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

Text from Pages 1 - 202 of the 1926 volume:

MlttEFENBMi THE BLOOM PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1926 Copyiighted 1926 Bloom Township High School Editor-in-Chief Adeline Trotier Business Manager Bdzvin Poorman TABLE OF CONTENTS opening Scenic S etches Book I — Administration Board of Education Faculty Book II — Classes Senior Junior Sophomores Freshmen Book III — Athletics Boys Girls Book IV — Organizations Music Dramatics Publications Book V — Features Departmental Progress Literary Commercial Progress DEDICATION WITH DEEP AND SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR HER LOVE AND GENTLE GUIDANCE HER ACTIVE INTEREST IN OUR ENTERPRISES - AND FOR HER READY HELP IN OUR DIFFICULTIES - WE - THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1926 HEREWITH GRATEFULLY DEDICATE THIS - THE 1926 BLOOM ' TO OUR SPONSOR MISS MARTHA HIELSCHER FORWARD OTAKiDlTiG on the Threshold of G- ' a new Era in our lives, we pause to recall the traditional Progress of our forefathers ; a Progress that came through years of toil and hardship. As we loo out on a new Future, we are stirred with that perseverance and energy so characteristic of them, and with that determination to obtain Success as they have done ; this sturdy pioneer spirit of Progress we have made the vital part of our Boo . w 1 svj V The Old Sauk trail was one of the roads that wound its way across the plains from Mis- sissippi to Detroit: this was the pony path of the Sacs and Foxes as they Went from east and west. This trail or road passed through the section where afterward grew the town of Bloom. Ot- X ' r In 18)5, the early pioneers of Chicago Heights, came from east and north across the Illinois country in the old prairie schooners. 1 he early pioneer families. — the McEldoWneys, Wat- laces. Caldwells. and Caskeys, were among those who settled, and laid firm the foundations of Thorn Grove, known as the town of Bloom. Twentu-seven mites soulh of Chicago there arew, in 1835, a little countru village along the Chicago Road, the former Sauk Trail. Here were gabled houses and Well kept farms. In-, 18S6. the first school house was established which afterward became known as the Little white school house. ' In 1865, the Jacob Kirgis home was established as the National Hotel. This hotel opened its hospitable doors to the many early travelers going south on the Chicago and Vincennes road, now the Dixie Highway. On Sundays the church bell of the Little White Church called those early settlers, the descendants of Covamnter forefathers, to worship within its walls. When the great industrial boom of 1890 occurred, thi young giant, Chicago, burst its bands, and Bloom became, ouer night, a busy hustling city. Then commenced the mushroom growth of what is now Chicago Heights with its seventy factories and flourishing banks. A .J ri Ti.  I The first school was built in IS36. About 1850. a small school, known as the North school, was constructed. In 1901 , the first township high school was finished, on the site, where now looms the massive and beautiful Bloom Township High School, overlooking the cross-roads of the great national highways, — The Lincoln and Dixie. TRADITIONAL EAST DOOR w u H ; w w H t— I O o o M w m 3= E. L. BOYER, PriiiciMi The man who, since 1908, has led the Hujh School through various stages of development to its present success. Fiftcer, W. D. DYER, Assistant Principal Sixteen c THE BOARD OF EDUCATION Back of our School System is a group of energetic men whose influence and interest are for the present welfare and future prosperity of Bloom. Mr. Macke and Mr. Eckfeldt, whose terms expired this year, were re- elected ; thus the Board remained intact to complete the extensive plans made last year. The Bloom management this year feels that the Board of Education has the success of Bloom at heart, and takes this opportunity to thank the Members for this interest. 1926 George Whitfield Harry Macke Wm. J. Mathews President George S. Angus J. J. Eckfeldt Secretary Seventeen L ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Florexce Wallace Eng ish (Head) She talks, we listen and admire. Her conversation does inspire. Ethel Mellinger Composition Valiant, is. ' isc, and ■well-accomplished. Bessie Stewart English By my troth, a pleasant spirited lady. Merle Turner Composition She has m.any virt:ies, but the most en- joyable of them all is her pleasantness. Ida H. Way English, Journahsm Thus her own proper u ' isdom brings in the champion honour. E. Pearl Hess Lilirariau ivill help you if I can. Mabel Hessler Freshman Enghsh How happy some, o ' er other some, be! Uightecn i= HISTORY AND LANGUAGE Adeline Smith American History (Head) .S7u ' is gay and cheerful and takes life as it conies. Richard Browne Economics He losctli not llie grace of jollity. Margaret Norman iNfodern History See how busily she turns the leaves. ' ]. Irving Talmadge [edieval History A schoolmaster well versed in music ' Viola Herr Latin (Head) Her grace in speech, her words y ' clad with wisdom ' s inajesly. Aloa Haskett Latin A friend to all is rare. Martha Hielscher German, Spanish like thy council, well hast thou adz ' ised. ' Nineteen h MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICAL TRAINING Graydon Mumford Solid Geometry The noblest mind he carries that ever govcrn ' d man. Ralph Briggs Advanced Algebra He thinks much, and says little. Marcblla Hartman Algebra God ' s rarest blessing is, after all, a good teacher. S. O. Legg Geometry love tranquil solitude, and such society as is quiet, wise, and good. Alice; Jirtle Algebra Her graces challenge grace. Cecil Sarff Athletic Director, Coach By his great authority, which always has prevailed. Leila Veazey Athletic Director ' Sweet health and fair desires consort your grace. Twenty SCIENCE AND MANUAL ARTS Altha Haviland Physiology, Botany Her mind is filled with Science. ' E. R. Nelson Chemistry (Head) A little nonsense now and then Is reUshed by the best of men. George Alvin Waldorf Physics ,..,,, . pi gi g Verily, I speak it tn the freedom of my So excellent in his art and still so rising. knowledge. W. D. Dyer Manual Training Oh, happy years! Once more, who ivould not be a boy! Walter Freese W. O. Pettys Mechanical Drawing Manual Training Tricks he hath in him which gentlemen Who s friend is her have! The boys, the boys! Twenty-one COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT AND DOMESTIC SCIENCE Alma Galster Shorthand, Typewriting (Head) And stilt she sinited and talked. Viola DuFrain Business Training, Typing A worker, tho ' always ready for a good time. Daisy Cameron Commercial Georgraphy, Commercial Arithmetic. How ealm and gentle she proceeds in all hey li ' orkj. Blanch Young Cooking (Head) We may live without friends, We may live without hooks; But civilised man cannot Live without cooks. Beatrice Parrish Business Training, Penmanship, ship G. Alvin Wilson ' ' ' ' ' ining way; a flcasant smile Bookkeeping, School Treasurer ; dimension and shape of nature, A gracious person. Mercedes Siedler Sewing, Home-making Kind is she, and gentle in her way. ' Twenty-two Flora Bliss Music ' hai ' e you merry, I ' ll bring you n ' hcre we shall hai ' e music. Ikma Ash Art For refutation, dignity, and for the liberal arts ivithout a parallel Mildred Grey PuIjHc Speaking Thy sfceeh seri es for authority. A FACULTY DICTIONARY ASH A tree of the olive family. The tree of the knowledge of ait. BLISS — Highest degree of happiness. Highest degree of musical ability in Bloom. BOY(er) — Lad. More of a lad because he has always been with the boys. BROWN(e) — A dark color. A light bringer to a dark subject. DYER — One who stains. One who teaches the staining of wood. HER(r) — A pronoun. A teacher of many pronouns. LEG(g) — An appendage. An appendage to the mathematical department. NORMAN — One from Normandy. One who teaches the history of Normandy. SMITH — Worker in metals. One who works with the history students. STEWART (steward) — One who serves. One who serves the English to Sophomores. Turner — One who turns. One who turns the pages of literature. WAY — Method of writing for papers — as the Broadcaster. Twenty-three r i When the first Dean of Girls left Bloom, the school struggled for three long years without such a helper. Then, the Parent-Teachers ' Association recognized the urgent need of a dean ; this organization, after much consideration, selected as the new dean of Girls, Miss Ora Theobald, who had previously been engaged as a teacher at Bloom. Miss Theobald has filled this position with a concientious sense of her responsibility so succesfully, that the girls of Bloom would be lost without her kind advice and cheerful assistance. When additions were made to the school the office was remodeled. Mr. Boyer had a sanctum of his own. The outer office was converted into a more administrative center where the students now receive individual attention, and thu faculty get in touch with the day ' s schedules. Here Miss Soderman presides. Her work is wide and varied, answering telephone calls, checking up credits for students,, from Freshmen to Seniors, writing numerous important letters, and straightening out many of the difficulties of the day. From eight A. M. until five P. M. she gives freely of her service with a pleasant smile for stu- dents, faculty or visitors. Miss Soderman has been Mr. Boyer ' s assistant and the faculty ' s right hand for many years and has won her way into the hearts of both students ana facultv. Twenty-four Twenty-five Carl Petersox Swede IVIiat well-afl ointcd leader fronts us here? Semester Honors. Spring ' 24, 26 ; Jun- ior Class President, ' 25 ; Senior Class President, ' 26; Councilman, ' 24; Glee Club, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Football, ' 22, ' 23, ' 24, Captain, ' 25 ; Basketball, ' 23, ' 24, Captain, ' 25, ' 26; Baseball, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Operetta, ' 26. Mary Moore Finding thy zi ' orth a limit past my praise. Semester Honors, Fall, ' 22, ' 23, ' 24, Spring, ' 23, ' 24; Latin Club, ' 24, ' 25; Bloom Masque, ' 25, ' 26; Baseball, ' 23; Volley ball. ' 26; Basketball, ' 26; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26, Representative, ' 25 ; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24, ' 26. Ethel Strandberg Stringie will the attempt for a worthy exploit. Councilman, ' 26; Basketball, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Baseball, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Volley ball, ' 26; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, President, ' 26. Leonard Helfrick Lenny He hath a cheerful countenance, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage Vice-President, Senior Class ' 26 ; Coun- cilman, ' 26; Glee Club, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Football, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Basketball, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Baseball. ' 23, ' 24; Track, ' 23, ' 24; Operetta, ' 26; Senior class play, ' 26. Robert Johnson Bob ll ' hat you see is the smallest part. Semester Honors, Spring, ' 24, Fall, ' 25 ; Councilman, ' 25, ' 26; Bloom Masque, ' 25, Treasurer, ' 26; Band, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Latin Club, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25 ; Radio Club, ' 22 ; Par- liamentary Law Club. ' 26 ; Basketball, ' 22 , ' 23; Track, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25 ; Bloom Staff, ' 25, Humor Editor, ' 26; Broadcaster Staff, ' 25, Circulating Manager, ' 26 ; Second Hand Bookstore, ' 26 ; Senior class play, ' 26. Helen Pahxke Len call tell you strange news that you yet dreamt not of. Glee Club, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Latin Club, ' 22, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25 ; Parliamentary Law Club, ' 26; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Bloom Staflf, ' 26 ; Broadcaster Staff, Editor in- chief, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24. ' 26; Basketball, ' 26; Operetta, ' 26; Kodak Club, ' 26. Claire McCormick Some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mis- chief. Hall Guard, ' 26 ; Bloom Masque, ' 26 ; Glee Club. ' 25, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24; Basketball, ' 22. ' Z}. ' 24, ' 25, Captain, ' 24; Baseball, -23 ; G. A. A.. ' 22. ' 23. ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Bloom Staff, Literary Editor, ' 26; Broadcaster Staff, Assistant Editor, ' 26 ; Operetta, ' 26 ; Senior class play, ' 26. Gerald Baker In good faith, he cares not ■what mischief he does. Assistant Commissioner of Publicity, ' 26; Glee Club. ' 25. ' 26; Football, ' 23. ' 24, ' 25 ; Track. ' 23. ' 24, ' 25 ; Bloom Staff, ' 26; Operetta, ' 26. August Koehler Augie Let the whole world see his noble- ness well acted. Commissioner of Public Improvements, ' 26 ; Bloom Masque. ' 25. President, ' 26 ; Band. ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Radio Club, ' 22; Football, ' 22, ' 23, ' 25; Basketball. ' 24, ' 25. •26 ; Track, ' 23, ' 24. ' 25 ; Bloom Staff, ' 25. Calendar Editor, ' 26 ; Broadcaster Staff, Advertising Manager, ' 24, Business Mana- gtr, ' 25 ; Senior class play, ' 26. Dorothy Royer Things done are won; joy ' s soul lies in the doing. Semester Honors, Fall, ' 22, 23, ' 25. Spring. ' 23, ' 24 ; Hall Guard, ' 24, ' 25 ; Glee Club, ' 25, ' 26; Music Memory Club, ' 24; Librarv Club, ' 26; Basketball, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Baseball, ' 24; Tennis, ' 25; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25. ' 26; Broadcaster Staff, ' 25, ' 26; Bloom Staff, ' 25, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24; Operetta, ' 26; Bloom Masque, ' 26. v bL William Ritter Billy A tall gentleman, by heaven, and a most gallant leader. Semester Honors, Fall, ' 25; Mayor of City of Bloom, ' 26; Hall Guard, ' 26; Band, ' 24, ' 25; Bloom Staff, ' 26; Broad- caster Staff, ' 26 ; Senior class play, ' 26. Mildred La Noue Mids Thy smiles become thee well, there- fore, in my presence still smile. Volleyball, ' 26; Basketball, ' 26; G. A. A., ' 22, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Bloom Staff, Departmental Editor, ' 26 ; Broadcaster Staff, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24, ' 26; i,ibrary Club, ' 26. Frances Beggs Fran There ' s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. Councilman, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Hall Guard, ■26; Glee Club, ' 24 ' 25, Treasurer, ' 26; Latin Club, ' 23, ' 24; Parliamentary Club, ■26; Volley-ball, ' 26; G. A. A., ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Broadcaster Staff, ' 24; May Festival, •23 ; Bloom Staff, ' 26 ; Operetta, ' 26. Robert Aykens Bob ' He will drive you out of all revenge and turn all to a merriment. Fire Marshall, ' 26; Councilman, ' 24, ' 25; Music Memory Club, Treasurer, ' 24; Bloom Masque, ' 26; Track, ' 21, ' 22, ' 23, ■24, ' 25 ; Bloom Staff, ' 26 ; Broadcaster Staff, ' 26 ; Senior class play, ' 26. Marion Adair With a smile the world aspires to. Semester Honors, Fall, ' 22; Latin Club, ' 22, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25 ; Parliamentary Law Club, ' 26 ; Bloom Masque, ' 26 ; Basketball, ' 23. ■24; Baseball, ' 23; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Kodak Club, President, ' 26 ; May Festival, ' 2i, ' 24; Senior class play, ' 26. Twenty-eight Adeline Trotier Ad By spirits taught to write above a mortal pitch. Semester Honors, Fall, ' 22, ' 25 ; Hall Guard, ' 25, ' 26; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Bloom Staff, ' 25. Editor-in-chief, ' 26; Broadcaster Staff, ' 26; May Festival, ' 2i, ' 24. Violet Eskilson Vi O spirit so still and quiet. Beecher High School, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Se- mester Honors. Fall, ' 25 ; Orchestra Beecher. ' 23. ' 24. ' 25. Bloom. ' 26; O. A A., ' 26; Bloom Staff, ' 26. Waldemar Wilkening He hath a U ' isdoiii that doth guide his valour. Hall Guard. ' 26 ; Bloom Staff, ' 26. Robert Krause My actions are as noble thoughts. Foothall. ' 22. Marie Hoffman knowledge be the mark, to knoiv thee shall suffice. Semester HikIi Honors. Fall, ' 25 ; Se- mester Hoiiors. Fall, ' 22, Spring, ' 24 ; Councilman. ' 23. ' 24. ' 25 ; Hall Guard, ' 24; Orchestra, ' 26; Basketball. ' 2i, ' 24, ' 25. ' 26; G. A. A.. ' 23, ' 24, ' 25. ' 26; Volley-ball. ' 26; Tennis, ' 25; Bloom Staff, ' 25; Athletic Editor, ' 26; Typing Award, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24, ' 26. e. Adkline Saller Sali.y She, ill beauty and eduealion, hold. hands with any princess. Semester High Honors, Fall, ' 23, |24, Spring, ' 23 ; Semester Honors, Fall, ' 23, ' 25, Spring, ' 24, ' 25 ; Secretary, Junior Cass, ' 25 ; Oomniissioner of Publicity, ' 25 ; City Ckrk, ' 26; Ccmiicilman, ' 22, ' 23; Hall (iuard, ' 25, ' 26; Hloom Masque, ' 25, Sec- retary, ' 26; Basketball, ' 23, ' 24; Baseball, ' 23 ' 24; G. A. A., ' 23. ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Hloi)m Staff, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, Faculty Editor, ' 26; Broadcaster Staff, ' 24, ' 25 ; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24; Library Club, ' 26. Evert Soderberg ' ' The business of this man looks out of him. Fire Marshall, ' 25 ; Commissioner of Public Safety, ' 26; Hall Guard, ' 25; Band, ' 24, ' 25; Football, ' 22, ' 23, ' 25; Track, ' 25 ; Bloom Staff, Assistant Business Manager, ' 26 ; Broadcaster Staff, Adver- tising Manager, ' 25. Bernice Miley Things done well, and with a care, e.reinpt thcinseh-es from fear. Beecher High School, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Se- mester Honors, Fall, 25 ; Orchestra, Beech- er High School. 23, 24, Bloom, 26; G. A. A.. ' 26 ; Bloom Staff, ' 26 ; Broadcaster Staff, ' 26. Elin Wismann Modest, demure, and loved by all who met her. Vice-President Junior Class, ' 25; Coun- cilman, ' 25; Hall Guard, ' 26; Bloom Masque, ' 25, Vice-President, ' 26; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Library Club, ' 26; May Festival, ' 24 ; Senior Class Play, ' 26. Kenneth Setterblade I ' m .ture care ' s an enemy to life Hall Guard, ' 26; Glee Club, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Orchestra, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Bloom Staff; Organization FIditor, ' 26 ; Operetta, ' 26. e. Edna Rauhut Oh, thou art wise, ' tis certain. Semester High Honors, Fall, ' 22, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, Spring, ' 23, ' 25 ; Councilman, ' 24, ' 25; Typing Awards; Remington Gold Medal, ' 24, I ' nderwood Bronze and Silver Medals, ' 24; Bloom Staff, ' 24; Office Assistant, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26. Margaret Chambers Peggy ' 7 hold ambition of so airy and light a quality. Semester Honors, Fall, ' 2.1, ' 24, Spring, •24, ' 25; Glee Club, ' 25, ' 26; Latin Club, •23, ' 25; G. A. A., ' 25, ' 26; Bloom Staff, ' 25 ; Broadcaster Staff, ' 25 ; Operetta, ' 26. ArIO La MORTICELLA A heart of (jold, a lad of life. Semester Honors, Fall, ' 22, ' 25 ; Coun- cilman, ' 23 ; Glee Club, ' 26 ; Basketball, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Baseball, ' 25; Operetta, ' 26. Edwin Nelson Ed It doth appear you are a worthy judge. Judge of City of Bloom, ' 26; Hall Guard, ' 25 ; Bloom Masque, ' 26 ; Glee Club, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Orchestra, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Band, ' 23, ' 24, 25; Basketball. 23, ' 24, ' 25 ; Bloom Staff, Alumni Editor, ' 26; Operetta, ' 26; Broadcaster Staff, ' 26. Dorothy Cohea Dot She is of so free, so kind, so apt a disposition. Semester Honors, Fall, ' 22, ' 23, ' 25, Spring, ' 23, ' 24; Councilman, ' 23, ' 24; Bloom Ma.sciuc, ' 26; Basketball, ' 23, ' 24; Tennis, ' 24. ' 25; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Bloom Staff, ' 24; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24. J J ■=3= Wilbur Sadler Sad Never was such a s::ddeii scholar made. Semester Honors, Fall, ' 25; Junior Class Treasurer, ' 25 ; Bloom Masque, ' 26 ; Glee Club, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Band, ' 23, ' 24; Basketball, ' 23, ' 24, Captain, ' 25 ; Base- ball, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Bloom Staff, Athletic Editor, ' 26 ; Operetta, ' 26. Dorothy Pierson Whose golden touch could alter steel and stone. Latin Club, ' 23, ' 24; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26 ; Parliamentary Law Club, ' 26 ; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24; Broadcaster Staff, ' 26. Ethel Anderson How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured. G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Basketball, ■23, ' 24; Baseball, ' 23, ' 24; Volleyball, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24; Typing Award, ' 26. June Carson Let music ' s tongue unfold the imagined happiness. Glee Club, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Orchestra, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; G. A. A., ' 24, ' 25; Typing Award, ' 24. Allen L,. Irwin None but himself can be his parallel. Commissioner of Publicity, 25, 26 ; Radio Club, 22 ; Orchestra, 25, 26 ; Band, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Bloom Staff, ' 25, De- partmental Editor, ' 26 ; Broadcaster Staff, Business Manager, ' 26 ; Typing Award, ' 26 ; Secondhand Bookstore, ' 26. 2_ ; Warren Diekenbach He, sir, is a good workman. Jolinson Bible College, ' 25; Hall Guard, ' 26; Bloom Masque, ' 26; Orchestra, ' 26; Band, ' 26; Bloom Staff, Art, ' 26; Senior Class Play, ' 26. Edna Hewes She is all hat t ' as the fairest of all. Orcliestra, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; G. A. A,, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; May Festival, ' 24. Margaret Hocking There is a kind of character in thy life, that to the observer doth thy history fully unfold. Basketball, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, Captain, ' 26; Volley-ball, ' 26; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Typing Awards, ' 25; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24, ' 26. Wendell Klemm A knight well-spoken, neat and fine. Goshen High School, ' 21 ; Topeka High School. ' 22; Beecher High School, ' 23, ' 24; Glee Club, ' 26 ; Broadcaster Staff, ' 26 ; Bloom Staff, ' 26; Operetta, ' 26. Evelyn Kreuger This young scholar, that hath been long studying. Latin Club, ' 22, ' 23 ; Remington Certi- ficate, ' 25; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24. Tliirty-four : Elizabeth Hood Betty She is lovely and fair, and Inter than truth ' itself. Secretary Senior Class, ' 26; Hall Guard, ' 26; Glee Club, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Latin Club, ' 23, Treasurer. ' 24; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Bloom StaflF, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23 ; Operetta, ' 26 ; Senior Class Play, ' 26. Ferna Van Voorhis A maiden never bold; of spirit so stilt and quiet. Semester Honors. Fall, 22 ; Hall Guard, ' 26 ; Bloom Masque, ' 26 ; Glee Club, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; G. A. A., ' 23. ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Bloom Staff, ' 26; Library Club, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24 ; Operetta, ' 26 ; Senior Class Play, ' 26. Wayne Storcii Envious of no man ' s happiness, ( lad of other men ' s good. Beecher High School. ' 23, ' 24, ' 25; Se- mester Honors, Fall, ' 25 ; Hall Guard, ' 26. Charles Wallrab Vicky His honesty rewards him in itself. Band, ' 24, ' 25; Latin Club, ' 23; Foot ball, ' 25; Basketball. ' 24. ' 25; Tr.-icl , ' 23 ' 24, ' 25; Tennis, ' 25. Margaret McKay 5 ! dwells so securely on the ex- cellency of her honor. Councilman, ' 23, ' 25 ; Latin Club, ' 23 ' 24 ; Parliamentary Law Club, ' 26 ; Bas ketball, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Volley-ball. ' 26; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24. ' 25, ' 26; May Fcsti val, ' 23, ' 24, ' 26. C2. Harold Seligman O full of careful business are his looks. Bloom Masque, ' 25, Treasurer, ' 26; Bas- ketball, ' 24, ' 25 ; Broadcaster Staff, Busi- ness Manager, ' 24, Assistant Business Manager, ' 25. Mary Towle Some say thy grace is youth and gentle spirit. Semester Honors, Fall, ' 22; G, A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; May Festival, ' 24. Ruth Pfeifer Jl ' hy, that ' s well said; a good heart ' s worth gold. Volley-ball, ' 26; G. A. A., ' 25, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23. Thor Carlson He hath, indeed, a good outward happiness. Semester Honors, Spring, ' 25 ; Football, 24, ' 25; Broadcaster StaiT, ' 26. (Illness prevented graduating) Virginia Johnson An apple cleft in two is not more twin than these two. G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; May Fes- tival, ' 23. 3 JJ ■ Gertrude Sauter A maid so tender, fair, and happy Glee Club, ' 25, ' 26; Latin Club, ' 23, ' 24; Basketball, ' 23, ' 24, ' 26; Baseball, ' 23, ' 24; G. A. A., ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23; Operetta, ' 26. Elmer Wehling With gentle, yet prevailing force. Intent upon his destined course Beecher High School, ' 22, ' 23 ; Council man, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26. Viola Johnson Roth are alike, and both alike, zve like. Semester Honors, Fall, ' 22; G. A, A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24. Florene Pensinger wouldn ' t be good if I could, and I couldn ' t be good if I would. Semester Honors, Fall, ' 22 ; Junior Band, ' 26 ; G. A. A., ' 24, ' 25 ; Library Club, ' 26; May Festival, ' 24. George Iwanowski You are an alchemist; make gold out of that. , Orchestra, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Band, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26. Florence Wallrab perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty. Glee Club, ' 25; Baseball, ' 23; G. A. A., ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23. David Stein He was neither sad nor merry: Semester Honors, Fall, ' 25. SOFIE Devatenos She is pretty, and honest, and gentle. Glee Club, ' 23; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24. Genevieve Houran Gen Like bright metal on a sullen ground. Stephen High School, ' 22, ' 23; G. A. A., ' 25, ' 26. Reuben Shlensky Shekels am a man that from the first hav ' e been inclined to thrift. Latin Club, ' 22, ' 23; Radio Club, ' 22, ' 2.i ; Basketball, ' 22, ' 23 ; Track, ' 25, ' 26 ; Tennis, ' 25. Thirty-eight , iflL Rhea Mattox was born to speak all mirth and no matter. Basketliall, ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; Baseball, ' 24, ' 25; Volley ball, ' 26; G. A. A., ' 23, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; May Festival, ' 23, ' 24, ' 26. MiNNETTE Wise What folley ' tis to hazard life for ill. G. A. A., ' 24, ' 25, ' 26; May Festival, ' 2i. Charles Giannetti He is famed for mildness. I ' arliamentary I,aw Club, ' 26. Mary Zaranka Falseness cannot come from thee. Semester Honors. Spring ' 23 ; Typing, Award, ' 24; G. A. A., ' 24, ' 25, ' 26. Dorothea Moore am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest. Typing Award, ' 25. Kathleen Miller Society is the happiness of life. Glee Club, ' 24, ' 25, ' 26: G A. A., ' 23, ' 24 ' 25, ' 26 ; Broadcaster Staff, Social Editor, ' 24 ' 25; Cafeteria, 25, ' 26; Literary Club, ' 25. John Cameli A willing, honest fellow. Band, ' 23, ' 24; Baseball, ' 25. Stanley Togersok He is a man of worth. Seinester Honors, Fall, ' 25 ; City of Bloom Firemen, ' 25 ; Cafeteria, ' 25, ' 26. I ' urtx-one v L CLASS HISTORY A band of noble adventurers started on a long cruise in the year of 1922 A. D. from the land of Know Little on the good ship, Education, with Loyal Hedrick at the helm. They sailed for a period of two months, and on the Fifth of September sighted land in the great colony of Bloom. Their purpose in leaving the old settlement was to explore new territory. They were welcomed by the old settlers who, like them, had come in search of the Fountain of Knowledge. At first their time was taken in investi- gating their new land, and learning the rules and regulations, inflicted drastically upon them by the unmerciful superior beings of the older and more dictatorial dwellers. Gradually they assumed the working spirit so vital to the welfare of the colony. As the first fall drew to a close, they became interested in the advancement of their great army the F. B. Team, and helped cheer these men on to victory. Finally, the keenest rival of the Bloom Settlement and their closest neighbors, jealous of this noble colony, declared war. Great preparations were made and the settlers held mass meetings in their Town Hall. In November, the armies met on the neighboring tribal grounds, and a decisive battle was fought, ending triumphantly for the Rloomites. By the end of the year, these settlers became so prominent that they gave a feast for all the members of the colony, and entertained them with some new and unique forms of gaiety. This established them as capable members. The second year of their sojourn in this settlement was made more note- worthy as they assumed some of the prerogatives of the pioneers, and parti- cipated in giving warm welcome to other adventurers who were interested in becoming pioneers of this country. This additional increase in colonists, all less experienced than themselves, inspired in them a feeling of super- iority, and ambition for greater achievements. The rapid increase of emigrants necessitated the establishment of a new form of government. Mass meetings were held and a committee was formed to draw up a constitution, which called for officers that would re])- resent the colonists. From then on, this became the recognized system. During the third year of their dwelling here, their keen foresight into the welfare of their band led them to choose a leader capable of directing their activities. After an exciting campaign and election, the noble Swede, Carl Peterson, was installed as governor of this group, who termed themselves Juniors, and he led them successfully for two years. The last year that the settlers spent in Bloom, they occupied the South Side of the territory and enjoyed the honor and prestige bestowed upon them, now the Seniors, by the newer colonists who, in turn, were making the same progress they had previously made. They were the social leaders as well as leaders in every other note- worthy event. They entertained the colonists with a ro3 ' al party in the fall ; just before they were prejjaring to emigrate to new fields, they assembled in May in the town hall, bringing with them their guests, and celebrated their last social event with gaiety and festivity. A most noted philosopher came to give them a farewell address, after which each received an emblem of his great deeds and progress; this could well be expressed in their motto, Deeds Not Words. Forty-lwo LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE CLASS OF 1926 We, the Senior Class of Bloom Township High School, County of Cook, State of Illinois, being of a sound and dispossessing state of mind, and, considering our present life as uncertain, do. hereby, in the presence of witnesses aiifix our signature to this, our last Will and Testament. To the Freshmen, we leave our athletic ability and our drag with the Faculty. To the Sophomores, we leave the yearly Prom, and our skill in originat- ing excuses. To the Juniors, we bequeath our reserved Assembly seats on the South Side, if they refrain from scratching their names on them ; also, our scholar- ship ranks in Economics, Chemistry. American History, etc. To the Faculty, we leave the remnant of the better behaved students of Bloom. To Mr. Boyer, we leave happy memories of an ideal class. To Mr. Dyer and Miss Theobald, we leave the work of finding the proper signatures of excuses and report cards of next year ' s Seniors, unless those Seniors have passed the hundred per cent honesty test. To Miss Wallace and Miss Smith, we leave less studious classes in English IV and American History. To Miss Way, we leave other Bloom and Broadcaster Staffs that may try to outdo us, if they are able. In order that we may not be the worst class that Mr. Nelson has ever seen, we leave to E. R. the 1927 Chemistry Class, and a Track Team that will function properly in championships. To Coach Sarff, we leave our chamjjion calibre in Football, Basketball, and Wrestling. To our beloved Sponsor, Miss Hielscher, we wholeheartedly bequeath our best wishes, memories of tulips and windmills, and the undying love of her .Senior Class. To the Board, we leave the task of planning a bigger and better high school, and our sincerest wishes for success. To Bloom, we bequeath our best wishes for the future, our loyalty to the Blue and White, and our copious tears at leaving. A select few of the Class of ' 26, being so well blessed that we have some personal effects which we wish to dispose of, do bequeath them to well deserving individuals of the other Classes. I, Allen L. Irwin, do bequeath my reasoning power and business ability to Joseph Arthur McGrane. I, Jerome Spafford, bequeath my attendance record and studious attitude to Howard Graham. We, Elin Wismann, Adeline Sailer, Mary Moore, August Koehler. Bernice Helme, Robert Johnston, and Harold Seligman, bequeath our ability in Dramatic Art to the aspirants to the stage from the Sophomore and Junior Classes. I, Edna Rauhut, bequeath my high scholarship standing to Bernice Champene. I, Bernice Miley, bequeath my originality to some memljer of next year ' s Bloom Staff. We. the five strong men of Bloom ; — Peterson, Poorman, Sadler, Helfrick, and Baker, leave our muscular prowess to the coming atl letes. Forty-three I, Rhea Mattox, leave my secret diet to James Ciarlo. We. the Senior executives of the City of Bloom, — Ritter, Sailer, and Nelson, hand down our accumulated knowledge of self-government to the younger generation. I, Kathleen Miller, bequeath my sweet disposition to Maureen Tighe. I, Warren Diefenbach, bequeath my fluent speech to Harold Littell. We. Helen Pahnke and Adeline Trotier. bequeath our Editorships to the most promising material in the Junior Class. I, Frances Beggs, bequeath my golden, curly locks to Columbus Gaetanio. I, Evert Soderberg, bequeath my mental poise and business activity to the Phips twins. We, the Senior Songsters, — Eva Johnson, Margaret Chambers, Betty Hood, Wendell Klemm, Claire McCormick, Margaret McKay, and others, leave our birdlike voices in care of Miss Bliss to be disposed of as she sees fit. I, Kenneth Setterblade, bequeath my Cinema technique to Paul Richer. I. Marie HoflFman, leave my cynicism to Francelia Wilkening. I- ' inally, we the Class of ' 26, do bequeath our outstanding good qualities to the future Bloom students. We, hereby, nominate and appoint Miss Soderman as executor of this, our last Will and Testament. In witness whereof, we do hereby set our sign and seal on this, the sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1926. (Signed) The Senior Class oe Bloom Township High School. • AS SHAKESPEARE KNOWS US Jerome Spafford — Age cannot wither him, nor custom stale his infinite variety. Betty Hood — You sweet little rogue, you. Allen Irwin — Trip it and go ' sweet ' — deliver this paper. Forly-four CCj SENIOES BRIGHT Seniors, seniors, shining bright! On our school they shed a Ught; Progress at our dear old school Depends upon the Seniors ' rule. What, oh what, may I inquire, Did their noble work inspire? Where ' s the champion could compete When a Senior ' s in the meet? College students give a sigh When they find he ' s from Bloom High. What ' s our chance to win renown When that boy from Bloom ' s around? Thus we find Bloom ' s brilliancy Startling students with degree ; So all we ever hope to be Dear Old Bloom, we owe to thee. luirly-fivi ' w Forty-six Forty-seven CL LOOKING BACKWARD A retrospect of the junior activities since our entrance into Bloom shows that the keynote of the class is Advancement . Under the school ' s supervision we have grown from timid freshmen to persons of importance in the school. ' We entered — most of us — by the same route ; and registration was an event that few of us will ever forget. After the various grammar schools had done their utmost for us, we came to Bloom a bit tremulous, but proud of the fact that we were in High School. , . i Since then, we have acquired a taste for, and a knowledge of the best litera- ture through our study of language ; we have sharpened our wits on difficult prob- lems ; we have broadened our minds by our study of the sciences ; we have learned the various athletic games, and have become loyal supporters of the teams, the class producing many of the best players. If we have struggled through the intricacies of Physics, we are full fledged Juniors. Apart from the scholastic side of school life, the class has been the sponsor of several parties that have aided the social life of Bloom. The common joys and difficulties have served to make the class grow more closely united. And now we stand at the threshold of the fourth and last epoch of our high, school life. We will try to make it the best of all for the class and for the, school, and we will endeavor to show, in a measure, our gratitude for dear old Bloom, which has done so much for every one of us. A NEW YEAR RESOLUTION I started a new pattern On the loom of life today ; For last night time came by, and took My old one far away. It was not a perfect pattern ; Its grade was only fair ; So, though it ' s gone forever, I really do not care. This new pattern here before me Is now concerning me. I want to make it perfect And lovely as can be. Fate will chose the thread and colors That I must weave each day. They may be silk of gold and scarlet Tinged with black and gray. They may all be of black and gray And of the meanest grade ; Yet I must work to weave a pattern Worthy and well-made. So, I resolve to do my best ; And when this year is o ' er To have a better pattern Than I ever had before. Forty-nine SEMESTER REGISTRATION Time — Registration Day. Place — Upper Hall. Scene — Mr. Browne, Junior Sponsor, dressed in a suit of armor and dec- orated with heroism badge, directing traffic with a megaphone and broadcasting equipment. Mr. Browne — Right this way. Juniors; try your luck at the wheel of chance. Get a lucky number and get good subjects. Try physics, easier than sight read- ing; learn electricity, get more density, and acquire magnetism. If you don ' t like that, Cicero is at your service — the dead language kept alive ! Around further on the wheel is time — saving English. Take it, and you ' ll never want to talk again. Don ' t forget Journalism. Take it, and you can spend your time reading newspapers all day in the library I Here ' s Mod- ern History ; meet Napoleon ; learn about Bismark ; and wish Louis XIV had never lived. Or maybe you ' d like sewing. Trim a hat ; ruin a dress, or pleat a skirt. These, and many more, will decide your future: a Roman, a physicist, an Englishman, a journalist, or a milliner, or tailor. TRigKT fK.j W J IJumora. TaK a cKawc £ ' ■ A spectacled, sleepy-eyed student with a grin on his face shuffles through the crowd. I ' ll try my chance on Latin again. It was an unlucky number twice, but I can ' t flunk a third time. As he makes his exit, a flapper giggles up to the wheel. Tee, Hee, I ' ll take English again. I was getting along fine on 3D ' s until the teacher told me my vocabulary was poor. I said, So ' s your old man. How did I know what ' vocabulary ' meant? As she leaves, she bumps into the grind, devouring a copy of Shakespeare, blissfully unaware of the world — I shall attempt to succeed with another year of German. Personally, I disapprove of Latin, since one does not speak it when traveling abroad. The next Junior to take a chance, win or lose, is an athlete, president of his class, and school judge. I ' m going to take Journalism ; I hear it doesnt take so much time. The la.st teacher refused to give me extra time because I didn ' t have my work in. Aren ' t teacher ' s funny? LINEAR CENSUS Of the three hundred or more students who attended the Junior penny social, two had to pay more than fifteen cents, being admitted by the size of their feet. Mayor Ritter used the contents of his penny bank to get in, and Mary Alice McElroy got in for a nickel. After they were in, some Senior boys wished the metric system were used in America. One hundred and fifty of the students had flat feet; forty girls wore more than 5j 2, and some freshmen came on skiis in order to equal Jerome Spaflford. Coach Sarff had the smallest feet, and Miss Galster the largest. Miss Stewart didn ' t come, and Miss Heilscher had to cash her pay check. Mr. Boyer wore his rubbers in order to help the class along a few cents. Thanks to Harold Meidell, the class made money at the door. v = DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, JUNIOR Sept. 5 — Another school year do be here : and whilst ye start do be much like another, there be this difference in that I have resolved to record the so- called high spots on this, my most important year, which everybody knoweth to be ye Junior Year. Oct. 12 — It seemeth that there be other places in which to be pinched by ye honorable cop than on the highway and the great downtown ; for this afternoon our high school did officially inaugurate the new guard system. Woe be unto him who unsuspectingly ventures into ye wilds of yon upper halls without a hall pass, which alone do permit of ye wandering ! Oct. 6 — A most strenuous day. Knowing that a good citizen be him who votes, did vote, and do now call myself a good citizen. Our city of Bloom, with its mayor, councilmen, and sundry other officials, do seem, to me, to offer a most fine opportunity to acquaint one-self with ye machinery of ye politics. Nov. 14 — Verily this day did witness one of the saddest happenings since that memorable day, five long years ago, when my doting parents did cast discretion to ye w ' inds and start me to ye high school. The unexplainable did happen ; and after a most hard any trying battle. Thornton, High School, after seven attempts, did beat us at the most dignified and cultured game of ye football. Nov. 20 — To Clinton, where our boys did administer a most sound beat- ing to ye Clinton High. Did seem to me as if they did be after revenge for ye defeat of last Saturday, for they did play a most hard and fast game, l e- thinks this town would be a mightily fair place to live in, for ye streets do be garced by most beautiful and winsome maidens in abundance. Dec. 3- — A most trying day, for this day did arrive at a most terrible misunderstanding with my best friend. As were driving home, did remark to him that I had had ye good coupe most two years ; and he tell me, that he bet ye honorable cops know it not. Did also have a sad thing, much like getting ye honourable boot and ye open door from ye home by ye fond male parent, happen to me this oppressive day. My doom was sealed when ye Powers- that-be decided that a locker inspection be in order. As my bookish abode did not have ye required number of parts to it, was told that my lease did expire that very minute. Did go away most sorrowful, thinking that ye lot of ye homer do be a most happy one. Fifty- one 1 1 Jan. 16 — A man did say that a synonym 1)e a word which one useth when he cannot spell ye other one ; but it seemeth that he be wrong, for neither can I find ye synonym or other word when I would attempt to describe ye Junior Party of ye sixteenth. Sufficient to say that I did think most highly of myself because were able to call myself a member of this illustrious class. ,A, Fel). — Did remark to my friend that Miss did pull something on me that I did not like, and he did ask, What? Did tell him, ' twas my ear; and he did seem very much amused, for which I could see no explanation. It seemeth to me that such things do but make the distance between the teacher and the student the greater ; methinks — but vanish, ill panorama ! I could think of something more to my pleasure. March 1 — Do be growing most neglectful as to my diary ; but this past February, with its trials and tribulations do be much like a l ad report card, The least said about it, the better. Do be now looking forward to yon tournament of basketball at Kankakee, for which I have ye Ijest of hopes, as it do seem to me that our team do stand a most remarkable chance of copping ye title because of past experience. March 12 — Ye tournament do l)e over ; and whilst we did not bring home ye proverbial bacon, did depart from yon famous town with the satisfaction that cometh with ye knowledge that one has lost through no fault that be one ' s own. Did lose by a most clcse score to Kankakee, but did make them work most hard for the victory ; in