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

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Then two weeks of mtenslve trammg began I taught her the very latest dance steps, how to wear hpsuck, how to fix her hair She ac compamed me to the Blrd s Nest after school studied less hard at mght, and began tak1ng an mterest 1n people The klds at school were qulck to accept the new Eadle and were amazed at the lmprovement A proud moment for me was Eadle s first date when I real1zed the metamorphos1s was complete There were more dates after that but Eadne stxll dreamt about Scotty Harrls We freshmen g1rls are m our pr1vate booth at the Blrds Nest, eat1ng hot fudge sundaes From where I s1t I can see Eadle dancmg w1th Bob Baxter to Back Beat B0Og1C The muslc has ended now and they return to the booth filled wxth laughmg chat TOMMY S DOGMA tmg boys and gxrls But Eadle IS starmg at the door wlth a strange look on her face Scotty yust came ln' Hes headmg over to Eadles booth, too He slts down wxth them and recogmzes Eadxe suddenly She IS smllmg at hlm now lookmg not at all super mtellxgent, and he rlses askmg her to dance They ghde away together her head restmg hghtly on h1s tweed shoulder Now he holds her at arms length survey1ng her w1th pleasant, grave wonder They both laugh suddenly and Scotty draws her close agam Ead1e just notlced me slttmg so excntedly m my booth and gave me a grateful wmk Now I know that I don t have to worry any more about Eadle s date for the jumor Prom and I can really enyoy my sundae That just proves that no matter how smart a person IS theres stxll plenty to leam Ask Eadle 1f you don t beheve me' One day 1n Catechlsm class my brother who was about nme at the t1me sat mtently llSfCI1ll'1g to the prxest Father was askmg questnons on thetr lesson for the day Turnmg to my brother he asked Tommy how many kmds of s1n are there? My brnlhant brother repl1ed w1thout hesltatxon There are two kmds of sm Father mortal and convement ALL DIRTY' PAT BARRY, 47 At that tlme I was only one and had Just found out the advantage of talkmg And smce 1ce cream was one of my favorlte treats m hfe my father used to buy me cones qu1te often On th1s one nlght they were all out of vamlla whlch was the only k1nd I had known of so my father decxded to get me a chocolate mstead When he handed It to me I looked at It with surprlse and then at my father Throwmg the cone down to the ground I exclaimed All dlrty NO VOICE KATHLEEN QUINN, 49 On a brlght Sunday afternoon after mdulgmg 1n a del1c1ous turkey dmner my younger sxster and I started the dreaded task of domg the dlshes Mother was rest mg m the hvmg room when all of a sudden she heard a terrlfic crash' As qulck as a flash Mother was 1n the k1tchen only to find one of her best chma dmner plates smashed mto a m1ll1on httle pleces Mother gave me a qu1ck glance of dlsgust Cfor Im usually the one who breaks all the d1Sl1CS, so 1n order to defend myself I told Mother that I dxdn t do It The only other person to look at was jackle my httle slster who by now was shakmg qu1te a b1t Mother only sa1d Jackle In a tremblmg vo1ce Jackxe sald Mother I lost my VOICC I can t talk 12 LUCILLE HAUBNER 46 . . . . . . . , . . , I - n . . , . . 1 ' 7 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 . , . , , . - 1 . 1 ' 1 1 U Q C U R - , . ' ' cc ' 17 ' 1 . , . . . 1 . . U . . ,, . . , . . , . . . . . , . 1 ' 1 . 1 1 1 1 . . U . . 1 1 , 1 ,, . . . . . . U . . , . . . ,, 1 1 ' 1 . 1 . . . . . ' 1 , . V . ' - u ' 11 . 1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . 1 . . , . . . , . , . 1 1 1 1 cc ' 79 1 ' , ' ' ' ' sa ' I 1 91 1 1 1 - 1 1

