ON CAMPUS
Mercy-A-Thon Mercy-A-Thon is a treasured student fundraising tradition that takes place each year during Mercy week. Mercy students were more excited than ever to be together celebrating their school spirit while bowling at Pinstripes in their first off campus activity since returning to campus. Through our students supporting students campaign, our student body successfully met every goal we had and raised over $94,000!
The National Honor Society Induction Ceremony
This Fall, Mercy welcomed 15 students to Mercy High School’s chapter of the National Honor Society (NHS). NHS is built upon four pillars—scholarship, service, leadership, and character—which each inductee exemplifies through their personal choices and achievements in and outside of the classroom. Students were honored to have Mercy alum Congresswoman Jackie Speier ‘68 as their Keynote Speaker who spoke to the challenges she has faced and the importance to always face them head on while leaning on the support of others. Congratulations to this year’s National Honor Society Inductees! INDUCTEES 2021 Marissa Abaya - Junior Sophia Avenido - Junior Katherine Callagy - Junior Niamh Dawes - Junior Danielle Donato - Junior Marrian Gomez - Junior Sophia Knapp - Junior Olivia Langridge - Junior 12 MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME
Samantha Lynch - Junior Gurleen Samra - Junior Maxine Schaffner - Junior Sophia Villalobos - Junior Janice Wong - Senior Erin Colville - Senior Akiko Hokamura - Senior
Congratulations to Mercy sophomore and The Winds of Truth author Lilly Mae ’24! Her first book will be available this December 2021. Lilly Mae is a fifteen-year-old author, who began writing The Winds of Truth when she was nine years old and finished it at twelve. After two years of editing and sharing her manuscript, she finally got her first publishing contract at fourteen. She has been accepted into two pre-collegiate writing classes at Stanford University and received top honors in both English and literature.