fact, they did work so greatly hard that they did be all tired out next day, and did consequently lose their next game. April 5 — Truly a terril le vacation, for it seemeth that King Winter do have an excess of snow which he very wickedly did proceed to pile three lengths high every day of ye (Spring) vacation. To bed each night with a weary back and aching head ; but did console myself with the thought, April showers — bring May flowers, and so forth. April 23 — The learned doctors do inform us that excitement do be very hard on the heart. I do most heartily agree with them for, this eve, did arrive home in a pityful and terrible state of nervousness which, it seemeth to me, doth have its root in the unusual activities which my heart do be taking up. It seemeth that it be most discontented with its present abode ; and when not thumping like a steam hammer, or a most ancient Lizzie, do be trying, in a inost alarming manner, to find a lodging in ye trusty throat. Hitherto, did look with most amused contempt at yon clownish attempts of my flustered, yet most persistent, friend to gain ye atten- tion of his charming friend across the aisle, who seemeth forever satisfying the vanity of her sex whilst making more beautiful her already beautiful face ; but, alas, it do seem that my time be here. Did have a picture of a certain most charming lass before my eyes ye whole day. At dinner did scarcely know what was eating, till ye honour- able padre did think it most wise (for the good of ye family purse) to inform me that catsup in coffee, sugar on meat, and the horse radish on ye dessert would most likely lead to dire consequences. To bed ; but methinks — Fifty-lwo r T M THE EFFECT OF PROGRESS— A PICTURE THE EFFECTS OF PROGRESS It was a spot intended by Nature to be a veritable paradise ; it was a secluded little valley; in the distance loomed the gigantic, forbidding cliffs of the Iron Mountains, which were brick-red in color, and precipitous in apperance, though somewhat softened by patches of mountain flowers, and tall, stately pines. By day, the sun sifted through the foliage of these monarchs of the forest, which grew profusely, yet majestically, in the valley ; and the sunbeams play- ing upon the greensward were like fairy dancers. A small spring bubbled merrily near the center of the paradise, and the sun, striking the transparent bubbles, transformed them into jewels which appeared to be worth a King ' s ransom. At the end of the vale was a dashing, leaping, twisting river, with a powerful water fall. At night, the moon covered all Vv ' ith a mantle of silver sheen, making it ap- l)ear even more beautiful than by day. Wild animals stalked sedately through the glade, to sip daintily at the spring, and later to throw off their cloak of dig- nity, and gambol on the soft springy sward at the side of the river. Fast-striding, irrepressible civilization had finally discovered the hidden glade ; factories had grown up beside the river and falls, which no longer dashed merrily along, but were harnessed to furnish fwwer to turn the wheels of the monstrous factory ; a vast pall of smoke obscured the sun which had once smiled down upon the peaceful valley. A gloomy, semi-dusk overspread the valley during the day, and by night the moon was no longer to be seen in its former splendor. The folks of the forest no longer tenanted the valley ; their places had been usurped by the hurrying, scurrying, nondescript crowd of the inhabitants of a factory town. The river by which they had so merrily and unrestrainedly gam- boled was no longer clear, and crystal-clear, for it had long been polluted by the refuse of the smoke-belching, paradise-despoiling factory ; and last of all, but a small part of the springy sward remained. ODE TO THE LIBRARIAN — By a Junior It was night — date night. Nevertheless, all the sweet little Senior girls were home studying . . . each one of them having refused her li ' l boy friend ' s invi- tation for the lure of an exciting evening at home in the family circle. Boloney ! B ' lieve that an ' we ' ll tell you some more ! Francelia Wilkening — It ' s a long Jane that has no curves. THE CRUCIAL HOUR It is the fifth hour. The first bell rings .... at last. A pale, but determined, little Junior is very carefully packing his books in a compact heap on his desk, contrary to the wishes of the Faculty who believe that every mo- ment counts, and that no one should deliberately waste five of these golden minutes under any consideration! (They never did when they went to school; and, to hear them tell it, one would think they had con- sidered it a great privilege to be allowed to attend school at all. Well, the pale, little Junior has his books packed by now, and we ask you to take special note of his appearanct does he not have that lean and hungry look that you have doubtless read about ? Note how his bones rattle as he moves ! How pathetic ! How heart-rending to see this poor, half-famished student. After he has his books packed in the most satisfactory, approved method, he tightens his shoe laces, (this one is wearing low shoes which he ties very carefully so that they will not be lost in the struggle he knows is going to ensue). He buttons his coat tightly, draws on a pair of heavy boxing gloves, and surrep- titiously places a football helmet on his head, fastening a wire net mask across his face. Some uninitiated reader is doubtless wondering what all this prepara- tion is for . . . the little Junior looks even more determined now, as he fiend- ishly grins from behind his mask . . . but I will tell you, he is merely preparing to eat his lunch in the cafeteria. After adding one or two finishing touches to his attire, such as fastening on a chest protector ... of the sort he has seen umpires wear . . . and wrapping a few ards of barbed wire around his waist . . . this being merely for effect ... he is ready ! The psychological moment arrives . . . The last bell rings! In one bound, the no longer pale, but still determined Junior clears the intervening rows of desks, and leaps through the doorway. A second later, we see him at the bottom of the second flight of stairs, lifting his feet high, leaping over the downtrodden Freshman, now and then picking a struggling Sophomore up bodily, and tossing him nonchalantly out of the way ! But that is a mere nothing compared with what is to follow ! Just view him ! He makes a very carefully calcu- lated leap o ' er the waiting throng at the cafeteria door, and, in passing, skilfully captures a tray before his feet again touch the floor. (We do not advise any Freshman to try this, because this Junior has been practicing dili- gently for a number of years to attain this degree of proficiency !) Even after all this trouble the Junior finds the cheese souffle did not get cjuite done, and he gets the last of the cocoa. At any rate, the Junior, stijl determined ... in fact, more determined than ever ... is eating his lunch with the air of one who fears the worst. The crackers are unusually good today, remarks a Sophomore who is contentedly eating his soup (yes, we know you heard him), and the Junior, in his aston- ishment, looks at the Sophie, only to find that he is munching a chunk of the Junior ' s plate. There follows quite a struggle, during which the . Sophomore consumes the remainder of the poor Junior ' s soup bowl . . . and we know he was saving it for the last bite, too! Well, we ask you, is it any wonder they had to get an ambulance, and carry the poor Junior out on a stretcher? Pifty-fotcr % ENGLISH BLUES I feel like a dangling participle. I never modify the teacher; she always modifies me. My feet are stringy sentences. They are long with no meaning but lots of noise. I never agree with my antecedent ; my old ' s man ' s a tightwad. Parked on the sofa at night, I always feel like a shift in tense. My brains are a fragmentary sentence — they stop too soon. My line is a trite expression, it ' s always the same. From the hand to the mouth, my knife shows poor coordina- ion. My verbs are bad in number. I use too many. I think I ' m an adjective — always describing something. I ' m an adverb — always short. My face is exclamatory — my head is interrogative ; and my absence is imperative. I blush like a misplaced modifier, and stammer like a parenthetical expression — never necessary. I often act like a relative clause, but never like Santa Claus. I bear signs of an apostrophe, something left out ; I made a dash for school and got treated like quotation marks — last but not least. A. Noun EXTRACTS FROM WEBSTER Extract No. I. JUNIORS .... Juniors are a superior class of human beings inhabiting the region of the earth known as B. T. H. S. They are possessed of great wisdom. While superior, they are not overbearing. Extract No. 11. FRESHIES . . . Freshies are veritable new comers to B. T. H. S. They are noted principally for their bright green appearance, and their amazing incom- prehensibility of Bloom studies, customs, and traditions. Extract No. III. SOPHS Sophomores are a class of people who are enjoying their sec- ond year ' s sojourn in B. T. H. S. They are just becoming filled with a false feeling of self-importance which they will discard upon becoming Juniors, and retrieve upon becoming Seniors. Extract No. IV. SENIORS .... Seniors are a people who were once Juniors but have lost their prestige upon leaving their former class. They are of a pedantic nature, and are inclined to be condescending and patronizing. Outside: A zero day. Bitterly cold — A white sun shining weakly through gray clouds — A sharp wind Bundled-up shivering passerby. Inside: A comfortable classroom — A nearby cozy radiator — A convenient back seat — Easy lesson — A good-humored teacher. Then: A queer sound — Surprised pricking up of ears — Higher, shriller sound — It can ' t be — but yes, it is — the fire siren ! A frown — a sigh — a hasty exit. Then : Cold, — biting wind — stamping of cold feet — rubbing of chilly hands — general shiver through crowd — a bell — scramble for doorways. JUNIOR COMMITTEE — Marjorie Chambers, Alice Leissing, Valda Swarm, Francelia Wilkening, Wilbur Mastin, Kenneth Setterblade. Fifty-six Fifty-seven THE SOPHOMORES ' PROGRESS Come, O ye Muses, or some magic, Guide my pencil as I write, Telling of the wondrous progress Of our Sophomores so bright: It was just two short years ago When first we entered Bloom; Our hearts depressed, our hopes were sunk. For every Frosh was filled with gloom. The reason for our secret dread Was caused by Seniors bold. You ' ll sure have a hot time, they ' d said, And we believed just what they told. The Juniors whispered gruesome tales Of German, French, and Caesar. Oh, soon we ' ll hear your frightened wails, Prophesied one teaser. They thought we ' d all remain forever. Just Freshies young and green ; (But they forgot that we ' re quite clever As queer as it may seem.) But their fond hopes soon took a fall, As you will gladly see. Why, Latin wasn ' t bad at all. Nor, yet was history. We ' ve learned to make a perfect speech With all the gestures, too. And now Geom ' s within our reach For our mistakes are very (few?) We ' ve learned to give our yells with zest, Real, snappy yells, they are. At basketball we are the best. And foot-ball too, by far. Now, if a careful ear you ' ll lend, Fm sure you ' ll plainly hear The Sophs ' fair voices sweetly blend In Glee Club songs so clear. We ' ve learned a lot this year, you see. And next, we ' ll learn lots more — Next year — I said — why, can it be? We ' ll all be Juniors, Sophomore! Dorothy Churchill r: - A TYPICAL PICTURE ASSEMBLY Ring— ring— ring— ring— ringggg— What ' s up ! Assembly ! What ' s the idea? Boy! that ' s a relief. These are among the numerous sounds heard every time there are four short, and one long ring of the bells. O ' f course, the expressions of pleasure are far more than those of impatience, for the simple reason that more of us have classes the next period than have assembly. Whn we hear that signal, we all meander leisurely upstairs (or down if you will), and stop to talk with every Tom, Dick, and Harry, or maybe with every Alice, Mary, and Helen, as our taste may lean. At last we arrive in the assembly hall, and take our seats. Soon Mr. Boyer reaches over and repeats the assembly signal, then rises, and starts an announcement. A group of belated students, usually girls, come stealthily into the room, as if to gain their seats un- noticed. However, this seems to be an impossibility, because as long as I have been in Bloom, I have not seen it accomplished. After all the announcements have been made, Mr. Boyer turns the meeting over to Mayor Ritter, who reminds us that we are going to have a basketball game tomorrow night with such and such a school (as if we could forget it!) Next he says, Now, we ' ll have some real, snappy yells! Out dashes Phips, who calls for B High, L High, etc., which we give with a will. Johnson follows with his inevitable Cha He, Cha Ha, Cha Ha Ha Ha. Then Griz pulls us through— Fight team, fight. As soon as the last agonizing sound has died away, the Mayor strides out from back stage, and proclaims that one of our renowned cagers will now address us. A great yell rises simultaneously from every throat, and heads are turned, and necks craned toward the place occupied by the Mayor ' s victim. Continued applause. Yet no one has gone to the stage. That doesn ' t stump Mr. Ritter, however, because he knows that he is lucky if one out of ten of the fellows on his program makes a speech, an.d so he promptly calls for another. Maybe this new one will speak, and maybe he won ' t. If he does, he gets up on the stage, with quaking knees, and gulps a few times, but words don ' t seem to come. He glances helplessly up, and quickly returns his gaze to his shoes. At last he mumbles something about support of the student body, and then retires ingloriously, amid the great cheering of the rest of us. Our boys may be invincible in the Gym, but on the stage — Oh Boy ! After a few more speeches by various students, and maybe a teacher, we hear that familiar expression from Mr. Boyer, — Sections ' A ' and ' D ' . A large group of students at either end of the hall leave noisily, and with profuse confusion, for their next class. James Worthy, ' 28 Sixty-one A DAY AT BLOOM September 7 and back to the old grind again ! Oh well, there ' s one conso- lation — there will be a new gang of Freshies to fool. I ' ll just show those young infants their place, I will! Cause now, I ' m a Sophomore!! Guess I ' ll wander down to the assembly and round up the gang. Just watch the Freshie ' s admiring glances when I walk in. Oh gee, there ' s Bill — what ' s his name — ? Hello, there Bill. How ' s it seem to be back at school? Well, well, here ' s a Freshie who doesn ' t know his place — let ' s fix him! Aw gee, I ' m no Freshie, I ' m a Sophomore! Didja ever see the like? Those Seniors don ' t even know a Freshie from a Sophomore. Oh well, Seniors are dumb anyway. Bunk! There ' s the first bell. Wonder how Mr. Legg ' s feeling today. Hope he doesn ' t ask me anything. Morning, Mr. Legg. Er — who? me? Why — er — I don ' t believe that was in my book — No-heh-heh ! Ugh — Latin. No, Miss Haskett, I had a headache and couldn ' t do much studying last night — yas ' m. Thank goodness! I can have a little rest now — sure glad I ' ve got 3rd and 4th vacant. Hot Dogs ! Gym, — whew ! Coach sure uses us poor kids hard ! Oh boy ! Now for the eats — I ' m starved. Wow! History!! If he calls on me — !! What — me? — why — er — I don ' t feel well, Mr. Talmadge. May I be excused? Boy, that ' s a narrow escape. Guess, I ' ll take a nap, next period. Well, here ' s where I leave for English. No ma ' am, I don ' t believe I know that. Aw gee, it makes me sick the way these teachers expect you to know every- thing. — Well, better luck next time ! Jane Leonard I have a little fiddle That tunes in and out with me ; Its strings are wrapped about my heart To keep me company. When I ' m sad it throbs with woe. And calls my grief its own ; When I ' m glad it boasts my joy In every grieving tone. When in my temper I grow rash And utter words unkempt, Its chords ring out in virulence And pulsate with contempt. But always when in sweet accord Its notes ring clear and true, I love my little fiddle most. For then it sings of you. Helen McEldowney Sixty- two . THE STUFF THAT COUNTS School spirit! That ' s what counts. If your ma won ' t let you g o to the basketball game, go anyway. That ' s school spirit ! If you haven ' t got the dough for a football game, go under the fence. That ' s school spirit! When the cheer leaders want you to yell, why yell, and yell, and yell, and then yell some more. (And do it when they don ' t want you to, too.) That ' s school spirit! If you get a longer assignment than usual, why smile, (if you can) and go ahead and do it. That ' s school spirit! When they want you to sing at the pep meetings, why sing, even if your voice is just a little discordant. That ' s school spirit! Ethel Hittton, ' 28 THOSE DAYS ARE GONE FOREVER The Freshmen days so happy and gay We can not live over — no never. We can only know them as a memory As those days are gone forever. We entered Bloom High in a determined way With a hundred and one endeavors, That we kept them is not for me to say But those days are gone forever. We developed our minds to a great extent We learned to be bright and clever. Many teachers and friends are with us still E ' en tho Those days are gone forever. Through another year we now must go We still can make good our endeavors; We should study and get all the fun that we can, Since those days aren ' t gone forever. Ingrid Johnson — Sophomore II. A X JUi.- i -e ' i - L -a-a-y - 1. il ' rJ ' = . X.u. -- -- (f r 7 -V ; . ' - - t ■ ' kl. (V Sixty-four = bl ONE EXCITING MOMENT TIME: Present PLACE: Any street in Chicago Heights. SCENE: A pompous senior is walking slowly down the street, busily thinking of how he ' ll look in his new suit, when he is attracted by sounds of argument coming from a garage. Being inquisitive (as all Seniors are), he draws nearer until he can hear the voice. But I must have that money. You ' ve kept me waiting long enough. The senior becomes all attention and softly draws nearer. The voice goes on. You say you have no money. Well ! you either get some before tonight or clear out. What ! Don ' t threaten me or you ' ll get hurt. Senior becomes excited at prospect of fight. Ha, you would, would you? Put up that knife or I ' ll turn you over to the police, the voice says. (Sound of scuffling.) Oh. I ' m stabbed ! I ' m stabbed ! Senior becomes frantic and does not know whether to yell murder or police, or to run. Finally, as all is still within, he musters all his courage, grabs a big stick from the ground, and rushes into the garage. He is horrified by what he sees, for there on the floor lies a young boy, his hand clutched to his side, his eyes closed. The brave Senior rushes over, but just as he reaches him, the boy moves. The senior kneels down and says, Who did it ? Who did it ? Tell me, I will avenge you. The boy raises himself on his elbows and says, in a bewildered tone. Who did what? The murderer! who is he? The boy looked more bewildered and says, What murderer? Why the man who stabbed you. A light dawns on the boy ' s face and he laughs and says, Why you poor fish ! I was just practising a speech for Public Speaking. Exit Senior. Joseph Whelan SIZZLING SWEATERS Sweaters Seen Around Bloom Noticing the number of hot, sheik sweaters at Bloom one would think Bloom a heating plant. Sweater is a good name for them because you ' re bound to sweat more in them than if you were running. They are the only rivals of the radiator. No one complains of cold hands any more because they can be warmed on somebody ' s sweater. Whenever it rains you can hear a lot of sizzling, but it ' s only the rain falling on these wonderful possessors of warmth. The merchants are starting to sell them by degrees. A few of the students have sweaters nearly 212 degrees. Now when people buy them they get the best one by this test : they wet their fingers and place them on a sweater. If there is a great sizzle, the buyer knows he has the right sweater for the greater the sizzle the better the sweater. If you go uptown in the daytime you will see that the store-keepers have canvas in front of the windows to prevent blinding passing people. They find that at night it is cheaper to place some sweaters in the windows than to turn on the lights. Roland Panzar, Sophomore IIA Sixty-five 3 EADIOGEAMS STATION B. T. H. S. (announcer) SOPH. O. MORE LaVaughn Cooley will make her last appearance in Grand Opera of this season on Tuesday, March 16, at the Aud itorium in Chicago. Dolcino Long has just received $1,000,000.00 after playing four games of pro football with the Bears, and scoring on the average of 52 points per game. Harold L,itell, the ex-janitor of the Chicago Heights Beauty Parlor was made manager, secretary and treasurer of the Elementary School Band of Chicago Heights. Joe McGrane, the country ' s most popular comedian, is playing to a crowd of 5,000 per day at the Apollo Theater in New York. Dora Arsowitz and Vivian Cox won the children ' s Charleston Contest at the Eincoln-Dixie Theatre. Marshall Cohen, the guy with the green gloves, just won the pie-eating con- test Boys ' Week. Edward Sheehan has made a large fortune as the giant in Barnum and Bailey ' s Circus. Lester McLaughlin has just made an improvement upon Caesar ' s Gaelic War based upon his profound knowledge of Latin. Dan Seifer is the President of the Wrigley Gum Chewing Club of the University of Illinois. Naomi M-cKee is now pitcher of the Chicago White Sox and is the only woman pitcher in the American League. Myrtle McAllister has just revised successfully the Webster ' s International Unabridged Dictionary. George Shapiro is the manager of the Debating Club of the University of Illinois. Mary Alice McElroy is Chief Cartoonist on the Chicago Heights Star. She expects to go to Chicago soon a.s a cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune. James Worthy (1927-1923 Mayor of Bloom) is now mayor of Chicago. Sixty-six fcM| INQUIRING REPORTER QUESTION: Why is the Sophomore Class the best in School? Where asked ? Drinking fountain, lower hall. Myrtle McAllister Because we are the smartest class in the