Marilyn Panelli, who graduated from St. Peter Academy more than 64 years ago, is being honored by her alma mater for the life she has led since she left it in 1955. In a videotaped interview conducted by current students in advance of the 140-year-old school’s Alumni and Memorial Mass on Oct. 27 at St. Peter Church, Marilyn gave much of the credit to the Mercy Sisters who were her teachers at the parish school.
 
“They made me who I am as much as my parents did,” Marilyn said. “I probably would have become one of them if my husband hadn’t come along.” St. Peter pastor Father Moises Agudo, and University of San Francisco president Father Paul Fitzgerald, SJ, will concelebrate the Mass for the annual event.