Bloom High School - Bloom Yearbook (Chicago Heights, IL)

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eff 1-He: Bcoom FACTS ABOUT THE HIGH SCHOOL In the spring of l900. the people of Bloom Township decided by vote that a township high school should be established in the community in place of the old city high school. A Board was elected and in the following September B. T. H. 5. was opened in four rooms in the Washington School, with a faculty of three teachers and twenty students. A bond issue of 540,000 was approved for the purchase of a site and the erection of a building. ln l902, a new 535.000 school building was completed on the four-acre site lying south and west of the intersection of the two highways which have become famous as the Lincoln and the Dixie. This building. which forms the eastern half of our present building, was the pride of the township. In 1908 Mr. Boyer, the present principal. took charge of this high school and established a business course to meet the demands of a rapidly growing commercial city. Manual Training was made a department in l909. In l9l0, it was necessary to issue 350,000 in bonds to accommodate the new departments and the growing enrollment. ln l9l l, the new addition to the school was Finished, except for some space which was not needed at that time, and this with the original building forms the whole of the present school. Because of this addition. Domestic Science was made possible and new head- quarters for Manual Training were provided. ln l9l4. girls' physical training was introduced in the gymnasium which had not been completed with the l9l0 addition. - ln l9l6, more of the un- hnished rooms of the l9l0 addition were ready for use and boys' physical training was introduced at this time. There were now 3l5 pupils and sixteen teachers in the high school. ln l9l9i tennis courts were laid out in an acre plot north of the school on the Lincoln Highway, near the place where the old Town Hall had form- erly been. During the five years after l9l7, the school doubled its enrollment, so that it was necessary in l922 to purchase another building which was con- verted from a residence to the North Hall. This building contains four class rooms and a much-needed boys' dressing room. Our school's growth in less than a quarter of a century from twenty pupils and three teachers to six hundred eighty-three pupils and thirty-seven teachers reveals the progress that our township has made and goes to prove that. with the present rate of increase in attendance. it will not be long before a new school will have to be built. ROBERT BURDETT. .'Z4. 422i r t fl