school. We have a much larger per cent of students on the honor and high honor rolls than any oth er class. Marshall Cohen Me? Oh, that ' s easv. Whv, because I ' m in it. Why did you suppose? Heh, heh. Jane Leonard Oh, I don ' t know, really. It just seems to be the best general all around bunch. Martin Johnson We have the best class because we have the best school spirit. We have been here long enough to be interested and to have the best spirit at heart, yet not long enough to become sophisticated. Merle Sauter Whad ya want to know for? Oh, I see. Just a second till I get a drink. Because we have the best bunch of athletics in the school. Several of our mem- bers are stars, and every team in the school has at least one Sophomore in it. A Soph is captain of the track team this year. Sixty-seven Sixty-nine £ M = L FRESHMEN A ' S FOUR YEARS WILL TELL How fresh to my mind are the first days at High School, When everything thrilled me with joy and with awe. The teachers, the big hooks, and e ' en the assembly And stern Mr. Boyer who laid down the law. The far scattered class rooms, the stairs that led to them, Our kind faced advisor that helped us so well. The sophs and the juniors who teased us and peeved us. And then the proud seniors — oh. no words can tell — The frightened green Freshmen, The brave climbing Freshmen, The time is advancing And four years will tell. So don ' t worry. Freshmen, the time will be coming When you will be seniors so big and so wise. You ' ll be learned in ])hysics, in French and in history, And your records in High School will open all eyes, The Bloom Masque, athletics, the band and the Glee Clubs Will profit by you, who have all done so well ; And you ' ll be a model for all the new comers ; So don ' t worry Freshmen, four years will tell. Seveiitv-two ' =: STAY ON THE HONOR ROLL, FRESHMEN The freshmen have had more students on the honor roll than any other class. How do you think they did it? They worked. How proud they are when, at the end of the semester, their parents receive a letter from Mr. Boyer saying that they made the honor roll for the semester. Of course, the Sophmores laugh and scoff and say, We used to get on the honor roll, too, but it is too much work now. The Juniors say, Wait till you take physics ; then you won ' t get on the honor roll. The Seniors say, We are too busy with the operetta, class plays, and parties to bother. Graduating is all we care about. We work enough, to get passing grades. When you arc upper classmen. Do not shirk and slip; It is more of an honor then, — So freshmen, take this tip. — HazKi, Hoel. THE FRESHMAN AND THE BROADCASTER During February, of nineteen twenty-six, the freshmen edited a Broad- caster. The stafif consisted of Ralph Jones, editor, and Byron Johnson, busi- ness manager, besides the heads of the sport and literary de])artments. Many freshmen who were not chosen for editors of some department were made reporters and assistants. The paper was on sale February sixth, nineteen twentj ' -six, and was gladly received by the students. All the fresh freshmen were supplied with free co])ies of this Freshmen Masterpiece. A special Broadcaster pep meet- ing was held before the Thornton game, at which time the editor and business manager spoke. This was the first time in the history of Bloom that a freshmen class ever published a Broadcaster; but although they were not experienced journalists, they carried the enter])rise through with remarkable ability. Walter Estrup IF: Margaret gives, does Aileen Begg? Vernon is crazy is Hazel Hoel ? (whole) Margaret Jennings is the cream, is Clarence the Kohen? Dominick M. is short, is Dutchie Long? Chuck H. builds a house, does he need Moreland? A Freshie is green, is Walter Brown? Marie M. is dainty, is Dorothy full of Grace? Fred is the Baker, is Jeanne the Miller? Amelia has a cold, does Alice advise Leudens? Betty Mernitz Seventy-three MY FIRST SNAKE DANCE All the P reshies came very early on the night of Friday, November 13, 1925, to the school, because we wanted to be in the snake-dance and also find out everything about it. Soon, the time for the snake-dance to start came, and we were all put into line in a place near the end, where we would be jerked and knocked around. At last the snake-dance started. Oh, were we excited ! We had gone quite a way when we noticed that it was getting rough. One Freshie, the girl next to me, was jerked so hard that, like Cinderella, she lost her slipper. She went out, and the next girl caught hold of my hand. All of a sudden I was on my hands and knees ; and next thing I knew was that I was lying flat with about fifteen to twenty girls and boys lying on top of me. I thought I would never get out alive. After I got up (I wasn ' t dead at all), I found that I had a torn stocking and one bruised elbow. I thought this very little so I went back into line to get hurt some more. After we had walked, run, and fallen enough to suit every one, we went to the forest preserve to see the bonfire. How hot it was. Little by little, we had to move back and I guess the mud which was very soft was baked hard so that no one else had his shoes full of mud. Even though we did get our shoes all muddy, it was worth it ; because we had now found every- thing about a snake-dance, and we had made up our minds to see the hot and exciting game between Bloom and Thorton. A FRESHMAN ' S FIRST BASKETBALL GAME A Freshman once went to a basketl all game. She had never seen one, and of course, since she was in high school, she wanted to back the school team. She scouted around, and got a sophomore friend to go with her. The game was an exciting one, and the Freshman was thrilled and ver}- talkative. Oh. I think this game is the most exciting I ' ve ever seen of any kind, she would exclaim every few minutes. What are they letting him throw the ball that way for? What did you say? That ' s a free throw? Do they usually charge for throwing the ball in the basket? That must be rather expensive for the good basketball throwers, isn ' t it? Why do they bounce that ball and run that way? That must be fun. I wouldn ' t mind doing that myself. I used to do it a lot, only my ball wasn ' t so large. Look at that man waving his arms. He looks like he ' s in distress and sending an SOS, only he hasn ' t any flags. What do they call that? Guard- ing? How funny. I always thought guards were armed and guarded a penitentiary or something like that. End of Third Quarter Say how many quarters do they have in the game? Seems to me they have quite a few. Oh, is the game over? I was just beginning to grasj) the idea of the game. I ' m just crazy to see another one. When ' s the next game? Next week? Well, they can count me in on it, right now. ' ' Florence IcCoy ScTJenty-jov.r A TRIP TO THE FIELD MUSEUM Oh, look at this big l)ird, exclaimed Betty. We all rushed to the case, and there was a beautifully colored bird, looking almost life-like. One exclamation followed another while we watched the amazing things at the Museum. This was the day that Mr. Talmadge had taken his Physiology and History pupils to the Field Museum. There were many birds and animals. The birds were himg by strings which made them look as if they were flying. The monkeys, bears, wolves, and foxes were interesting. One thing I liked was the costumes of the dififerent people from other lands. The Chinese were dressed in bright colors and had head dresses of jewels. The Indian costume was shown with its usual beads and trinkets ; the hat also made of bright colored feathers. The scenes of the life of the people were interesting. Some of the people were carrying water; some building houses; others dancing. In one place there was shown the cruel treatment of the Chinese. Their eyes were taken out ; their bo(l_v cut in half. At lunch time we all went down to the cafeteria. Everyone took a platter and what he wanted to eat. After we had eaten, Mr. Talmadge took us to the room where the mummies were and told us to stay there imtil he came back. We soon became tired of looking at mummies, so we went upstairs in an elevator to look at the jewels. There were more than you can think of. Guards stood at the doors so straight and stifif that I didn ' t know they were there until I startled to see them move. We decided that we would go upstairs and look at the plants. We rang the bell for the elevator and a cross man poked out his head and said in a grufif voice, Were ' nt you in this elevator before? It was getting so late that we decided to go to the Public Library, but we didn ' t see very much of it for that reason. We took a taxi to the Dear- born Station where we took a train which bore a happy crowd of boys and girls home from the well remembered trip to the Museum. AN INTRODUCTION TO PIG-LATIN Pig-Latin is an odd language used mostly for amusement. It is very in- teresting and easy to learn. In writing farmer in this language, you leave off the first letter and put it at the end of the word and add a, which is a sign used at the end of ever}- word. The word farmer, in Pig-Latin, is now spelled armerfa. See if you have accomplished any knowledge from this introduction, by translating the following Pig-Latin into English: Reshmenfa Rophecypa Heta reshmenfa foa Idoa Loomba Iha-Reaa eryva, eryxa, ashfulba ndaa hysa. Utba fia heyta orkwa veryea ayda Hista ogetherta ithwa laypa. Illwa akema hemta isewa eniorssa yba ndaa yba. Nondas Morctti Eva Stcincrt Seventy-five mm g ti MY FIRST OPOSSUM HUNT The place was southern Alabama, and I was about eleven. The boys had gathered with the pack of dogs. I was getting ready to go on that long-prom- ised opossum hunt. Hey, you in dar ! yelled Max, the largest boy in the group. Come on out of dar with dat hound of yourn. We ' re gwine to make dis pack number a hundred before we git dar. ' ' I brought my dog out and added it to the pack, which made it about a dozen. We started for the swamps and reached there about dusk. It was raining, and the night was already get- ting dark. The trees, bushes, and vines made it still more difficult. We were four small boys entering into a dark and dan- gerous swamp ; dangerous because there were plenty of snakes of all kinds, for it was in October. Rut we had put all this aside and were looking forward for an opossum or two. . 11 at once, my dog let out a series of short barks and then a couple of howls as if at Ijay. Come on, you guys, said James, the second largest boy. Let ' s git dis possum. Don ' t kid ye sef, said I. I know dat dog. Dat could be anything from a crooked stick to a ba ' ar what he ' s barking at. Come on and let ' s git your old ba ' ar, said Roosevelt, the second smallest boy in the group (for I was the smallest). What ' s the use of arguin ' ? Let ' s git some action in dis hunt. We lit a torch and went to the dog who was going around in a circle, barking at something. Max was the first to reach the dog. Look shore ' nufF all round one. He ' as got a Moccasin heah, big ' s my upper hind laig. As it was, there was a large copper bellied moc- casin lying all curled up watching the dog and ready for battle. I grablied a long stick and struck at him. This got my dog, Rover, who seized him about sy] the belly and gave him a couple of slings which l)roke his neck. We proceeded on otir hunt just as if there had been no snake. Then we had got about a mile into the swamps where the trees and vines are thickest, where the sun seldom shines, where some of the worst ghosts are said to have been seen and heard, we heard Pat ' s yelp to the North. We went in that direction. Such a going as it was! Every two steps we stumbled into a mud hole about knee deep, formed by the falling rain. At times we van into trees and vines caught around us and jerked us down, for it was so dark we could not see our hands held out in front of us. We ran into a small stream before we knew it, and almost had to swim to get across it. Pat was traveling to the north as fast or faster than we w-ere. Say dar, said James when we were going pretty good. Dat dog is gwine over t ' ward dat ole ' Hope Well Church ' ; and don ' t you all know dat dair is a ole grave yard dar? What do we care about a ole grave yard? replied Max rather bravely. Dem folks is all daid. Don ' t git too brave, Max, said L Don ' t you all remember what my grandfather saw dair? Naw, what was it? asked Max. , Sn ' eiity-six r ' . b£ V ' $ .. jfi W ' y he said one night he pasted dar ridin ' ' ■ J F; hoss back and another hossman come out of dat Nl vi? ' -f grave yard ridin ' a gray hoss with eyes large as his ' !% l f % fist and red as fire. He chased him all the way ' ' CW? i - home. All the time we had been talking, traveling had become better, and we had reached pretty near to where Pat had treed. To our surprise, Pat was not far from the old church. It was an old log church, which had not been used in about fifteen years. The church sat upon a little hill, and a grave yard was back of it not far from a small stream. We had come upon this place before we knew it, and were startled by a howl from one of the dogs. Oh my Gawd ! exclaimed Max, grabbing his hat and setting out at a pace equal to that of a race horse. Dar comes de Devil himse ' f. At this I looked up, and what I beheld was enough to put Pharoah ' s army to flight. Coming toward us was a horseman riding a white horse with eyes as large as saucers and red as fire. All except me followed Max ' s example, but I ducked behind a tree as if to let the horseman pass. To my surprise he didn ' t pass, but faded away before he reached me. I came from behind the tree and yelled to check the retreat of the other parties. Hey. ye se ' f yelled back Max. I ain ' t gonner let nobody run over me ridin ' sech a hoss. Where ' d dat thing go to? asked James, the first to get courage enough to come back. Dat thing is done gone on back and tend to his business, said L We ' ad bettah go and see what Pat has. W atch yo se ' f he ain ' t got one of dem hants up dat tree, said Roose- velt as we were coming up to where Pat was. Dogs don ' t care what dey tree. W ' hen we reached Pat, he was sitting on his haunches looking into a bunch of huckleberry bushes. Here we were, a bunch of wet boys without a weapon of any kind except an ax, and no more matches to make a light with, and could not see our opossum. Furthermore, we were scared out of our wits, for where Pat had treed was just back of the grave yard in a little thicket on the banks of the little stream. I seemed to get back my wits before the others, for I said to the boys, Watch a guy that ' s got brains in his head and not saw dust. I went and kneeled down beside Pat and looked straight to the place where he was looking. To my astonishment, I looked right into the opos- sum ' s eyes. I traced the tree he was in to the ground, and had James to start cutting it. Seventy-seven When the tree was ahnost cut down, the opossum jumped down upon a log at the edge of the water. Behind him went the dogs, on top of them went I. Through all the snapping and growling of the dogs, I came out with the opossum. The next day was Sunday, and may I never for- get that day ! There we were seated around a long table, knives and forks in hand, just as alert as if we were going to fight a duel. In the center of that table was that opossum lying on his back in a I)latter with sweet potatoes all around him. U ' m, u ' m ! I can taste that opossum yet. WERT COBB. Illustrated by Eugene Frazini. NIGHT IN ITALY Looking down on an Italian village The night was beginning to lower. I was sitting on a balcony looking down on the peaceful village of Castel Di Sangro. A man, riding on his donkey coming from his day ' s work, attracted my attention as he came up the winding street, and disappeared again as he turned the corner. At the center of the village, were men sitting at tables outside the Cafe Milano, and people walking up and down the lighted piazza. A fountain in the middle of the piazza spurted up its water to the night air. A woman with a pail on her head made a silhouette as she went away with her pail filled. The silence of the night was disturbed only by the ringing of the bell of the church, announcing the Angelus Domino. Una Screnata When the neighborhood lies sleeping peacefully and the moon has risen to its full height, music can be heard in the distance as young men approach with their guitars and mandolins, to give a serenade to some Isella signorina in the neighborhood. As they approach, some of them are talking and some are singing. Wlien they reach their destination, silence reigns over the neighborhood, except sometimes for the tinkle of a chord of the guitar or mandolin made as they tune up their instruments. Then the silence is broken by the merry music of a song, Comm e Bella La Staggione. followed by other songs, Salome, and Tic e Ti, Tic e Ta, and then silence. A sudden light and then no more ; only the red dot made by glowing cigarette against the shadow of the night can be seen under the signorina ' s balcony. The serenade has ended, and the young men are moving away down the winding street, to some other signorina ' s balcony. Eugene Frazzini. Seventy-eight ■ mw ' THE CONFESSION OF A FRESHMAN I thought that when Fd enter Bloom Fd feel so great and tall ; But now Fm here, it ' s mighty queer, I don ' t feel that at all. I really think that I have shrunk, And lost a lot of weight; And oh, my dear the ' re times I fear About my mental state. Whenever I pass thru the hall. The seniors stare and stare ; And juniors, too, quite often do What I don ' t think is fair. Life is not what I thought ' twould be ; When Freshman days are done Let me tell you a fact that ' s true, I ' m going to have some fun. -Phyliss McGrane. GLADNESS I ' m glad the sky is painted blue. And the earth is painted green, And such a lot of nice fresh air Is sandwiched in between. Aileen Beggs. ( ' ) . ,-JJ im A f nninrinDtiii - cSS= COACH SARFF A graduate of Drake, where he received several letters in major sports, Mr. Sarff came to Bloom last fall and built up a supposedly weak football team to one of the best teams Bloom ever had. Much credit is due Mr. Sarff, because of his knowledge of coaching, and his authority over Bloom ' s athletes, who were always in condition from their coach ' s training. His ability as a basket ball coach was supreme ; as he assembled a team that was feared by all opposing teams. Mr. Sarff also taught wrest- ling with the idea of building up Bloom ' s future foot b all players. E. R. NELSON Mr. Nelson, athletic manager and track coach, has been connected with Bloom for more than a half dozen years, and is responsible for building up the strong school spirit which emphasized for Bloom its well-known reputation as a school with athletic ability. His careful selection in scheduling opposing teams is of a nature which draws the crowds to the Bloom field. He has not only the genius of being an Ath- letic Manager and track coach, but he can also coach basketball and football with success. W. O. Pettys, Assistant Coach As an assistant coach at Bloom, Mr. Pettys has proved very successful. He took an interest in coaching the line in football and, therefore, spent most of his time on the lineman. Mr. Pettys con- tinued this year with the lightweight basketball and, under his guidance, a remarkable lightweight team was built up. The team, until the loss of three of his players, was considered almost invincible. Eighty-one Carl ' Swede ' Peterson, captain, halfback, was the out- standing actor of the team. He skirted the ends at will, and threw passes which were responsible for many touchdowns. When hitting the line, he was alwa s good for several yards. Vivian Cox, fullback, as a plunger was there. It was merely necessary to give him the ball and a small opening to start with, and all could rest assured that a first down would be made. Theodore ' Teddy ' Meyers, halfback, playing his first year of football, showed considerable ability as a hard hitter. Teddy always had the fight. Elmer ' Al ' Jaffe, quarterback, also played his first year of football. He sur- prised the spectators with his speed and his skill in handling the ball. Edwin ' Bud ' Poorman, end, played superbly all the games. He was fast in covering punts and was always open to snatch a pass. His ability as a kicker deserves mention. On almost everv occasion he was called back from the line of scrim- mage to boot the oval. Harrv Patterson, guard, held his position in fine fashion throughout the whole season. Very seldom did Bloom ' s opponents pass him for long gains. Edwin ' Duke ' Doloway, tackle, was a pillar in the line ; hurrying the enemy ' s punts and checking all punters were his favorite hobbies. Gerald r aker, guard, was invincible. Yards made by the opponents through his po.st were precious distances. - Bl Jack Lanninj;;, end, not only grabbed passes and covered punts in collegiate form, but also prevented the opponent ' s back from circling his side for long gains. He was a marvel on both defensive and offensive playing. Everett ' Red ' Soderberg played stellar football throughout the season. He v ras very consistent in making holes for his backfield teammates. August Koehler, possessed all the qualities of a Big Ten pivot man. His passes were accurate at all times. As a line man he could not be beaten. Leonard Helfrich began the season as a end, but his size and speed com- bined to strengthen a seemingly weak line. As a tackle, he was one of the best in the league. He was a whirlwind in breaking through the line. fooioall. Merle His coolness at Loyal Hedrick was the outstanding tackle on Bloom ' s team. Time after time he broke through the opponent ' s wall and blocked punts. Merle Sauter, quarter back, played his first year of showed Bloom that he will be a ' Star ' in the coming years, unsettled times in the games proved him fit for his position. Dolcino Long, halfback, was one of the team ' s fast and dependable backs. Although only a freshman, he has displayed future championship qualities. Bion Murphy, end, played as well as anyone on the team. His fighting spirit and alertness showed that he was Irish. Murphy troubled the opponent ' s backfield, everytime, by turning in all the end plays. Aurora 7. Bloom 6. It was hard to lose the first game of the season, by such a margin, but considering the mettle of our opponents. Bloom ' s supporters returned home well satisfied