Our Lady of Mercy High School - Mercedian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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5 gunioz 04 1r The great game between Junior A and Studies began in September. XVith LaVerne Stricker as Slanager, and Ruth Brauch, Lois Hahncl, and Dorothy i Stacey, as Coaches, the team played a winning game. Some outstanding plays were the selection of two team-mates as D'Tission officers, and three of them as leaders of the sorority. The winning inning occurred when with the bases filled with successful contestants in the Hobby Fair, ,Margaret Schwein hit a home run by winning the Essay Contest. The only trying inning was January exams, but our batters certainly didn't go down in one-two-three order. The entire team hopes that the Seniors always hit home runs and that they never strike out. t Left to Right, FIN! Row, Silling: Betty Klosterman. Dorothy Stacey, Virginia Braun, Ruth Branch. Irene Meyer, Dolores Mider, Cecelia Hoar, Viola Peter. Standing: Daryl Heim, Katherine Hoffman. Mary Ellen Geiger, Marian McLaughlin, Joan Rapien, Mary Louise Pulskamp, Marilyn Keiler, Muriel Temming, Rita Braun. Rose Klosterman, Helen Deidesheimer. Anna Marie Kunz, Mary Catherine Peters, La Verne Stricker. Margaret Allender, Mary Fox, Lois Hahnel. Page 30 4, AYE...IMIV.J I It A

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552250,: Qiazy 1937-58 DEAR DIARY: Picture, dear Diary, a large group of terrified, awkward, stammering thirteen year elders, and you have us, seventy Freshmen in 1957i XVe'lI never forget those kind Seniors who patiently explained to us the mysteries of the vast school building. It was to them that we gave our Freshman best in that picnic at Burnet 'XVoods at the end of the year. DEAR DlARY: In this Sophomore year, the Hspirit 0f the 70 was quite alive. One thing can be said: we were endowed with much power of action. We rtenfants terriblesU had many different teachers and even classes changed around for us, reactionaries. We entered the newspaper world this year. Result: Several of the articles in The Chimes bore Sophomore names. 1959-40 DEAR DIARY: Speaking of dignified Juniors, we tried to be just that. It was rather diFFi- cult, and let it be said, abrupt tOOethis Change from rebels to sophisticated demoiselles, but there we were aping our Seniors, and whath mare, mimicking them successfully. Dlany times we stepped down from our exalted heights. however, in order to indulge in good, honest labor, so, dear diary, you couldnit exactly dub us play-girls. 1940-41 DEAR DIARY: And now weive finally met that threshhold that weH'e heard speakersttspeak of, and dear diary, confidentially, it ian such an attractive one either. It isnit as secure as it looked in our Iunior yearithatk a certainty. To think that we must leave all thiSeour school life, and many of our SChOOI-mates! Our hearts have such a deflated feeling at the thought of part- ing. Could it be that theyill never rise again? XVhy, of course they willeat the first reunion, of the Alumnae Meeting. Page 29 W Jr maruwn

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Left 10 Rt'gr'zl, FEM! Row: .Martha Humbert, Corinne Pastore, Lorraine Moellmun, Catherine ! Ciuxton, Susanne hVer-sching, Betty Bolte, Evelyn Tieke, Helen Reinhart, Nlartha Hartman. Serona' Raw: Rita Smyth, Betty Lou Fischer, Barbara Kottenbrools, Mary Ann Koch, Rita Nlae Kiely, Esther Diesel. Mary Lionette, Katherine Richardson, Mary Stoehr, Rita Holtgrewe, Shirley Nleiners, Nlartha Peter. Third Row: Marian Kenney. Helen Jump. Margaret Mauntel, Rita Osborne, Edith Hartman, Marian Neuman, Ntargaret lVICNeiIl, Domthy Fahey, Janice Kuechenmeister, Dorothy Kemphues, Mary Jane Lang. ganja: B THE PLAYERtS G UILD prawn - g The Adventures of Iunior B Directed by . . . . t .BARBARA KOTTENBROOK Characters .......... 53 jolly energetic girls Stage Manager ............. BETTY BOLTE Time. . . . . e .,. . .. t . . . . . . , t t .The present Booking Agent . . , . . . . 4 .BETTY LOU FISHER Place. . . .A classroom on the second floor of Box-Office ............. CORRINE PASTORE Our Lady of Mercy High School Act I, Scene IeThe beginning of the school year. Junior B is elevated in the world. The girls now occupy a classroom on the second floor. Act 1, Scene HeLater in the year. The class scintillates in all scholastic and social activities of the school. Junior B has a north star in Barbara Kottenbrook who shone int an essay X contest on ttPl-inting and Its Benefits to Mankind. H 1 Act I, Scene III-The end of the term. The girls are reaching the climax of the yeareGraduation. They extend to the graduating class of 1941 volumes of good wishes for immediate success on the stage of life.