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No I repl1ed blandly and beat out a wlcked boogie base 1n the a1r on an lmagxnary plano Oh you re 1mposs1ble she fumed as she prcked up her books and stalked out of the room Sausfled I dashed over to the phone and dlaled johnny Parks number johnny IS my fall guy because he slmply adores me though he wouldnt admlt lt for anythmg He knows Im not 1n the habxt of callmg boys so he had a hard nme understand 1ng who I was and what I wanted I finally conv1nced hxm my mtentlons were honorable and outhned my plan to get Eadle a date for the jumor Prom At approvnmately seven thlrty that evenmg the doorbell rang W1th a Iwonder who that can be look on my face I left the stacks of dr1pp1ng d1shes 1n front of me to answer If As I had expected It was johnny and the boy hed Sald he would brlng but whose face I couldn t see IU the d1m hght here I sa1d loudly for the benefit of my parents and practxcally pulled the two boys mto the house Then I recognlzed Johnnys compan1on He was Scotty Harrls the most popular boy 1n the Semor class I couldnt beheve my eyes here was th1s magmficent speclmen of manhood rxght 1n my house and for Eadlel But what would he thlnk when he saw her sad apple Ead1e Lewlsi Determ1ned to make the best of an IITIPOSSI ble s1tuat1on I covered over my utter dxsmay wlth a forced galety that completely baflled Johnny I left the two boys 1n a stramed con versat1on wxth my parents and went upstalrs to get Eadle to coach her She wasn t the least b1t lnterested 1n commg down so I was forced to drag her from an essay she was wrxtmg on Present Day Soc1al Problems Only when I promnsed to wlpe d1shes for her for two weeks and threw IH twenty five cents besldes was she Wllllng to do as I asked I conv1nced here that she was terrxbly washed out lookrng and was a bxt encouraged when she asked rf she could use my llpstlck Whlle she was glngerly applylng th1s I fastened a strmg of pearls around her neck and pulled her su eater down over her hlps a llttle more When she had combed her haxr she was an entxrely dlfferent person I felt a ray of hope enter my dlscouraged soul Hur nedly I explalned who Scotty was and that she was to entertam hum and for heavens sake to be mce to hxm smce every grrl 111 school was after hxm whether she was aware of h1m or not What do you thxnk I am rude or some thlng Ill at least be pohte to the boy Wlth trepldatlon I gently pushed Eadle down the staxrs 1n front of me and mtroduced her to Scotty Hello he sa1d 11'l a pleased masculme vo1ce that sent shlvers dancmg up the backs of the glrls at school whenever they heard It H how do you do: asked a weak vo1ce that I scarcely recogxuzed as that of my slster Mother and Daddy lookmg hke v1ct1ms of shock left the room m a daze starmg at thelr changed daughter Johnny and I began to dance and I was pleased to see Scotty ask Eadle but she flushed and shook her head and jomed her and then I nearly dled of sheer horror Eadxe sat there look1ng hke the annmated verslon of the prmcesses I used to read about 1n faxry tales her blg brown eyes lusterous Wlfh excxtement her face radxant wrth an 111 ner warmth It wasnt hard to tell that she had fallen hard for Scotty and I was pleased as punch to thank my llttle scheme had worked out so well I walted to see the effect of her charms on Scotty but she rumed everyth1ng by launchmg 1nto a dxssertatxon on Avogadro s Law I desperately trxed to slgnal her to stop but she pa1d no attentxon to me and went r1ght on talk1ng Scotty squlrmed uncom fortably not saymg a word My hopes deflated hke a punctured balloon The rest of the even1ng passed just as chsmally and I could see the relxeved look on Scottys face when johnny fat my msrstencej sug gested that they had better leave When the door had closed behmd them Eadxe burst 1nto tears I managed to soothe her carefully ex plammg the whys and wherefores of gettlng a man And wonder of wonders she promlsed to turn ox er a brand new leaf ln an attempt to recapture Scotty 11 U ,, . , , 7 . 7 7 7 ' Cl 7 ' ' 77 ' ' 7 7 7 . 7 7 ' 7 7 ' 1 ' ' GL ' - , - , - - - - v - ra , r . ' 7 1 ' 1 1 v I u . it ,, l 1 1 u u H 7 7 s . - 1 it - ,, . 1 ' L6 - - - ' ' ,, . . . . ' ' 1 s ' 7 7 , . , . . 7 7 , . . . . ' 9 Why, johnny Parks! Imagine seeing you walked over to the sofa. Perplexed, Scotty 7,1 . 7 , . . . , . . . . ' 7 ' 1 . . , . . . ' 7 - , - . . . , , . ' 9 , - Q . . 7 . , . . . . . . , U , , - ' . . , 7 , n- , . . . - . . . . , s . 0 it 4 ,, s I n . ' Q , . . . , - . , l I 1 . - . , . , . . Q 7 - . 9 . D , , . 7 7 Y .