that they had a team worthy of representing their school. Captain Peterson furnished a seventy-yard run while the whole team showed splendid fight and spirit. Bloom 14. Pullman Tech 0. The Bloom fellows found their true stride, and had little trouble in overcom- ing Pullman Tech. The line showed marked improvement on the defense, and opened large holes on the offense, through which the back field traveled for con- sistent gains. Two hundred twenty-nine yards gained, to our opponent ' s sixly- one, tells the story. Bloom 7. L,A Grange 0. The team had obtained a taste of victory the previous week, and was not to be denied this, in the first Suburban League game of the year. Hedrick broke a seeming deadlock when he smashed through, and blocked a punt, downing the ball for the only score of the game. Poorman ' s work, at end, was a feature. Deerfield 7. Bloom 0. A tougher game to lose would be hard to imagine ! Deerfield came out with a highly touted team, but was played to a standstill, having only to call on Dame Luck for a win. Deerfield kicked in the last minute, and one of her players raced to a touchdown after recovering a fumble. Bloom 7. Riverside 0. The score in this game was little indication of Bloom ' s true supremacy. Backed by the band, the team was invincible in new suits. The wet field was a handicap, but it was overcome in great fashion. Bloom gained two hundred fifty-three yards; Riverside eighty-eight. Bloom 7. K. K. K. 0. Kankakee ' s invaders, although heavier than our boys, were turned back, and their consecutive string of voices broken. Bloom ' s line was largely respon- sible for the result; Kankakee was able to make only one first down. Thornton 6. Bloom 3. Although our team obtained the small end of the score, it put up a fight, and Thornton ' s margin of victory was only the slimmest. Cox ' s place kick was Bloom ' s only score, despite the fact that Thornton was outplayed in yardage and in first down. Bloom 12. Clinton 6. The team capped a successful season with this victory over a strong opponent. Captain Peterson, playing his last game, was a tower of strength. Every player was on his toes, and took advantage of all opportunities. The Clinton boys were clearly outplayed, their defeat being clean cut and decisive. SCORES FOR THE YEAR Bloom 6Aurora 7 Bloom 14Pullman Tech. Bloom 7LaGrange Bloom ODeerfield 7 Bloom 7Riverside Bloom 7K. K. K Bloom 3Harvey 6 Bloom 12Clinton 6 Total Points — Bloom 56 Total Points — Opponents 26 BLOOM ' S NEW FIELD HOUSE Bloom has its athletic field and is very proud of it ! Now Bloom ' s athletes can trot forth upon a field as fine as any in the league ; one they can return to in later years, and upon which they can retrace their hard fought battles. Covering twelve acres, and filled with a colorful crowd, it presented, last fall, an inspiring picture as the football fans poured in for the first game. Many of Bloom ' s fans had already seen the baseball team in action upon the new diamond before the field had reached completion. Perhaps the field looks so well as an entity, that we should be contented with admiring it as such. There are many details of this field, however, each having its particular function, that ought to be noted. The first to greet one ' s eye, is a strong wire fence with a small gate over which Mr. Nelson keeps faithful guard. Inside is the gridiron, flanked by bleachers with a capacity for at laest 5000 people ; around these is a quarter-mile cinder track with a two hundred twenty yard straight away, upon which Mr. Nelson ' s track men will show their flashes of speed. On the west side of the enclosure, is the baseball field. There is plenty of room for the outfielders to roam, and a substantial back- stop to keep foul balls from topping over. To the south stands the Field House. Complete in every way, it offers hot showers to the weary athlete after his strenuous labors. As fine as our field is, however, Bloom should remember that it would never have existed, but for the untiring efforts of Bloom ' s friends and the Board of Education ; and furthermore, it would be of little use now, were it not for the coaches ' work in moulding teams. Eighty CARL PETERSON, Captain Well known for his fighting spirit and wonderful energy, he never seem- ed to tire. Due to the semester ruling, he was ineligible after February, and the team suffered a great loss. ARIO LONG, Guard Always in the fight when the oppon- ents had the ball in his territory, he was the hardest fellow on the team, and few fellows could evade him. VIVIAN COX, Fotward Rather small 1)ut quick and fast, he was a good floorman, and not only good on the offense, but also on the defense. He worked well with Wolff. HARRY PATTERSON, Guard He met them as they came, and al- ivays broke up the opponent ' s team work. Patterson held the guard posi- tion in fine style. Ninety C5_ r EDWIN POORMAN, Guard His ability in getting the ball off ot the backboard, and working the ball down the floor were two of the prin- cipal causes of Bloom ' s winning sev- eral of its games. ROBERT MILLAR, Center Never fast and never slow, he al- ways seemed to cover the floor and was always there when needed. MERLE WOLFF, Foru ' ard Light and small enough for a light- weight. Merle was transferred to the heavyweights in February. Due to his clever floor work and superb basket shooting, he was considered the best player on the team. VERNIE RUST, Center Vernie said little, but in the game he piayed his part. Rust was always cool and one of the smartest players on the team. (2_ JA rES GAFFNRY, Guard-Captain He took the responsibility as captain to pilot the team through a successful season. He worried his opponents, as he was not only a good guard, but could toss the long ones with skill. DOMINIC GUZINO, Forward Unknown to Bloom ' s basketball fans before the season started, Dominic soon proved his skill as a basketball player. He won several games by making the last minute shots. DOLCINO LONG, Guard Long was always in the thickest scramble and always came out on top. He could keep cool or hot, whichever was needed most. The opponent ' s forwards feared him, as they could not pass him. WALLACE CALDWELL, forward A coming player is Wallace, for he could handle himself nicely, and work the floor with his teammates in ex- cellent stvle. Ninety-two WALLACE AIEIDELL, Center Ever playing a good steady game at the center position, he was strong in teamwork and always assisted the forwards in their basket shooting. LEO FRIGO, Forward Leo helped the lightweight team con- siderably because of his height. He was not a spectacular player, but a good, dependable one. WILLIAM NICOLAI, Guard As he could play both forw-ard and guard, William was an asset to the team. His playing turned mostly to team work. The lightweight team will use him ne.xt year. DONALD GRAHAM Another tall fellow who could grab the tall ones, and work the ball down to his own goal, was Donald. He was also good on the defensive. Skcond Row : Harry Patterson, Robert Miller, Jack Lanning, Alfred Herr, Bion Murphy. First Row : Merle Wolff, Edwin Pocrman, Carl Peterson, Coach Sarff, Vernie Rust, Ario Long. HEAVYWEIGHT BASKETBALL Prospects for a successful basket ball team were not good, as Coach Sarfif had only Carl Peterson, Captain, and ' ivian Cox about which to build a team. Despite this fact, Ario Long, who played with the lightweights the previous year, filled in a position as a guard, with Edwin Poorman, who also showed class as a basket ball player. But a short time elapsed before Merle Wolff, Vernie Rust, Jack Lanning, Harry Patteron and Robert Millar proved that they could play competitve ba.sketball. Scores for the year Momence 14 Bloom 19 Momence 14 Bloom 14 Bloom 10 Bloom 12 Bloom 15 Bloom 26 Bloom 24 Bloom 29 Bloom 11 Bloom 16 Blootn 22 Watseka 2.3 Hammond 18 Blue Island 15 Blue Island 4 U. High 30 Watseka 17 Deerfield 14 Bloom 18 Bloom 22 Bloom 14 Bloom 21 Bloom 28 Bloom 15 Kankakee 20 Harvey 21 Deerfield 15 U. High 32 Kankakee 18 Harvev 17 Reddicic 8 Kankakee 17 Total— Bloom 316; Opponents 297 Ninety-four Third Row; George I ' hilips, Dolcino Long, Dominic I ' andolfi. Skcond Row : Wallace Caldwell, Francis Goncher, Leo Frigo, Wi liam Nicolai, Harry Bailev. Front Row : Donald Graham, William Dyer, Captain Gaffney, Coach I ' cttys, Wallace Meidel, Dominic Guzino. Lightweight Basketball Bloom ' s lightweight squad appeared to be the best Bloom had ever had. With Hammers Pandolti, Thomas Smith, Wallace Meidel, Francis Goncher, James Gaffney as a team, they seemed unbeatable ; the scores of the first few games gave sufficient proof of their superior playing. However, because of a misunderstanding of the Illionois State High School rules, three of the best players were declared ineligible. Despite this fact Mr. Pettvs built up a satisfactory team with Dutchy Long, Mac Guzino, and Wallace Caldwell. Scores for flic Year Bloom 46 Momence 3 Bloom 23 Hammond 8 Bloom 32 Momence 8 Bloom 12 Kankakee 19 Bloom 11 Blue Island 15 Bloom 14 Harvey 15 Bloom 28 Watseka 8 Bloom 16 Deerfield 15 Bloom 31 Blue Island lO Bloom 14 U. High 17 Bloom 26 Kankakee 16 Bloom 8 Deerfield 9 Bloom 13 U. High 8 Bloom 14 Harvey 15 Bloom 13 Watseka 11 Total Points — Bloom 301, Opponents 177. Ninety-five BASEBALL First Row : Fred Ruhe, Calvin Pierson, Dulcino Long, Leo Frigo, Verne Rust, Robert Grooms, Vivian Cox, Ario Long, Silvio Tibcri. Second Row : Harry Osterman, Dominic Guzino, James Zumallen, Aria LaMorticella, Coach Sarff. Bloom is now playing for the second year on its new baseball field, situated in the athletic field. The diamond at present is in perfect condition with a very smooth running infield. The outfield is covered with soft eveningly cut grass, and there is ample room for the fiy chasers to roam. The backstop is of a new kind composed of an extremely heavy wire, supported by a steel structure well bedded into a concrete foundation. On the south and west side of the dia- mond there are portable bleachers. At the call for baseball candidates, thirty-five ambitious, struggling youths sought Mr. Sarff for positions on the team. It was not long before the aggre- gation was cut to twenty members, and this number held throughout the season. The first game was with Lockport, where Bloom met defeat by a score of three to one. In the second game, Bloom defeated University High of Chicago, nine to six. At this game. Bloom ' s team showed considerable improvement in play- ing. The strong Waukegan beat Bloom in the next two following games hi a double bill, by scores of ten to four, and ten to five resjjectively. Thorton came to Bloom for the next game and went home utterly defeated by the score of five to zero. This game was witnessed by several hundred fans, because of the exciting rivalry between these two schools. The team, as it now is, is composed of several new men, there being but a few veterans from last year. Cox is playing third base, and is doing splendid work in the infield and also with the stick. D. Long is at short, the position he held last year, and is playing short stop in excellent fashion. Groom, play- Ninely-six ing second, is quite an accomplished player. As he is only a freshman, he should be a very good baseball player in his senior year. Vernie Rust is back at first, which he held for a number of years. Vernie is probably one of the best players Bloom ever turned out. The catching is taken care of by Pearson, a newcomer who has surprised the fans many times by going back after foul balls. Trigo, a south fan, took the pitching position and held it the year through, with Rust as his backer. The left field was open to Ario Long, who played that position last year. He had a keen sense of direction and was always under the high and fast fly balls. Tiberi held center field and with his experience in baseball, was quite an asset to the team. Ruhe took care of right field and because of his speed, few balls were missed in that direc- tion. WRESTLING Bloom has a wrestling team! This team journeyed to the University of Chicago for the Cook County Interscholastic wrestling meet, April 23 and 24, and in competition with the wrestling teams from Chi- cago ' s fines t high schools, came home with fourth place. The outstanding feature of the meet was the work of William Dyer in the 125 pound class. By winning three matches, two of them by falls, the other by a decided time advantage, he became Cook County Champion in his division. In the final match he defeated Kalinek of Tilden, City Champion and a splendidly developed and carefully trained wrestler. Entering the match as a dark horse, Dyer ' s strength and careful sense of balance permitted him to take and hold the offense throughout, pmning his opponent ' s shoulders to the mat with a half-nelson and bar-arm hold, after seven minutes of exciting grappling. Bloom ' s other wrestlers fared well. Handi- capped as they all were by lack of training and ex- perience, (wrestling at Bloom was born only last month when the mat was purchased), they made a splendid showing. Aided by fortunate draws (four of Bloom ' s wrestlers drew byes in the first round, permitting them to enter the second round without a match) every Bloom wrestler except Millar scored points. Poorman in the 175 pound division was third. Long, by winning a hard fought match from Urb of Englewood gathered a fourth, and Mike Stephanikis captured two points in the consolation matches, by a well-earned victory. Millar was forced to withdraw because of an injured arm. Ninety-seven s= rivC A ■1 J .i Vii ' : ' is. ' tir-- ' :.i :ik. ' V- TRACK 1926 On the first of May Mr. E. R. Nelson issued a call for all track prospects and aspirants to report in the gymnasium after school, for the first instalhnent of track instructions. About fifty boys turned out in outfits of every color and size. The greater portion of the boys were freshmen and sophomores who had little or no pre- vious track training or experience. In this aggregation only four letter men of the previous year were present. ' I ' his made prospects rather gloomy, never- the less, Mr. Nelson grasped the situation as it stood, and laid down the laws and fundamentals of track. The first night was spent in lecturing and then a slight workout as an intro- duction to what was to follow ended the program for that evening. The rest of the week Mr. Nelson sent his prodigies through the process of getting off with the gun, and of posing before the start. The first line up for starts presented a picture similar to a clothes line with a row of flapping clothes on it. Mr. Nelson worked hard, until, by the time the weather allowed them to report at the field, he had a presentable array of runners, jumpers and hurdlers. Every night the boys were given a workout which consisted of a mixture of running, trotting, .sprinting, prancing and even duck waddling for about tvi ' elve laps around the track, which amounts to the sum of thi-ee miles. The first meet with Riverside at Bloom the boys were in splendid condition. Bloom ' s track team humbled Riverside by a score of 743 to 52 .. The next meet was a quadrangular meet with Morton, Thornton, Riverside and Bloom. Morton won the meet by the distance runs and dashes. Bloom Ninety-eight did well in the hurdles on the field events, but failed to produce enough points to win. At the time this goes to press no other meets were held, but on May 29, a meet with Thornton is scheduled and should prove to be an interesting event. The track team this year has produced greater results than many previous years. This year Mr. Nelson had to model a team around the five returning letter men ; Captain Haut, Herr, Russell, Gary and Meidell. Haut and Herr performed in the 50, 100, and 220 yard dashes and hurdlers. Russell ran the mile and Meidell did the jumping and pole vaulting. The rest of the events had to be filled, and owing to Mr. Nelson ' s honest eiiforts, a favorable and creditable team was worked up. OUR FIRST TENNIS TEAM Last year ' s form of tennis was confined to awarding bronze tennis trophies to the champion tennis players in Bloom. This year the faculty and students have taken more interest in tennis, so that a tennis team has been formed under the skillful coaching of Mr. Browne, who formerly was a member of the Illinois State University tennis team. In order to pick the boys for the team, a tournament was held at which Wallace Caldwell, Donald Graham, George Knagge and Maurino Ricchuito were the principal candidates. Niiictv-niiic One hundred one v Aa Miss VbazEy Director Ethel Strandberg President Alberta Hammer Vice-President Anita Zanco Secretary Myrtle McAllister Treasurer During the second chapter of the G. A. A. a new system, of electing officers in the spring was adopted. Consequently, last fall when school reopened, the officers were all ready to go to work to make this third chapter the best yet. The biggest thing that was done this year was the adoption of a point system. This system not only promotes athletics, but also is an incentive to the girls to carry their studies, since they can not receive the awards, unless they do carry their work. Briefly this point system is, for certain athletics, points are given : for one hundred of these points a numeral is awarded ; for six hundred, a B. T. H. S. ; and for one thousand, a medal. But the G. A. A. is not only occupied entirely with athletics. Their first party was given in October, and later in Deceinber, their annual Christmas party occurred. Then after the basketball season, the girls on the teams were given a banquet, and presented with numerals which they had earned. So in closing, we wish the next year ' s G. A. A. as much luck as we had. One hundred two BASKET BALL In spite of the enthusiasm aroused by the novelty of Volley Ball, when the basket ball season came round, the old interest brought out many girls to try for the teams. When it came time for the real games of the tournament, there were five teams in the field. But first one, then two, then three teams dropped out, leaving the fight for championship between the Junior B ' s and the Seniors. It was probably the biggest crowd ever seen at the championship game. And there was cause to wonder who would win. The Juniors in their brown and buflf, and the Seniors in striking white with touches of black, were well matched. At the end of the first half things looked favorable for the Seniors, but at the end of the game, the Seniors left the Juniors with the championship. At the end of the tournament the standing of the teams was: First place Junior B ' s Fourth Place Freshmen Second ])Iace Seniors Fifth place Junior A ' s Third place Sophomore B ' s Sixth place Sophomore A ' s One hundred three i One hundred four TENNIS And now with racket and ball All haste to the sunny courts ; The server ' gins with a joyous call : Art ready? for I serve — Aye! serve! The ball is batted with many a cheer, Until the server shouts, Game here! When April, with her showers is past and the courts once more are dry, we turn our thoughts to tennis, that game which is played as enthusiasticallv today, as in the day of Louis XIV. And there is always a certain zest added, if there is competition. So a tournament is arranged for the last of May and the first of June. Every girl in school is allowed to enter and try for the championship. For this champion there is the reward of having her name engraved on the tennis trophy, as Viola Orr ' s successor, who last year won the first Girls ' Tennis Championship at Bloom. VOLLEY BALL When it was too late to play tennis and too early for basket ball, an old game was revived. The game — Volley ball — created great interest — more probably, to the under than to the upper classmen. First came quite a bit of practice. Then followed the tournament where the Sophomores showed themselves best. The Juniors and Freshmen B ' s tied for second place ; the Freshmen followed, leaving the Seniors to bring up the rear. Since the new game is established now, there will be even greater interest in it next year. One hundred six = bL THE ENCHANTED GARDEN Over the garden is spread an invisible air of enchantment : a group of dancers rise to express the Spirit of Spring which hovers there. The ' gar- deners ' , inspired by the glory of the season, enter to begin their work. There follows a dance by a group, angering the Sunset. At twilight the children come to frolic in the garden; after their departure the Stars twinkle and the Moonbeams dance. A gracious Fairy enters and speaks to the Flowers, bid- ding them awaken to dance with her. At this point, their ' Queen of May ' enters and is received with due homage by her subjects, who crown her. There enter five dancers whose mission is to spread the Joy of Youth. Brown-Eyed-Susan and Johnny- Jump-Up next join in a dance ; the Bees and Roses follow. Pierrot and Pierrette now steal in, bent on weaving their spell of fan- tasy ; in their wake follow the Butterflies. The Wild Rose and Blue Bird, hearing the joyful notes, from the distance, are lured to the Enchanted Gar- den. Now, the Old-Fashioned Flowers, dismayed at the frivolity which is pervading their abode, express their disapproval by a stately minuet. The Flowers now assemble about a May-Pole, weaving around it the gay-colored ribbons, thus adding beauty to their exquisite Garden. The Dance of the May-Pole heralds, the Dawn, interprets the Song of the Lark. The Sun-Beams, harbingers of the work-a-day world, follow, their appeai- ance serving as a warning to the Flowers who return to their places. At last Her Majesty, the Queen, departs from the Garden, followed by her royal attendants. One hundred seven J v One hundred eight C5_ One hundred eleven Back Row Standing : Jane Leonard, Eva Johnston, Gertrude Mulhallen, Genevieve Stemberger, Jean Raine, Lois Ehrhardt, Caroline Carson, Helen De Bolt, Alberta Hammer, Ellen Hixon, Margaret Brown. Middle Row Standing : Dorothy Boyer, La Vaughn Cooley, Dorothy Sharp, Louise Walker, Barbara Michalek, Frances Beggs, Dorothy Rippe, Gertrude Sauter, Mildred Hansen, Alta Holycross, Margaret Manson. Front Row Sitting : Kathleen Miller, Claire McCormack, Elizabeth Hood, Ferna Van Voorhis, Marcia Tessler, Helen Pahnke, Ella Mae Smith, Hazel Dooley, Naomi Clapham, Anita Zanco. GIRLS ' GLEE CLUB September 19, 1925, the date set for the first meeting of the Girls ' Glee Club, showed many vacant places had been left by graduates, to