Our Lady of Mercy School - Lore Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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To mold and shape, to create and destroy, this is their task.’ You led me down a hallway, A long dark hallway of doors. Doors I tried to open. I knocked, I rapped, I banged, I screamed, But only you held the key. You patiently took out your key and unlocked the doors. Then I entered a new world. A world of Chaucer and binomial expansion and woman suffrage and Christian charity and diatomic molecules. A world of proofs and essays and senators and 6.02 x 10°32, You drilled and quizzed and tested. Then one day, finally It happened. I did homework onceandawhile because I wanted to. I participated in class onceandawhile because I wanted to. I probed and questioned onceandawhile because I wanted to. I wanted to learn.

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Administration manages various activities Girls crammed into lanes of direction hear the gentle voice of a “yellow cart” concealed by the crowd. The daily mishap of getting to another class returns to normal as the “yellow cart’ slowly sinks into one of the many corridors of our enormous school. Everyday it is somewhat the same, excepting the fact that the occupant on the cart usually varies among the members of the administration area. The new member on Mercy’s administration staff is | Sr. Mary Camille, the assistant principal. Her daily duties range from making desk decisions to delivering “words from the wise’ to all sections and corridors of the school. Mercy has a very precise and accurate administration department as a result of the work of the tip-top staff. This staff includes Mrs. Gertrude Fox, business manager; Mrs. Winifred Harkness, secretary; Sr. M. Camille, assistant principal; and, of course, Sr. Mary Victorine! Above: After a strenuous day of puzzling over the accounts, Mrs. Gertrude Fox finds she comes out even. Right: Sr. Mary Aquinas reviews the absent list to make sure no names have been omitted.