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Collaborators for thzs artzcle are Women Hank Cflzamcfcrs MA-We 46 Psocv FINIGAN 46 NonMA Dr-:Pnaz 46 As Analyzed by Semor Readers HELEN sem 46 IVILIZATION mventlons governments fact, everything we hear of nowadays seems to be movmg forward, always forward reach mg new helghts But should not our modern hterature also have that same hlgh quahty which marks our other prrzed accompl1sh ments? We laugh when we hear that, m olden days, women were treated mamly as mans slave Now women, through provmg themselves worthy have practlcally all the rlghts of men Yet most modern wrrters contmue to depict thelr heromes as beautrful lrght creatures, havmg few brains and always followmg therr emotlons Only a few authors have the fore Slght to create therr heromes as the malorxty of women are lf not beautlful at least at tractrve smcere mtelllgent and havmg perfect No one doubts the fact that modern novels whlch are read by thousands have a marked effect on our lrves Young grrls young women, mrddle aged women and old women all put themselves ln the character of the herome In these days when we prrde ourselves on our ln tellrgence and progress women would l1ke to feel that they could step 1nto the heromes role rn modern books Aslde from our Cathollc vxewpomt the rn fluence of modern best sellers IS bad not only for Cathohc grrls and women but for all grrls and women It 15 a proven fact rn hlstory that a country IS only as strong as the morals of nts women are strong Thus modern lltera ture IS not contrxbutmg to the strength and superrorxty of the Unrted States but rather to the degradatlon of the hugh standards of Amer lcans every where Women are as lndlspensable to novels as thev are ln every day hfe But suppose we glance at some starthng examples of fictxonal Sm:u.A Hocus' 46 Eu.:-new Canocnm, 46 femuumty and ludge for ourselves the worth of these characters For our first example let us take a best seller Leave Her to Heaven by Ben Ames W1ll1ams In this he writes about the seventh deadly sm a womans jealousy Ellen loves her husband Dlck so much that she IS jealous of anyone else commg IH contact wrth hrm She allows hrs cr1ppled brother Danny to drown and later she causes her own death Ellen as the herome acted neither wlth sense nor feelmgs She was completely spolled, allowlng her emotrons to rule her Definrtely she rs not an ideal herome JCSSIC Benton Fremont The Immortal Wxfe IS an unusual type of character for we may sympathrze and crrtlclze her at the same trme She was ambntlous and full of drrve but Fremont would never have amounted to any thmg She sublugates her own unusual ab1l1ty to hrs Her Splflt rn facmg defeat IS an example to all women Perhaps she was bom seventy five years too soon but her story IS a txmely story m th1s age of equal rlghts for men and women The pages of Let the Hurncane Roar grve us Carolrne who exempllfies the burlders of Amerlca In thelr mmds as ln Carolmes was but one thought, the homestead thexr share ln Amerlca Thls brave herome found not a thought for herself but only for her husband and her chlld and thrs ploneer faced her thoughts squarely unflmchmgly She drd not flee she trusted them and was saved by them The notorlous Queen Blanche from Zofia Kossaks Blessed Are the Meek could be crted as a character whose basic prxnclples are twrsted and dlstorted I-ler selfish, 1ns1p1d at tltude toward her husband and her rll fated lover makes her the object of contempt and complete abhorrence I3 I 3 7 i Y , i l I U Y Y 7 . . , , in . . . . , . , - ' ' CC ,Y ' 1 . . . . , . 1 , . . . , . , . . . 1 1 . . . , . u , - ' ' S4 , - 1 n . 1 . Q ' 97 ' I : . . , I- . . Q . , , , . n Q 1 , Conn-01 of their emotigns. the reader realizes that wlthout her ard, John 7 . 0 ' ' - 1 . . Q 1 Q Q u . , . ' 9 9 . . . . . . , 7 U - , . at . ,, o ' . . . - . , . . . . . . 5 - 1 , - . . u 7 . . , . , , . ' . . Q 1 . . . ' - 1 ' s 5 u , . . 7 5 ,1 at ,sv