be filled by ambitious girls with promising voices. After numerous tr ' outs, the best voices were chosen, and then the real work for the Glee Club started. In order to secure the most capable officers, the girls suggested that Miss Bliss select the girls best fitted for the place. The officers selected were : Jean Raine President Frances Beggs Treasurer HazEi, Dooley Librarian Ella Mae Smith was chosen as accompanist. The new members were given pins similar to the ones worn by the former members. Every third period on Tuesday the girls worked hard ; and after a fe v practices, a decided change for the better was noted by Miss Bliss. The girls sang the following numbers: America, the Beautiful, Brahm ' s Lullaby, The Stars Are Brightly Shining for the Parent Teachers ' Associa- tion. I One hundred twelve Back Row Standing : Kenneth Settertilade, Wilbur Sadler, Wendell Klemm, Harry Patterson, Leonard Helfrick, Edwin Nelson, William Hildeman, Loyal Hedrick, Jerome Spafford, Wallace Meidell, Gerald Baker, Theodore Meyer. Front Row Sitting : John Wise, Vivian Cox, Paul Richey, Cornelius Lindhout, Carl Peterson, Ario LaMorticella, Charles Jaracz, Harold Meidell, Har ' .ey Hawes. BOYS ' GLEE CLUB Miss Flora M. Buss Director Kenneth Setterblade Accompanist Jerome Spafeord President Loyal Hedrick Treasurer A very successful season is to be credited to the Boys ' Glee Club this year ; this was due to the hearty cooperation of the fellows with their director, Miss Bliss. During the two months of vacation for some, and hard work for others, the voices of the boys were not much used in choral work, so that most of the fellows had to get acquainted with their voices all over qgain. This was no easy task; and in order that they might be able to carry a tone properly and follow their different parts, a great deal of drilling was necessarv. One hundred thirteen bL C £: BOYS ' GLEE CLUB (Continued) At first they were given simple music to practice ; one new selection and two others, they had already sung the previous year. With surprising speed these numbers were thoroughly worked out and were ready to place befoi e the public. The first public appearance of the Glee Club was at the Thornton High School, where the boys offered three selections as part of the entertainment. Since the audience was composed of none but teachers, the boys wondered just how this part of the program would be acce])ted. It was received with hearty applause which proved that the lioys. with their director, had done their part. The boys next sang for the first meeting of the Parent Teachers ' Asso- ciation at the High School one evening. They had the new Baldwin Grand Piano to help them carry their tones ; and aside from their good tone quality, the boys made good appearance in their dark suits and bow ties. Thanksgiving time soon came, and with it came a request for the boys to sing on the program. They sang before the student body, who applauded them warmly. The one song Indian Campfires was quite a])ropos and was enjoyed immensely. Everyone knows a pep meeting without music is less than nothing, so the boys sang at several pep meetings ; songs which were familiar to all the students and songs which were composed on the spur of the moment by certain members of both the Boys ' and Girls ' Glee Club. Something new is always welcome, so the pep meetings, as far as the Glee Club was concerned were very successful. Besides two more appearances before the assembly, the Glee Club made its annual tour through the city. The boys visited a number o f their homes and sang songs. They were given a cordial welcome wherever they went, and they found a great deal in the way oi amusement that evening. After their final appearance, the fellows all regretted that they could not spend those forty happy minutes in the music room each Wednesday. OPERETTA The director. Miss Flora Bliss, suggested giving an operetta. This met with the immediate and wholehearted approval of the girls. The play chosen, rapid progress was made in the memorizing of chorus parts, etc. Genevieve Stemberger, Edith Warner, and Ea Vaughn Cooley were cho.sen for the principal girls ' parts, because of the quality of their voices for the parts. Genevieve Stemberger, soprano, took the part of an old maid. Edith Warner, soprano, portrayed the part of a widow, and La Vaughn Cooley, .soprano, took the part of Sally Squeezum, the sweetheart of Toby JDunn. The combined Glee Clubs presented the operetta, Rings in the Sawdust, on Tues- day, April 16, 1926, at the Lincoln-Dixie theatre with great credit. Nothing need be said here concerning this remarkable musical comedy as it has a place in this golden book, all its own. One hundred fourteen %=: 3 - O Plh rt o Jii ; ; u 1 4J rt N pq ; -. Ul OJ p s O h4 m s w c M ° a N •£ -t; C u C C O c o SW u rt rt t- nj u or j: O be S a; 2 nJ ij § 1 5 in . u o W J3 t i U S K C •a W 2 So Sbi i;;c o •-frt Z w t; ■■ B -2 S 00 n 2; W Sj= H W gffi K o s W.Si in Sf ;: h4 o £ = L THE ORCHESTRA As a result of the untiring efforts of Miss Bliss, the director, the orchestra members have proved themselves capable of playing some difficult music ; this not only has given them a reputation in their high school work, but has raised them to a recognized standard in public. These experiences will help them to appreciate, more fully, the musical world after they have been graduated from Bloom, and will aid them to further their work elsewhere. At present, the orchestra is one of the best drilled and one of the most fully developed organizations in the school, but it must be remembered that there is always a beginning. At the first practice this year, everyone was not only energetic, but eager to get started. Though the instruments were tuned by each one with what was thought to be the greatest care, the first chord, struck by the entire ensemble sounded like a new jazz version of a classical number being played entirely in discord. The words of Miss Bliss, I can hear sixteen different A ' s, when only fourteen violinists were present, proved that the melody had been badly shattered by the orchestra or that Miss Bliss ' hearing was extraordinarily keen. But this musical chaos was due partly to the new selections which were yet to be worked with, and partly because most of the members had been out of practice during their two months ' vacation. . At the end of the first month all the participants could at least tune their instruments. The next thing to do was to play in time, and this was finally accomplished, so that the selections which seemed so difficult at first were finally mastered and played with ease. The orchestra made its debut the Friday preceding the Thornton football game last fall and was highly complimented. This gave each member more encouragement, and the feeling that those long tedious hours spent in hard practice every Monday evening were not a waste of time. A lapse of time of about four months passed before the second appearance was made. Of course, hard practice was indulged in during this time which showed itself in the end. This appearance was at the Three One Act Plays given by the Dramatic Club. The high school students were again given a treat in the assembly by a short musical program given by the orchestra. Several well known numbers were plaved, making the students acquainted with good music. It could easily be seen that classical music is as much appreciated, if not more so, by the student body than jazz. There has to be an end to all good things as well as a beginning and when the last appearance was made all the members knew that their good times at practice were to end. This appearance was at the Senior Class Play. However, all the members enjoyed every minute of their playing that evening and even though this ended the season of 1926, they all hoped for better success and more rapid achievement in the year to follow. One hundred seventeen r - g= Cornet Ralph Adams George Batcson Henry Buttell Warren Diefen1)ach Alberta Hammer Ellen Hixon William Hansen Louis Klitzner Harold Littell William Martin Theodore Meyer Harry Osterman Edward Kollert Edward Shechan Oscar Toll James Zum Mallen SENIOR BAND Drum Major, Wal ' ace Meidell Saxai ' hone John Hub George Iwanowski Harry Ste ' .tcr Baritone Marshall Cohen Edward I ' ierson George Shapiro Clarinet Walter Cohrs Lester Finkel Robert Millar Joe McGranc Paul Richey Trombone Chauncey Johnson August Koehler Allen Irwin Genevieve Stemberger Dan Seifer Base Vernon Meidell Harold Meidell Drums John Dooley Arthur Finkel George Philip Cornelius Lindhout 1 First Row: J. T. Talmadge (Inslnictor) John Lithway, John Kiitzncr, Edward Picrson, farjorie Cohea, Florene Pensinger, ' crnon Meidell, (Student Director), G.adys Hansen, Lydia Miles, Harold St. Pierre, Lester McLaughHn, Allen Irwin. Second Row : Tony Rufo, Raymond Morrow, Haro ' d Littell, George Bornian, Herschell Anderson, Kdward Shanks, John Costaliilc, Raymond Langbehn, Edna Jaeger, Eva Steinert, Mildred Jaeger, Dorothy Helfrick, Robert Johnston, Fred Baker. THE JUNIOR BAND The Junior Band made it.s appearance at Bloom, October of this year. Heretofore the constant entrance of beginners into the Senior Band had prevented the systematic progress of that band. After a conference between Mr. Boyer, Mr. Cragun, and Mr. TaUmadge. it was arranged that the school should buy or rent forty instruments, and that Mr. Tallmadge should furnish instruction after school and during his vacant periods, and should conduct the l)eginners in a Junior Band. This musical training costs the students nothing except the price of an instruction book, and a solo or two. A two dollar deposit is required, but this is refunded to those who make satisfactory progress. This little band has learned a great deal about music, and has worked on such numbers as Mighty La ' k a Rose; The World is Waiting for the Sunrise, Aloha Oe. and Songs from the Old Folks. Several times, after the band had learned to play quite well. Mrs. Tallmadge played accompaniments on the piano. When the Juniors head them- selves then, they are surprised to find how much like music their efforts seemed, and were encouraged to find themselves becoming musicians. Vernon Meidell has been taught to direct the l)and and thus assist Mr. Tallmadge. Both Mr. Cragun and Mr. Tallmadge are pleased with the progress the Junior band has made. Mr. Cragun made a special trip to Listen in the evening of March 29th and he said he hoped that all the members would join the senior band the follow ing week. Many of the Juniors now keep up work in both organizations. One hundred nineteen i3£?= bL( One hundred twenty One hundred twenty-one r ? £• 1 % B BB ' a sil H H -.% . ,V 1 - t ' ■ JaF ' - « P ■ The Masquers have indeed enjoyed their year of work and play together under the direction of Miss Gray ; and those members who cannot be of this company, next year, will look back with pleasure on the time that was spent so happily. OFFICERS August Koehler President Elin Wisman Vice-President Adeline Saller Secretary Robert Johnston Treasurer Miss MiedrEd Gray Dramatic Director One hundred twenty-two ; S= bL ACTIVITIES OF THE BLOOM MASQUE A stranger entering the clul), unexpectedly at a meeting, would be aston- ished to see twenty-five young people donning make-up as if they were about to appear on the stage, but it is just another educational feature of the club. Miss Gray, the adviser, greatly desires that the members know the art of make- up, consequently the rainbow effect. Then too, this same stranger upon hearing the roll called would look around incjuiringly for Jane Cowl, Sarah Bernhardt, William Hodge and others, since these are the names to which the members answer when at a meeting. The members assume these ficticious names upon entering the club, and each one, sometimes during the meetings, gives a biography of his charactr. At every meeting some one member of the club presents a play, the cast of which he himself chooses. He also directs the cast and obtains suitable props for the play. At the conclusion of each play, comments and criticisms are made by the other members, thereby enabling all to profit by the mistakes, or the good points of the performer ' s work. Another interesting feature is the Scrap Book in which are kept all notes, newspaper clippings of dramatic interest, announcements, and com- ments on the different famous actors and actresses represented in the club. The Scrap Book has grown exceedingly since last year, for each member has contributed something toward it. And — to top the evening off — so to speak, — the club sometimes enjoys cake and ice cream, when business for the evening is over. Do you wonder that the Bloom Masque is a much sought after organi- zation ? One hundred in ' cnly-lhrcc r DECEMBER THREE ONE ACT PLAYS tr Very soon after the new members were chosen and the club was settled, practice began for the three one-act plays, which were presented December 21. The first play was a comedy, Where But in America? The theme was based on the servant and the real estate problem. THE CAST Mrs. Espenhayne Maureen Tighe Mr. Espenhayne Hareey Hawes Hilda Marion Adair The Open Road, a short comedy, was the second play presented. The story centers about a small boy, who left home because he was forced to do undesirable chores. He spent a night with a bum, but was returned to his home the following day by the county sheriff. THE CAST The Boy Americo Buratto The Girl Mary Moore The Bum Theodore Meyers The County Sheriff Edwin Neescn The last play was in keeping with the Christmas spirit — The Christm ' ' .s Child Comes In. THE CAST Prologue Claire McCormick Jenny Rule Ferna Van Voorhis Ebenezer Rule Warren Diefenbach Mrs. Rule Dorothy Cohea Simeon Buck Edwin Nelson Abel Ames Robert Aykens John Aifer Jerome Spafford Mrs. Bates Jean Raine Mrs. Winslow Elin Wisman Mrs. Moran Bernice Helme Mr. Moran Robert Johnston Emily Moran Lucy Collins Buff Miles August Koehler Mrs. Buck Adeline Saller Ellen Buck Gladys Senn Mary Chavah Christine de Luca Carolers Girls ' GlEE Club Children One hundred twenty-four ntd APRIL THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS This year the Bloom Masque presented a second group of three one-act plays April 25 and 26. The first play was The Pot-Boilers, a delightful farce in which the author and director, Thomas Pinikles Sud, instructs a novice on some of the difficulties of directing a play, by illustrating these in a play which he is about to present. THE CAST Thomas Pinikles Sud (the author). -August Koeiiler Harold Waldby (the novice) Robert Johnston Mr. Ivory (the father) Robert Johnston Mr. Ruler (the hero) Wallace Meidell Miss Ivory (the heroine)..... Gladys Senn Mr. Inkwell (the villain) Harley Hawes Mrs. Pencil (the vampire) GeniEvE STEMBERGEit Fantasy and philosophy appear together in Poor Maddalina. Pierrot and Pierrette, not satisfied with their gay life in the land of fantasy, go down to the great real world ; but soon they return to their playground, and quite agree with Bumbu that all is not gold that shines in the world below them. They are quite contest thereafter with declaring their love to one another m their own happy, carefree world. THE CAST Pierrot Maurino Ricchuito Pierrette Elin Wisman Bumbu ' . Edwin Nelsom The story of The Rector is that of a young minister who captures the hearts of several spinsters when he comes to the new parish. Each does her best to win the handsome rector, but he surprises them when he chooses for his wife a slip of a girl, to whom they had paid no attention. THE CAST John Herresford Warren Diefenbach Margaret Norton Adeline Saller Victoria Knox ClairE McCormick Mrs. Lemmingworth Marion Adair Mrs. Munsey Bernice Helme Miss Trimball Dorothy Cohea Janie Dorothy Boyer BLOOM STAFF Back Row: Allen Irwin (Departmental), Wallace Meidcli (Faculty), Edwin Nelson (Alumni). August Kcehler (Calendar), Boyd White (Art). MinuLK Row: Harley Hawes (Junior Assistant), Marcia Tesslcr (G ' ee Cluli), Marion Adair (Snapshot), Kenneth Scttcr ' hlade (Music), Adeline Sailer (Facu ty), Robert Aykens (Senior), Mildred La None (Departmental), Dorothy Boyer (Senior), Jeane Raine (Jun- ior Assistant). Front Row: Robert Johnston (Humor), Marie Hoffman (--Xthlctics), Evert Soderberg (Assistant Business Manager), Claire McCormack (Literary), Edwin I ' oorman (Business Manager), .Adeline Trotier (Editor-in-chief,), Jerome SpafTord (Circulating Manager), Mary Moore (Dramatics). ASSISTANTS F. cui,TY— Wal ' .acc Meidell , Frances Beggs. Sen ' IOR Section — Fcrna VanVoorhis, Elizabeth Hood, Helen Fahnkc, Violet Eskilson, Bernice Miley, Waldemar Wilkcning, Wendell Klemm. Dramatics — E in Wisman, Bernice Holme. Humor — James Worthy, Bernice Miley, Warren Diefenbach. Art — Harley Hawes, William Ritter, Warren Diefenbach, .Alice Mary McElroy. Snaps— Margaret Moore, Ellen Hixon, .Anita Zanco, Marjorie Cohea, Joseph McGrane, Harold Meidell, Myrtle McAllister, Dorothy Boyer, Florcne Pensinger, Frances Beggs, Lydia Miles. One hundred twenty-nine M — O - v. THE BLOOM Editors may come, and editors may go; but the Bloom goes on forever. Each year the annual is edited according to a custom that is almost as long-standing as the school itself. Each year the Bloom grows, enlarges, develops, and becomes better than the year before. The editing of the Bloom requires long, patient, and whole-hearted work, and the cooperation of all members of the Staff. One is reminded of the mechanism of a great machine which, as power or force is applied, runs smoothly and with perfect cooperation in all its parts. When one part fails, the entire mechanism is thrown out of order, and only chaos prevails until that part has been properly taken care of. So it is with the Bloom. The Editor, Business Manager, and Faculty Adviser are the central factors around which the machinery of the Bloom work cooperates. Now that this work is completed, all these cooporative forces should feel that their efforts have been appreciated. We are very grateful to the Board of Education for the financial support given the Bloom. W e sincerely appreciate the cheerful advice, enthusiasm, work, and encouragement of our Faculty Adviser, Miss Way. We are very thankful to the typists who spent so many long hours at the typewriters, for the benefit of the book. The cooperation of the Staff members was admirable. The Camera Club, organized solely for the Bloom pictures, turned in many fine snapshots. Also, we are more than grateful for the willing help given by Miss Soderman ; the advice and interest of the faculty aided and inspired us. Under the direction of Miss Ash, the Art Staff, which has had nearly twice as much art work to do this year, is worthy of a great deal of credit for the sketches and the division pages ; and Warren Diefenbach especially for patient hours of work on the beautiful colored inserts. The Class Sections were placed under the charge of respective teachers : Juniors, Miss Mellinger; Sophomores, Miss Stewart; Freshman, Miss Turner and Miss .Hessler ; they have worked to make their sections better and have succeeded splendidly. We are very grateful to Miss Wallace for the fine literary work that she submitted. Also to Miss Ethel Mellinger and her sister, Louise, who so faithfully helped to proof the Book. To Mr. George I. McEldowney the Bloom is indebted for many early historical pictures and facts. Confidentially, these words were not written by the editor as she sat in her easy chair, (for this editor ' s chair was far from soft and easy), and viewed with interest the rapid development of the Bloom ; but, on the contrary, it was written in the very midst of work, and with a keener appreciation of the value and meaning of her position. Now all the hard work is finished ; the only thing that remains is the deep gratitude of the editor, and the knowledge that a great thing has been accomplished. The Editor One hundred thirty Back Row : Boyd White, Adeline Trotier, Newton Thornberg, Robert Aykens, Thor Carlson, E;dwin Nelson, Jean Kaine, Loyal Hedrick, Genevieve Stemberger, Kenneth Sawyer, Har!ey Hawes. Fronr Row : Anita Zanco, Mildred LaNoue, Americo Buratto, Claire McCormick, Ass ' t. Editor, Allen Irwin, Business Manager, Helen Pahnke, Editor-in-Chief, Francelia Wilken- ing, Wallace Meidell, Dorothy Pierson. The Broadcaster blossomed out from a small four columner of June, 1925, to a larger five column newspaper in September, 1925. It has now a resemblance to a standard newspaper because of its increased size, larger heads, and a greater space for material. During the semester of ' 25, The Broadcaster experienced a sharp struggle for existence. Only five numbers of the previous year ' s Journalism class returned to school, so that the majority of the articles had to be written by students who had had no previous experience in journalistic writing. But the paper survived, and grew stronger with each issue, through the hard work of the staff and the co-operation of the Journalism class of the fall semester. The second semester showed a marked improvement in The Broadcaster . A new reportorial staff was chosen from the Journalism class. The articles had more of newspaper style ; also a greater field of news was covered. The Student Council put out a special edition in April. This issue showed the advance made, and the function of the Student Council. In May, came the welcome news that The Broadcaster was one of the eighteen new.spapers which received third place in Bloom ' s class in the Central Interscholastic Press Association. This contest includes schools of five different groups according to enrollment, Bloom being in the group of 700 to 1,299 stu- dents. Schools from all over the United States figure in this contest. The Broadcaster ' s award, one of the three given Illinois schools in Bloom ' s class, shows the progress this newspaper has made. The Broadcaster is still in its infancy, as it is just beginning its third, vear. One hundred thirty-one 1 One hundred thirty-three I Music Room — North Hall — Jaracz tuning up. Ella May Smith, accompaniest. at the piano. Domestic Science cooks pre- paring menu for the cafeteria. Neatness and convenience both are evident here. Sewing Room — Here style is developed. Prop- er planning and draping insures a good garment. One hundred thirty-five == r if 4. A MS Pi W iii f i r ' ■ . r nr- , m l.i 1 i E - % P. ..