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

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pulled up to the curb yust as I scurrxed out of the house wxth only two mrnutes to catch my bus Of course, I wasn t able to see much but after all, tlus IS what Ive been waltmg for lsn t lt? Connie and Sue were just dymg wxth curl osxty at lunch today but I refused to tell them a word fMaxnly because I had nothmg to tell them Q Strangely enough everythmg went per fectly at school today I even knew my Span1sh vocabulary wh1ch was very unusual Ive made a great dec1s1on dlary Im gomg to ask Ronnre to the Sen1or Ball True he doesn t even know of my exlstence but then what s a l1ttle thmg hke that that' Hm m m maybe my l1fe 1sn t so dull after Saturday May 12th Oh Dlary My glorxous dreams are shattered' Alas I fear Ill never smrle agam Thxs mornmg as I was cleamng my room I notlced a tall young man surveymg the garden next door Th1S 15 your chance Sald a l1ttle volce so I proceeded downstairs and out mto the yard mmdmg my own busmess of course Then IC happened Above the clamor of yours truly dllxgently shakmg her dust mop a volce croaked Cquotej Hey funquotej YOUNG FINANCIER I lgnored th1s msprrmg salutatlon, as I d1d not wrsh my new acquamtance to thmk me for ward But wxthout further ado he jumped the hedge and was soon standmg a few feet away Scuse me he stumbled but do you have a brother Do I have a oh yes I have a brother but he s only twelve I man aged to state My thats fine he beamed Someone told me a boy l1ved over here but I thought If too good to be true You see I need a fellow to help me dlg ln my outdoor laboratory Im very mterested ln rare SPCCICS of worms centxpedes and the hke and I m w1ll mg to pay anyone Its dlfficult to keep an assistant these days But never mmd callmg hlm There he IS now Young man walt a minute and off he dashed 1I1t0 the up the walk Someone told me somethmg once too I thought as I stumbled mto the house and If was too good to be true Mr Ronald Hamll ton d1d have blond wavy hart but Judy farled to mentlon the horned rlmmed glasses' So you see dear dlary thats why Im so mlserable and thats why Im off men for 1 e well unt1l the next one comes along anyway Love Pegs Dur1ng the stage when all chxldren lose thelr first teeth fand I was no excep tlonj I acquired the practlce of placmg the extracted tooth under my pxllow In the course of the mght a faxry would come and take the tooth away leavmg ln ltS place a mckel or a dlme dependxng upon the SIZC of the tooth and the amount of pam suffered dunng 1ts extratlon So one day whlle V1S1UYlg my grandmother whom I knew to have false teeth I very brlghtly remarked Gee grandma I bet 1f you put your whole plate under your prllow you d get a dollar' 40 Kay Sclaueler, 47 , - , . . ' 7 ' 7 7 . . , . . Q . 7 ' 7 ' KL 7 77 GG ' ' 7 7 . .... - :,, N . . . . , , ' 7 77 1 9 ' ' ' cc 1 n . ' 7 ' 1 7 1 H ' ' 9 9 ' - 9 . . . , . . , , . . . , . . , . . . , . . . , . 9 9 1 1 ' . . . ,Q . . , . , . . . . 7 7 7 ' , . . . . . . . . . . . , . . , . ,, . ' 1 1 ' ' - 1 all . . . front yard to meet Jlmmle, who was commg , ... , - . u ' 71 ' 7 7 ' , ' as ' ' 7 7 7 7 ' ' 77 ' I I I - 7 7 7 , . Cl ' ' 77 ' ' 7 ' 7 7 ' 1 1 7 . . . . , , 7 7 , , . lf . . . , C4 77 ' ' ' 7 7 7 ' Cl 77 GK 17 , . ............................. . , - , . 1 7 7 7 7 7 7 . ,, . 7 7 7 1 ' 7 77 , . ' 7

