Favorite Mercy High School Memory:
Thank the nuns for tolerating my eccentricities. I would skip one class and attend another, usually a different, younger grade level, nuns at least knew where I was and never bothered me about it.
A special thank you to Sr. Gerard, our guidance counselor, who realized I would never apply to college on my own and picked out three colleges, filled out the applications and pulled me from the hall one day to sign them. I got accepted at all three.
Instilling a need to help others. I love mission work and loved selling off donuts each morning in the cafeteria to raise money and raffling off passes to the National Speedway where I worked as a timekeeper at night and on weekends in between working at my parents' store.
Meeting some really cool friends:
Margaret who introduced me to the book Lord of the Rings on my 16th birthday
Janet who crocheted me a poncho for college that I wore all through my freshman year even in the snow to keep me warm
Finding out during the prom that the girl who threw me in a Judo move and knocked my breath away was secretly married during school--are you still married?
Mary, Wendy and so many others who extended a hand of friendship, and social invitations that enriched my high school memories.
Kenneth, my first date, chaperoned with his cool mom and the approval of my old fashioned dad to the movies
Louis, my heart throb and theater colleague and senior prom date