««■«. V--1 ' B- ■r m s f— E M ■ •mm ' 1 ' ■H ■ - ' J : ' :-M r ■ Bernice Helme, Ellen Hixon, Florene Pensinger, Mildred LaNouc, Adaline Sailer, Ferna Van Vooorhis, Marion Adair, Dorothy Boyer. Margaret Moore, LIBRARY CLUB Prologue Once in the days, within the memory of Mr. Boyer, began the Bloom Library. Read now the high lights in its growth ; the lesser lights you have read in the former Blooms and Broadcasters. Episode I — Wigwam Stage Scene — North Assembly Behold a long table, book laden, in the choice corner of the chief ' s main lodge. Here young braves and maidens find refuge from the eagle eye of the medicine man — the wise man of the tribe. Episode II — Pioneer Stage Scene — Hall and Mr. Bayer ' s Office Frontiers enlarge ! Eastward to the hall and northward to the office is the library ' s pioneer movement. In minds of far vision, plans for a library are forming. Episode III — Civic Growth Scene — English Room 17 — Present Location The City of Bloom is incorporated and for its citizens is set apart a Kingdom of books. So rapidly does this, our city, grow that a large addi- tion is soon necessary, fully equipped for comradeship with books. Episode IV — Present Achievement Scene — The Same A popular place is this, our library. Witness the shelves crowded with two thousand students served. Epilogue And some day a great poet shall rise from our midst and shall sing: O, happy hours we spent in thee, A lovely spot, ' Our library, ' And go away with backward looks At our dear land of many books. One hundred thirty-eight Back Row Standing : Warren Diefen ' bach, Leonard Helf rick, Robert Johnston, Frances Beggs, Margaret McKay, Bernice Hclme, Ethel Strandberg, Wende 1 Klemm, Jerome Spafford. Fourth Row Standing : Americo Burrato, Newton Thornburg, Genevieve Stenibergcr. Eileen Patterson, Helen Burgess. Third Row Standing: Roland Panzar, James Worthy, Charles Jaracz, Marie Fink, Elizabeth Smith, Ferol Cole, Ingrid Johnson, Naomi McKee, Marshall Cohen, Harold Gettelman. Second Row Standing: Ra ' ph Zumbahlen, Ralph Parker, Ralph Jones, Eloise Bucholtz, Hazel Hoel, Jessie McCormick, Edna Veale, Tony Ruffo. Front Row Sitting: Allen Irwin (Commissioner of Publicity), August Koeh ' er (Com- missioner of Public Improvements), Edwin Nelson (Judge), Adeline Sailer (Clerk), William Ritter (Mayor), William Dyer (Treasurer), Jean Raine (Chief of Police), Robert Aykens (Fire Marshal), Hazel Dooley (Lost and Found Department), Evert Soder- berg (Commissioner of Public Safety). CITY OF BLOOM Bloom is one of the few schools that has a successful student govern- ment. After three years of Student Participation in Self-administration, Bloom is willing to recommend the system to any school that is contemplat- ing such an experiment. The system was started in Bloom in 1923, after a through study of practically the same system then in operation, at Lindblom High School, Chicago. In school activities the student government functions very well. The pep meetings for athletics are entirely under the supervision of the City of Bloom, as are also the social hours, the girls ' and boys ' tournaments, the Lost and Found Department, the Second Hand Book Department, fire drills, and the hall guard system. This year, the council members edited a special edition of the Broadcaster which attracted much attention. () (( ' hundred thirlv-nine 1j t , •• ' ' y ft ' 4% i B Si 1 fe. L 4 J Jy i : II If .... m ■ ' . . ft Back Row Standing: Kol ert Wilkcning, Rol.ert Smith, George Philip. Fourth Row Standing: Cornehus Lindhout, Theodore Meyers, Harold Gett eman. Wayne Storch, Alfred Herr, Pan: Richey, Maurino Ricchuito, Warren Diefenhach. Third Row Standing: Margaret Moore, Jane Leonard, Hazel Dooley, Adeline Sailer, Gertrude Mulhollen, Alice Leissing, Eliza ' iieth Hood, Ario La Morticella, Claire McCormack. Second Row Standing: Maureen Tighc, Feme Bahlman, Frances Beggs, William Mar- tin, August Kochler, Adeline Trotier, Helen De Bolt, Florene Pensinger, Anna Mary Keltz, Front Row SiTTi: ' c. : Barbara Micha ek. Marjorie Chamliers, Bernice Champene, Fran- celia Wilkcning, Jean Raine, (Chief of Police), Maricm Baker, Ferol Cole, Genevieve Stemherger, Ella Mae Smith, Marcia Tessler. HALL GUARDS Halt! who goes there? Present your pass. The wayfarer of the halls presents his pass, receives the guard ' s O. K., and goes luerrily on his way. And so the Hall Guard Systein , which was reinstated l)y the Council of the City of Bloom the third week in September, worked with efficiency throughout the year, after forty guards and eight sulistitutes were installed. The Council voted to reward the guards for faithful services by allowing them to retain their pins. At the close of the first semester, one hundred and fifty blue guard checks had been issued to pupils who had been in the halls without passes. About one-third of these were really necessary. The second semester found a great decrease in guard checks issued. Thus the guard system goes on from Septeiuber to June, adding its little bit to the Student Administration of Blooiu. One litiiidrcd forty l.)nc hundred jurly-une THE CHANGES IN CHICAGO HEIGHTS SINCE 1893 One evening my l)est friend and I were talking about the old times. In the course of our conv ' ersation, she remarked that she had lived here a long time. I asked her to tell me what the place was like when she came. I ' ll quote verbatim what she said. I came to the Heights in June, 1893. with the first factory that came to the Heights. The factory was Walburn and Swanson ' s foundry. Do you know it took us an hour to get tickets to the Heights from Joliet? They only knew the place as Bloom then, and they sent all over Joliet to find out where it was. Well, there was but one church, the old Presbyterian, one factory, two general stores and between forty and forty-five houses. The post office was just a little kitchen table in the corner of Aswald ' s general store. The Wash- ington school had but four rooms, and we had to go in a round-about way to get there. The land just back of the school was forest, and farther back, farm lands stretched away. The site of Schultze ' s Drug Store and Illinois Street between Vincennes aiid Oak Street was covered with woods too. Along the north side of Illinois Street was a board walk that .stood six feet high in some places. If it rained very hard, the water came up over them and made it very difficult and dargerous to get over. (Goodness! I ' m glad I didn ' t live there then.) By the summer of ' 93, the Victoria Hotel was finished. As yet, there were no doctors, and so people had to go to Harvey to get one. The tele- phone office was not built ' till about ' 96. Speaking of stores, Aschers is the oldest dr} ' goods store here, and Beralzhimer had the first real merchandise store. From then on, the change was so gradual that it was not very noticeable. You see I can ' t remember the order in which the factories were built, but there were two or three built each year. I was astonished. Do you not think I had reasons to be? Of course, I know Rfime was not built in a day ; but does it seem possible to you, reader, that a village scarcely known in ' 93 should have become one of the largest manufacturing towns of its size in the world? Just think of starting with a population of about two hundred and seventy in 93 and growing in thirty- three years, to twenty-one thousand. THE BLUE BIRD Cal Benson, a slim, tall boy of sixteen, sat on his work bench, medita- tively kicking the side of a nearby box. For the fifth time he read a note that he had received through the mail that day : Benson, If you enter the Blue Bird in the race tomorrow, you and your boat shall suffer. If you wish to save your boat, do not enter the races. D. D. In spite of his scant hundred and twenty pounds, Cal was a boy who was steadfast in his purpose, and he was not daunted by what he thought such an empty threat. He folded the paper and put it into his pocket, and turned to the Blue Bird. The Blue Bird was built by Cal, on plans of his own. She was long and narrow ; her bows and engine stood a foot and a half above her stern, and she was so light that when floating she displaced very little water. Her power plant was a light four-cylinder motor, geared to the ratio of 1 to ? with the screw propeller. Her rudder was controlled with ropes connected to a steering wheel. She was painted blue, except on each side of her engine cover, where the white lettered words Blue Bird ' ' stood out conspicuously. The task that Cal now turned to was the installing of two compressed air tanks. Cal finished his work, locked the boat house door, whistled to his dog, and trudged up the Main Street of Fair Vew, a prosperous little farming town on the banks of the Mississinewa River. It boasted of one general store, a blacksmith ' s shop, and several cottages. On his way home, Cal met the village Constable, Mr. Owens. Good evening, Cal, how is the Blue Bird coming? Everybody is backing her in the race tomorrow, greeted the officer. Hello, Mr. Owens. The Blue Bird is in fine condition. replied Cal, But there is something for you to think about. Cal shoved the letter into the hand of the constable, and disappeared down the street. Cal ' s mother, a little sad-faced woman wearied by years of toil, met him at the door. Placing a kiss upon her cheek, he led her to the supper table. Please, Cal, don ' t enter the race tomorrow, begged his mother as soon as they were seated. Why? queried Cal, There is no danger, but as he spoke the memory of that note flashed across his mind. Last night I dreamed of your father. continued Mrs. Benson. He was wet and bloody as he was the night they brought him into the house after they had found him in the wreck of his boat. I feel as if it is a warn- ing that you should not enter the race. Cal did not reply, and they finished their meal in silence. Mother, I have to win tomorrow, so that we can make the last payment on our home. Besides I ' m just aching to open the Blue Bird up: I ' m going down to look the l)oat over once more before the race, Cal said, as he stalked out into the moonlight. Shep. his collie dog, bounded to his side, and with a frisk of his bushy tail sauntered on ahead. One hundred forty-three 9 THE BLUE BIRD (Contiimeil) Constal)le Owens met Cal at the store ; together they went down to the boat house. When alsoiit a square away, Shep raced and attacked a man who was working over the lock of the door. With a deft blow the man struck to earth the charging collie. Seeing the man and boy api)roaching, he jumped into a big gray touring car and disappeared from sight around a curve in the road. Sonny, leave this fellow to me, ' ' said the officer as they examined he building o see if any damage had been done. Leaving Shep on guard curled up in the stern of the boat. Owens and Cal left. It was Owens ' duty to see that nothing hap]5ened to the boats that were to enter the race on the morrow. Some of the boats were in the public boat house ; others were slowly making their way to shore, while far down stream could be heard the roar of a powerful speed boat. Sounds like the Silver Moon. thought Cal. He was right ; the moon beams glittered back from her silvery sides as she rounded a curve in the river below. She was the winner of last year ' s race, and she looked as though she had a good chance of winning this year too. She came tearing up the river with white spray dashing from her silvery bows. Ned Henderson, owner of the Silver Moon and an old rival of Cal ' s, was at her wheel. The day had come at last: the day that all the peo]:)le for miles around had been waiting for and discussing for weeks. The day of County Speed Boat Derby had come, and the peo])le from all the surrounding counties were gathered on the banks to see the race. It was five minutes before the start ; all the entries were drawn up in a long line across the river, but the Blue Bird had not taken her place. A motor was heard from the boat house of the Blue Bird ; antl as every- body turned, the already famous boat shot out across the water, turned down the stream, and came gliding toward the shore. Cal sat behind the wheel, while Shep stood at his post on the fore-deck. As Cal stepped on the shore to give the judges his name. Constable Owens whispered in his ear, Found a clue. Need Shep with me, and then disappeared in the crowd with Shep at his side. Cal took his place beside the Silve r Moon. The boys nodded as their eyes met, but they did not speak. Cal bent forward to listen to the water. It was purrjng as contentedly as his pet kitten, and was singing a song in his ears. As he listened, he was thinking. What clue did Owens find? He glanced ahead as the starting gun cracked. He threw the clutch in and gave the motor the gun. The Blue Bird darted forward ; but quick as she was, the Silver Moon was a trifle quicker. The Silver Moon ' ' was noted for her quick ' get-a-way, ' winning many of her races at the start. But today all the honors at the start were not hers ; for as she had shot forward, a blue shadow dashed at her left side. She always had had an open river by herself ; but now as she sped down the first stretches of that five mile course, a blue shadow sped at her side. What was Owen ' s clue? As he had guarded the boats the night before the race, he had overheard two men talking. One was saying, Look here, Daring, you have got to stop the Blue Bird. We have staked all our money on the Silver Moon, and she is sure to be beaten if Benson enters. You One hundred forlyfour iSii THE BLUE BIRD (Continued) go to that high bluff above the four mile line, and if the Blue Bird has any chance of winning, pump a few shots into her side. So that is their scheme, thought the constable. Ned was worried. He dared not let the Silver Moon keep a steady pace, for whenever he tried, a blue bow slowly but surely forced its way up beside the Silver Moon. If Cal forced him to open the Silver Moon in the first stages of the race, could she keep the pace for the whole five miles? As they passed the one mile float, Ned stole a glance back at Cal. He was studying the dials on his desk board. Ned glanced at his own ; they showed that the Silver Moon was running in perfect style. At the two mile float, Ned noticed that the blue bow was steadily creeping ahead. In desperaion he threw the throttle open ; the boat sprang forward like an unchained hunt- ing hound. Then, and only for a moment, did that blue bow disappear from his vision. It was there again when he glanced to his left, slowly forcing its way ahead. The Blue Bird was performing a feat never accomplished before. She was keeping the pace set by the swift silver boat, and was pass- ing her, too. The next mile saw the Blue Bird slowly forging ahead, until she was a boat ' s length ahead at the four mile line. The two young pilots did not notice the spray dash from the bows over them, as they sped past deep waters and treacherous bar; past sunny meadows and shady wood. One sat leaning forward, listening and watch- ing; the other sat with his eyes upon the one ahead. Like two shadows they sped down the wide river. The last mile was as straight as an arrow. A blue and silver streak was all that could be seen as they tore down that last lap, the lap that tests the metal of motors and the souls of men. As they passed a high bluff, Ned looked up; he saw a man with leveled rifle. He saw a flash, twice ; he saw a man and a dog jump upon them as they disappeared behind him. He glanced ahead ; the Blue Bird was listi ng dangerously to the left, and Cal slumped forward over the wheel. The ' ' Blue Bird did not slack her terrible pace, but sped down upon the goal tape. Ned knew that he must act, and act at once. Cal was shot, and maybe killed, for blood appeared upon his blue sweater. But what could he do? The Silver Moon was doing her best, and still she could not catch that blue shadow. Ned noticed that the Blue Bird was gradually sinking; when she crossed the line, the winner, a few inches ahead of the fleet Silver Moon ; water poured over the gun holes, and she sank with engines running. As the Blue Bird sank, Ned suddenly became active. He swung the Silver Moon across the sinking craft, at the same time reached over and pulled the unconscious pilot aboard. He shut the motor off, and the Silver Moon glided to shore. Ned stepped from the boat with his new friend in his arms, and laid him gently on the shore. Cal ' s eyes opened for a moment, as his mother and a doctor examined his wounds, and he spoke these faint words, I ' m all right, Mother, but I want to sleep. Heavy lids closed over his eyes, and he fell asleep again. One hundred forty-five AN OCEAN FANTASY Deep beneath the crystal sea Where the mermaids sport in glee Whom you ' ve often heard about in fairy lore, Where the water swirls around With a swishy, gurgly sound And the sea-moss forms a carpet on the filoor, Where the water ' s green as green And huge monsters may be seen That frighten little fished far and near; Where the octopus squirms past And the sea-moss forms a carpet on the floor, And the sea-moss forms a carpet on the floor, There the jdly-fishes thrive There they jump and there they dive. Oh, they live a life too thrilling to explain. For they are extremely lively And they sport around quite blithely And they don ' t know zvhat it means to feel a pain; They are just like little boys ),;;, With their love for fun and noise. And the ocean fairly rings voith shouts of glee ; They play the wildest games Call each other funny names And there ' s not a thing goes on that they don ' t .fi When they ' re feeling super-gay And are tired of their play Bach jumps upon a sea-horse going past; Oite If.tndrcd forty-si.v %= r ( bI THE COMING OF SPRING A Fantasy Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess, who lived in a tower- ing, snowy-white cloud castle. She was a fairy princess, and therefore of the immortals ; hut because of her famous l)eauty. and gentle yet mischievous ways, she was worshi])ped by mortals all over the world. Her real name was the Spirit of Spring. and she reminded one of the sunshiny A])ril day, with her big blue eyes, her flying golden curls , and her tantalizing dimples, that sprang into being when she smiled. To win the approval shown by that smile, men were known to do many foolish things. Indeed volumes of poetry were written annually in her favor. One day, toward the end of the reign of King Winter, her little heralds, the soft, southern Ijreezes, came to make known that the princess was to visit the Kingdom of Chicago Heights. This caused a great stir among the young men of the Kingdom, and they began to vie with one another to do her honor. Now it was known, that although the princess was fond of mortal men, she greatly preferred poor young men, and refused even to look upon the rich or titled. There were, in the Kingdom of Chicago Heights, a band of the most handsome and attractive young ])rinces. who upon hearing of the coming of the princess, became sad and downcast, for they knew she would not care for them. Finally, one of them thought of a plan to win the regard of the princess, and they all set to work. Accordingly, on the appointed day, the princes- set out to meet the ])rincess. Following their plans, they had disguised themselves as beggars and workingmen, and ])rince Joe ha l even dressed in imitation of a girl, with long ear-rings in his ears. Prince Bud was compelled to wear an old- silk hat, as he could not find a workman ' s hat. Prince Wallace, Prince Bion, Prince Ario, and Prince Loyal, and the rest also hid their l eauty beneath a varied collection of rags and patches. The young princes, handsome in spite of their disguise, were approach- ing an old red castle, when they heard the tinkling of fairy bells, that an- nounced the coming of the princess. Suddenly she appeared in a cloud of silver mist, her arms outstretched alluringly, and her red lips curving into a smile that dazzled the young princes. They had never seen such beauty, and their hearts were filled with joy. On the lawn before the old castle, they went through some mystic rites of welcome that api)eared to delight the Spirit of Spring, for she opened her lips to speak ; but just then the gates of the castle opened with a clang. Now this castle was the abode of the man to whom the King had en- trusted the education of his sons, and this wise man knew that the worship of Spring, would distract the minds of the young princes. In the twinkling of an eye, he changed himself into a giant, with the hel)) of the fairies, and strode down the ste])s to save the misguided princes from their fate. At his approach, the world seemed to grow dark, and even the radiance of the princess was dimmed. Before the eyes of the fairy princess, the giant tore off the disguises of the princes, and then returned to his castle, glad that he had been able to save the King ' s sons; while the S])irit of Spring van- ished in a shower of silver, leaving the disillusioned young princes to find their way home, having lost all hope of winning the beautiful princess. One hundred forty-seven WE GO TO A M OVIE Going to the movies constitutes our supreme enjojment. We consider ourselves too old for games ; we do not enjoy playing cards ; we do not care for dancing; we do not read, except when our English teacher demands a written book-report ; we find that playing the various musical instruments is more labor than pleasure; we don ' t like vocal training, and neither does our family ; we are not old enough to seek amusement by entertaining, or being entertained by our friends ; we find that physical pleasures require too much exertion to satisfy us (not that we are lazy — we are merely weary). Therefore, we turn with a welcome smile to the movies. The first preliminary to be done away with before our wish to see the Saturday night movie thriller is gratified, is the inconsequential little matter of money for admission. We are no longer as young as we once were, and so a dime will not suffice as it did in former years. Of course, there is always the possibility of camouflaging our age ; this is usually accomplished by bending our knees, and assuming a facial expression originally intended to convey a semblance of extreme youth, but which usually succeeds in being that open-mouthed, simple stare common to certain adenoidic types of humanity. However, we are not always successful in our attempt to cheat the management out