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-if Pegs thought ber dream: 'were about to come true but :be badn t counted on the cennpedes and born rimmed glasses Mr- bxt exaggerated a b1t fantasuc but then, 1sn t the l1fe of any teen ager Sunday May 6 1946 Dear Dnary Th1S w1ll have to be short because I m about ready to drop Nothmg specral happened to day We overslept and had to go to the eleven 0 clock Mass oh yes and If poured ram wh1ch meant that I couldnt wear my new spr1ng bonnet Connle and Sue went to see Cornel Wdde at the Palace but I couldn t go because I left my homework t1ll the last mmute When w1ll I ever get over bemg such a procrastmatora CBecause you lead such a sheltered l1fe I m1ght as well tell you that a procrastmator IS one who keeps puttmg thmgs off t1ll the next txme J Monday May 7th D1 honey Youll never guess what I heard at school today' Penny Carpenter told me that a new boy 1S go1ng to move 1n next door She got the news from Judy Halloran and Im so exc1ted tlunk of lf r1ght next door to me' Judy sa1d hxs name IS Ronme Hamllton and that the last tlme she saw h1m he had blond wavy ha1r But, of course that was some UIUC ago because they went to grammar school together and he moved away when Judy was about eleven I can just PICIUFC h1m s hall' IS probably even blonder and wavxer now an oh I Just know I won t sleep a wlnk ton1ght' Tuesday May 8th Dlary It must be all over school about Ronme be cause everyone I meet says, Has he asked vou for a date yet: or Don t be so mysterlous Pegs tell us more Just thmk how 1tll be when he really moves m I told Mom about everythmg and she sa1d that maybe I d finally learn how to act like a lady Now what d1d she mean by a statement l1ke that? Wednesday May 9th You know Dlary I learned a lot today F rrst of all we had a proposmon 111 geometry that was actually log1cal In fact It may even be of use to me III the future Then too I found out that Dott1e Ell1s won t be able to go to the Senlor Ball because she hasn t a formal of any k1nd When I th1nk of how I teased Mom for that plald taffeta the week before the Jun1or Prom I could cry If only I could do somethlng for Dott1e w1thout offendmg her Maybe th1s IS what S1ster meant 1n Rel1g1on the other day about waking up Thursday May 10th Dear Dxary lm the most mlserable glrl IH the whole world ton1ght Nobody loves me My Latm translatlon was all wrong and S1ster looked daggers at me IH Enghsh when I trled to slgnal to Ruth that Ronnle hadnt moved 1n yet Then to top lt all off J1mm1e wont let me wear h1s checked shlrt to the roller skating party Monday nxght lust because I donated h1s old comlc books to the paper drlve Llttle brothers are slmply obnoxlousl HIS old shlrt probably wouldn t fit me anyway C I keep tell 1ng myself J Frndav May 11th Th1s IS lf D1' The number one day of my llfe has hnally arr1ved A huge mov1ng van A Wamzzu s P1111 lege AND SHE DOES HAVE ONE By Marzovz F ess EQ' L,-gg: I 39 7 1 , . ' Q - , - , - 77 an 1 ' 1 1 ' 9 ', 1 ' L6 YDS 79 ' ' 7 - I , . 1 1 ' ' ' 1 1 ' . ' 0 , . , . . . 1 1 1 , . . 1 1 ' - 1 - 1 , . , - 1 1 . . . - - , . . . , , . 1 . . H . . ,, . . , . , - . 1 3 1 7 CC ' 7! , . . 1 - . . . . . , . , . . . a s o I 5 A a I I l 1 - 1 1 u 11 ' ' ' 1 . . . . - , . ' 1 . . . , - 1 1 . . . . hl 5 ' 9 d , , , . . . . Q . . , 1 1 7 , - . 5 1 7 A .- - , , U . . . . 1 1 r -3, . ,tg --. .W .. ,X 1- . Q: 1 ,.. '11 , 1. L ' ,48 E ' J 1 H l I

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-if The lack of brothers and szstefs doem t necersarxly make for .tpozled bratr' as cm only cbald temfe: here Bv- On Kring an Only Elf ld Hose of you whose famlly conszsts of a Mom and Dad a b1g brother teen age slster and a couple of httle tots wrll no doubt, pass tlus up wrthout a second thought Thats all rxght Im wrxtmg th1s ln sympathy wxth the only ch1ld How many times have you been asked Don t you wlsh you had a brother or SISCCID In most cases IC would be rmposslble even to begm to count the tlmes Our reply bexng a weak uncolorful statement Oh' yes Sorry to say we answer m the pos1t1ve merely to put up a good front, whereas behlnd the l1nes there IS a selfish motive runnmg through our mmds the motlve of compamonshlp D1dI mentlon that I was gomg to sympathlze wlth Mothers preclous ch1ld? You say Ive done nothmg but cr1t1c1ze her? Who am I to crltlcnzel For I am among your numbers Ive heard lf sand that there are two sldes to every story Yet people especlally the younger crowd frown upon us the only ch1ld group wlth scorn and mutter spoxled brats The slmple phrase has caused blttemess be tween frlends Im sure well all agree that trymg to get a new formal out of Dad IS lust as hard for one g1rl as xt IS for another Many nmes we thmk that yealousy IS the cause of thxs 111 feelmg We thmk to ourselves that they the oifsprmgs from the large famxhes are yealous because they aren t an only ch1ld or because they are always havmg to stay home and take care of the1r little slsters whlle Mom and Dad attend the nelgh borhood theater By Margaret Tanner, 46 Of course xt s just human nature to shxft the blame on to someone else but how often do we thmk that the yealousy may be on our part? We may be Jealous because we have no httle baby sxster to look after or a brother who 15 contmually teasrng or a slster to borrow her clothes Everyone knows that m order to l1ve a happy normal hfe you must have compamons unless of course you want to be a hermit A hermlt as defined by Webster IS one who lxves m retirement Thls noun IS far from bemg a characterlstlc of an only child It IS true how ever that an only daughter rs more closely umted wlth her Mother smce she had been compamonshlp of a sxster or brother In splte of the unlty however we very often long for a slster to whom we can tell our never-endmg troubles even though our Mother IS always wlllmg to lend a sympathetxc ear An only ch1ld matures mentally faster than those who share the1r chxldhood with other youngsters their own age so I am told SIUCC they are brought up among adults they be come serxous mmded and as a result of thrs maturlty they fall to appreclate the thrngs that youth should be mterested lI'l So you see as the phrase goes Llfe 15 not all a bed of roses It may be apphed to the hfe of an only ch1ld Not that we re complaxn 1ng but we would prefer to be thought of as an ordmary human bemg instead of as a spoxled ch1ld who gets everythlng her heart des1res 41 ' 1 ' ' L4 9 Q 7 9 . . ., . . 9 1 1 ' 1 1 , . . . , . . ' 1 as ' 11 ' - ' . , n ll 1 ' ' 99 ' ' . . . , . , . , . , . ll 99 ' ' ' 9 9 ' ' 9 9 , . n , C 9 - , , ' ' ' denied the prlvllege of having the life-long . , . . , . . . . . . . . b . , , , I c I . Q o 9 . , . 9 9 . ,, . ,, . . . 9 9 ' - , . . ' 1 ' , , . . - . . 9 i 5 - l I n .Ls I 0 ' 7 9 . . ,, . , . .. . . . , . - , . . 9 9 1 ' 1