1 ' 1 - 11 - ' I O. , ,' ' cc 1 ' , . - ' 1 1 ,, . . . . 1 - 1 1 - Q - 1 1 H . . . . - 1 1 . . , 1 1 - - 1 1 1 cc' 11 ' 77 ' n 1 '- W , . . , , . . . , , . . . . . . . U , . , , . . . , ,, - - 1 1 ' ' ' ' 7. 1 Q W 1 1 ' ' 0 1 1 . . . . . - , - . - , 1 Q' 1 ' 7 7 1 - - 1 1 1 F 1 1 1 1 , . . - 1 ' 1 ' 1 - . 1 CL ' 77 ' ' ' ' ' 1 ' ' - - 1 . . . . , . . - V - 1 9 . 1 n u 1 s u 5 ' 1 1- .. . , . . . . . U Y . . 1 1 1 ' ' , , . . .