of twenty cents. We have numerous novel little ways of obtaining money. One is the well known method of holding out change. Understand, there is nothing dis- honest about this. When mother forgets to demand the change, we, being after all, only human, usually forget to ofi ' er it. By the employment of this method, we rarely find ourselves lacking the price of admission, in case father should balk. Balking, it seems, is one of father ' s worst habits. He has a mania for refusing to dole out the necessary cash on Saturday nights, when we desire most to go, that being the night of another episode of the breath-taking serial, The Sawmill Murder Mystery, or, Little Maudie ' s Perils. If it ever so happens that we do not possess enough of this absent- mindedly acquired money to insure our admittance, we have always before us an oportunity to blackmail our elder sister. We do not like to do this, however. Not that we feel any great amount of compassion for our sister, but because we realize that we are not ])erfect either. We do not confide this in order to reveal our magnanimity, but to show that our sister might in some way be able to turn the tables on us. We would not enjoy that in the least. However, we always get the money somehow. We haven ' t missed a Saturday night thriller for two years. After we procure the price of admission, our next proceeding is to stock up with chewing-gum and popcorn. Formerly, we preferred peanuts in the shell, because they crackled so loudly ; but we found to our dismay, that our appetite for them was too easily satiated, and for that reason our annoyance to the people around us was short-lived. We simply could not sacrifice a comfortable, not-too-full feeling in the region of our stomach, even to enrage an entire theatre of people. W ith the beginning of the coming attractions, we start chewing our gum. This is an art which we have perfected, and we are duly proud of ourselves. We are sure that there is no one else in all the world so gifted in popping gum as we are. Those in the gallery crane their necks to watch us as we reveal our genius along this line. One hundred forty-eight At last the feature play begins. On tliis Saturday night, the movie is entitled, The Midnight Menace. This sounds good to us. We hope that it is a western. Oh! It is! We heave a sigh of joy, and remove our gum. After carefully sticking it on the arm of our theatre chair, we open our pop- corn sacks, and prepare thoroughly to enjoy ourselves. The popcorn is fresh, and crackles loudly, to our great delight. While we are gulping down a great hit, our attention is distracted by the arrival of an amorous-looking young couple who sit next to us. We decide that the time is ripe to utter our cleverest witticisms on the subject of love. We enjoy this immensely, and the bounds of our pleasure seem limitless when the young couple seek other places. Of course, these innocent little diversions side-track our interest from the play; but we care little, for our main reason in coming is to follow up our serial. We await the final fade-out with a great deal of anticipation. Little Maudie is our conception of the perfect heroine. She is extremely beautiful, in a wistful, appealing way, and yet she possesses a brilliant mind. We think Maudie is lucky to have both beauty and brains. Things seldcmi work out so nicely in real life : we have found that if people have beauty, they usually lack brains, and if they have brains, they are minus beauty. Even we admit that we are not beautiful. In addition to both of these assets, Maudie has a hero who proves him- self to be of great assistance to her. So far in our serial, he has delivered her from horrible deaths — drowning, imprisonment, death from a tribe of savages, burning, the sawmill, a den of lions, and another one which we cannot define except as squashing. We mean that the villains were about to send an avalanche of stones and boulders down upon little Maudie. This would have been terrible, but, as usual, the hero api)eared to save her from being mashed. To use a slang word for the purpose of making a pun, we would say that both Maudie and her hero were already mashed. .•Ml considered, we envy little Maudie and her adventurous life, and we breathlessly follow her career as it unreels before our eyes. The end of episode eight comes with little Maudie struggling desperately for her life. She is tied up in a huge sack, and the relentless, blood-thirsty villains are preparing to toss her into the briny deep. Our eyes bulge out iji horror at this new catastrophe. We gulp, and the next instant we read that episode nine will be shown next week. We remove our gum from the arm of our theatre chair, and file out with the departing throngs, already anticipating little Maudie s perils in next week ' s episode. NOVEMBER November dressed in iaz7.1ing sheen Of color rare and gay, Now acts the most emphatic scene Of Autumn ' s passing play. One hundred forty-nine ALUMNI Waukegan, III, May 9, 1926 Mr. Edwin Nelson, Alumni Editor, The Bloom , Chicago Heights, 111. _Dear Mr. Nelson : , When you ask a fellow to list his own achievements, interesting work (to me, but who else cares?) and then ask for my opinions, poor as they may be, you have given me a very difficult assignment. I took my B. S. in Science at Illinois in 1919, and also found time to dabble in sports and politics. In 1924, the University was kind enough to give me my M. S. This time all my work was confined to Entomology and Education. Wrote a more or less comprehensive thesis on The Snow-White Linden Moth for which I was awarded an Associate membership in Sigma Xi, honorary scienti- fic fraternity. Also had enough friends so that memberships in Phi Delta Kappa and Delta Kappa Pi, honorary Education fraternities, were granted me. This summer I am returning to the University to begin work on a Doctor ' s degree, and will again major on a certain phase of sex-determination in regard to the Linden moth. Since 1920, I have been teaching in Wellington and Waukegan, and incidently coaching. When I received your letter I again felt the gripping of the Old Bloom spirit, and once more I was carried back to Bloom. Do you know that we Alumni aren ' t following our Alma Mater as close as we should, aren ' t as loyal as we should be? Do you know what loyalty really is? I think that loyalty is a sentiment. If we are to make sure of preserving our loyalty, our sentiment, what better way is there than by reviving the past? Can ' t you see it all over again: the field, the crowded gym, the band, tjie dances, and parties? Your- self, a Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, a Senior? Can you see yourself at Com- mencement, and now only Memories, made sweeter because we feel that our Alma Mater has not forgotten us. Thanking you kindly for having remembered me and assuring you that I appreciate your interest very much, I am Yours sincerely. Al. G. Grosche University of Illinois, Champaign, 111. Mr. Edwin Nelson, Alumni Editor, Dear Sir: PROGRESS Last fall I met a man on the campus who, on learning that I was from Chi- cago Heights and Bloom, told me that he had visited there and had been to the high school. My acquaintance remarked on the many floor-levels in our high school building. That my friend should notice only that our high school was a building having many different levels made me very sad, for I knew that he retained a poor im- pression of our high school. hundred fifty The high school board and our dean of principals the estimable Mr. Boyer, have seen to it that our community has constantly had the benefits of superior in- structors. There must be progress in any activity if it is to grovk or become more valu- able. Fortunately, the people of the high school district have chosen as members of their high school board men of a caliber having the ability to see beyond the next ten years, and the courage to appreciate the inadequacy of our high school at present, as well as the great growth it must be prepared for in the immediate future. Sir, Bloom ' s progress in comparison to her deserts may appear to the objec- tive observer as insufficient, but it appears to me that the point to be remembered and insisted upon is that Bloom has only in recent years become conscious of her- self, and of her future which she must prepare for if she is adequately to carry on her trust. Sincerely, Paul K. Shanks Chicago Heights, 111. Mr. Edwin Nelson, April 30, 1926 Alumni Editor, Dear Friend : Your letter received and if I can be of any assistance in making The Bloom a success this year, I will be very glad to do so. My career at Bloom started in 1906 and ended with my graduation in 1910. These were the days when we were in the original old building, played basketball in the attic and had the cafeteria in the basement. It was during these years that shorthand and typewriting was first introduced and I took up both of these to- gether with the first Manual Training Class under Mr. Dyer. I had the good fortune of attending my four years without being absent or tardy, if that is any- thing of importance. As I look back I can see how fortunate I was to have men, such as E. L. Boyer and W. P. Dyer interested in my welfare, and my respect for them grows with the years. After leaving Bloom, I worked in the Chemical Laboratory at the Rail yay Steel Spring Co. when it was first built, and then kept books for the late P. F. Jirtle for six months. Mr. Jirtle was at that time Secretary of the Bloom Board and I can remember typewriting the first looseleaf minutes for the Board. From there I went to the Hamilton Piano Co., as Cost Clerk and stayed there for two years and three months, long enough to pitch some real good ball in the Factory League made up of former Bloom men. I was an instructor at the college for two years and then the war broke out and I enlisted as a I ' irst Lieutenant in the Dental Corps. I am at present serving my second term as a member of the elementary School Board, sitting in the board room which at one time was the scene of my school days. I have watched the progress of Bloom for many years, having lived here for twenty-five years, and I glory in its achievements. Bloom to me is as good as any High School now existing. Its Alumni have demonstrated that they are equal to those of any other school and if a count were accurately made. Bloom Alumnf would be found holding their own in nearly every important calling in life. I sincerely hope that .some day my boy may foHow me and becorne an Alumnus of that dear old school which holds so many pleasant memories both i i- me and my wife. •  Yours sincerely, Wm. a. CusrcK, Jr. Class of 1910 One hundred fifty- i September 5 Only 275 more days of school. Football practice starts — 214 freshmen — enter the portals of Bloom. September 7 Seniors gaininjj dignity. School really is down to business by this time. Miss Smith returns from an extended trip in Europe. Bloom Masque members announced. First game, East Aurora 7; Bloom 6. Swede rims 45 City officials appointed. Girls ' Glee Club try out (not so Broadcaster is cast abroad for the first time. Bloom 14; Pullman Tech 0. Good work, boys! Councilmen elected after much commotion. The school is placed back on its feet again — the Seniors September 12 September 24 September 23 September 26 yards for our six September 27 good). October 2 October 3 October 6 October 9 organized. October 10 Hedrick makes a touchdown in the first league gar,;c, and Bloom wins in spite of the referee! Bloom 7; LaGrange — Pet. 1,000. October 12 Ditching automatically stops. Guards are installed. October 22 and 23 Light weights weigh in for basketball. October 24 Bloom 7 ; Riverside 0. Pet. 750. Team blossoms out in Old Gold Jerseys and socks. October 30 At great expense to the management, Joe Algernon McGrane is secured to speak for the Kankakee Pep meeting. October 31 Bloom 7; Kankakee 0. Seniors give a Hallowe ' en party which (we found out later) is the best of the vear. Nov 0 No. 13 G f- ' i — 1 % M i IT ! 1 f ' r f y : NovZ • ■ ; f. No.2if ■iliL. CUsD November 1 Fifty-five days to Xmas. November 7 Bloom staff elected. Second Social Hour huge success because there was no football practice. November 9 Boys ' Glee Club sings for faculty convention at Harvey. (No school at Bloom). Thanks. November 10 New piano adorns platform. Cannot be touched for less than $1,600. November 11 Bloom commemorates the anniversary of the end of the World War. Attorney Parr speaks. November 13 (Friday) Annual pep meeting for Thornton football game. Great stir ! Bandmen. Snake dance in the evening and a big bonfire. November 14 Seven years ' war ends — Bloom 3 ; Thornton 6. Too bad. November 16 Big noise — Hollis visits school. November 20 Team leaves for Clinton, Iowa. November 21 Chicago Heights leaves for Clinton — 600 strong! Partly avenge former defeat; Bloom 12; Clinton 6. November 24 Pep Meeting — Mr. Nelson tries to fill Mayor Ritter ' s shoes. December 1 Twenty-four days till Xmas. Football team banqueted at Thomas Hotel. December 3 Numerous lockers for rent. Twenty-two days till Xmas. December 7 President Coolidge speaks — via radio. (Thanks, Frank, for radiola.) Eight days till Xmas. December 9 Football team again feted — Kiwanis Club the hosts. Ex- tended invitation to Lincoln-Dixie. December 10 Enthusiasm gathering (pep meeting) for first basketball game. Last big meet for football men at Chamber of Commerce banquet. Fifteen davs till Xmas. •c = %ak iiiiiii ' i::;: ' ..,. December 11 Lights beat Momence 46 — 3. Heavies lost 14 — 10. All Americans participate. Fourteen days till Xmias. December 15 Mr. Philip asks help for the needy. Ten days yet. December 17 His call is answered. Band and Girls ' Glee Club warble a concert. Eight more days. — -JDecember 19 Sophomore party — there ' s a Santa Glaus! Six days yei. December 21 Bloom Masque presents three one-act plays. There ain ' t no Santa Claus, after all — it ' s only Jerry. Four days till Xmas. December 23 — The Open Road presented to student body. School term ended. Two more days. December 25 Sixteen handkerchiefs, three ties — December 30 Alumni hop. January 4 School starts — only 66 days to Easter vacation. Large dis- play of Christmas neckwear. January 7 Through the political pull of our Mayor and superfluous expenses, we were able to secure Joe McGrane and Hally Meidell TOGETHER for our Pep meeting. January 8 Lights still going. Heavies still stopping. Bloom lights 28 ; Watseka 8. Bloom heavies 15; Watseka 21. January 12 First aid exhibition by Public Service Team. All the sen- iors doll up for Bloom pictures. January 13 Faculty ' s long and lengthy debate on subject, Individual Pictures for Bloom or not. January 14 Faculty Individual Pictures taken. January 15 Pep meeting for first league game — What do flowers do in spring? ' BLOOM. JanuaiT 16 Lights still going. Heavies stop ped stopping and started to start. Bloom Heavies 24; Blue Island 15. Bloom Lights 31; Blue Island 10. January 22 Two games won. Bloom Heavies 26 ; Hammond 18. Bloom Lights 23 ; Hammond 8. January 25 Mr. Boyer reads letters from Red Grange, Uncle Walt, P ' ord and Glenn, etc. (Incidentally, subscribe to the Broadcaster.) January 28 and 29 Lotta exams! January 30 More exams. Lost to K. K. K. (Too many exams.) Cap- tain Swede Peterson declared ineligible. Eight semesters. One hundred fift -fi FEBRUARY February 2 Freshies arrive little than ever. 57 varieties. February 5 Lost two more games to old rival. Bloom Heavies, 18 ; Thornton, 21. Bloom Lights, 14; Thornton, 15. February 6 No school (Saturday). Win two, too. Bloom Heavies 18; Deerfield 15. ' Bloom Lights 15; Deerfiield 14. February 8 Chicago Junior Press Club issues first edition of High School World to Bloom. February 9 Lose two in U High ' s gvm. Bloom Heavies 22 ; U High 32. Bloom Lights 14; U High 17. February 12 No school. Down to K. K. K. — Heavies lose ; Lights win. February 13 Bloom versus Blue Island. Bloom Heavies 29; Blue Island 4. Bloom Lights 29; Blue Island 15. February 15 Mr. Mumford leaves for Chicago. Mr. Briggs now officiates. February 18 Anthony Antonio Tony Caesar Rufo speaks, and we split with U High. February 19 Same with Watseka. I ' reshmen are introduced into new- City Government. February 20 Seniors receive their long-looked-for pictures. February 25 Great conjestion ! Bulletin board announces drawings for tournament. MARCH March 4 Miss Powell speaks on, The Miracle. Peppy send off for the team that went to tournament. Bloom 29 ; Reddick 8. March 5 Second game Bloom 15; K. K. K. 17. (Thornton won tourna- ment — good stuff, T. T. H. S.) March 11 Chorus of operetta sings from platforna. W ' e think we will go. Mar 18 y A p March 16 Operetta L-D packed. (Sardine-like). Swede and Spaf- ford put on a never-to-be-forgotten love scene. Oh ! Oh ! March 17 Everybody wears Freshman colors. March 18-21 Nothing doing — very dead around here. March 22 Big New Trophy case is found in hall. March 25 Hobo Day! Twenty-five boys go home to sleep. March 26 Junior Highway Robbery ; penny social. March 27 Bloom Masque ball. March 31 Big snow. Vacation starts! Day earlier on account of said snow. APRIL April 1 You thought that we were going to say something about April fool ' s day — but we aren ' t. April 6 We had a four day rest — spring vacation. April 8 Senior Movie — (No fire). April 10 Glee club hop. April 12 Girls ' Week prizes awarded. April 19 City Government officials visit Lindblom — Royal Welcome; fine dinner. April 22 Captain Kelly introduces a Man to man proposition. April 23 Wrestling tournament. Dyer, Millar, Long, and Poorman manage to stay on top. Last social hour staged. April 24 Dyer is proclaimed county champion of 125 Pounders. Team places fourth. April 24 Freshman Party. .• pril 29-30 Bloom Masque presents three one-act plays. One hundred fifty-seven r Q - Q-H xaM4i ca (Pe UA  a0.cJU X, I W o- J? May 1 Quadrangular track meet. Bloom third. May 3 Senior Class play try-out.s. May 8 Senior Hop. They hopped to their hearts ' content. May 10 Early morning drill starts. Oh ! Oh ! Preparatios for Boys ' Week. May 10 Mr. Ray Edman speaks on South America. ' Two hours entertainment. May 12 Francelia Wilkening elected May Queen. ' May 19 City officials elected for 1926-27. ■ May 21 Boys ' Day Speaker. Boys ' Day Parade. — Wally leads. 31ay 21-24 May Festival, - ay 29 Junior Prom. ' June 3-4 The Goose Hangs High for two days. June 13 Baccalaureate sermon. ,June 16 Commencement. Dear Old Bloom High, Bless Her Name. An l thus does end our four years of trial, toils, hardships and good times. HUMOR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FRESHMEN AND SENIORS 17 credits. Five or 6 years. Freshmen buy theme paper. Seniors know how to make excuses. Freshmen get on the Honor Roll, Seniors take American History. Seniors are the Bosses. Freshmen get on the Honor Roll. Seniors have dates for parties. Freshmen leave school promptly at 3 :20. Seniors can applaud speakers. Freshmen don ' t pull wise cracks in class. Seniors go in the Library. Freshmen stay away from the shower rooms. Freshmen have fountain pens. Seniors use them. Freshmen use wooden pencils. Seniors keep their hair combed Freshmen pay attention in the assembly. Seniors are an asset to the school. Miss Hielscher: You will have to show me where you found it before I ' ll beheve you. Dan Siefer: Yeh, vou must be from Missouri. One hudiircd fifty-nine HYMNS OF HATE The Guy I hate Is the Freshie who yells, Aw, you were a freshie Once yourself. The girl I hate Is Helen Lance ; She continues to sing Thruout our dance. A guy I hate Is Jimmy Klein, In the cafeteria He sneaks in line. Another I hate Is a guy named Herman, He always gets An A in German. A guv I hate Is Wally Hope, He always gets The inside dope. Mildred Van Brink Is a girl I hate; She says, I ' m sorry. But I have a date. I hate a girl Whose name is Manie, She always asks, Who won the game? Another I hate Is Warren Ruflf, He always writes This kind of stuff. I hate a guy No matter how civil If he reads all This sort of drivel. EDUCATION— BY ONE WHO HASN ' T HAD ANY Education is the stuff that themes are made of. It ' s the jam that stocks the noodle, and fools the world. It ' s the eram what am. It ' s the long way to sit and worry! It ' s the choice with a trial! It ' s the stuff you spend half your life getting and the other half trying to remember. It ' s the thing the freshman thinks he is going to get and the senior thinks he has. It is a con- glomeration of facts, fancies, fiction, fables and fun mxied with gray matter, common sense and general inexperience usually all served to begin, in large, generous doses. I wouldn ' t take a million dollars for the one I already have, nor give a nickel for another like it. Ask the man who owns it ! One hundred sixty i = w BLOOM STATIC Miss Smith : How did it happen that Van Ruren got into the good graces of Jackson? Wilbur Sadler: It ' s a long story. Miss Wallace (after reading in Burke) : Now, I ' ll skip a little. Miss Hielscher: Would you use the verb ' estar ' in this sentence? Dan Seifer : Yes, because it ' s conditionalish.  « Mr. Ridlin (during physics experiment) : Are you all hooked up? , w Miss Way (to Genevieve Stemberger) : Will you please make a list of the absentees who are present.  « Bing! Bang! Boom! Rap! Bang! Smash! Mr. Tallmadge: I wish the janitor would stop popping corn during this period. Miss Smith (in American History class) : State the Fifteenth Amendment. Girl : The Fifteenth Amendment gave Negro Sufifrage to Women. One hundred si.vty-one ,ii? « i rojl t .KI.DiCf ' i ' - ' i One hundred sixty-three TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST NATIONAL BANK SHOWS SPECTACULAR GROWTH NINETEEN twenty-six brings with it the twenty-fifth anniversary year for the First National Bank of Chicago Heights. In nineteen hundred one, Mr. E. R. Davis, who was previously an officer of the; First National Bank of Litchfield, Illinois, and a banker at Gillespie, Illinois, came to Chicago Heights, and anticipating a future fqr the little town, interested a group of the prominent citizens in starting the First National Bank. There was at that time but one bank in the town, the Bank of Chicago Heights, of which Mr. William John McEldowney was president, and Mr. David Wallace, cashier. This bank is now the First State Bank of Chicago Heights. The new First National Bank was organizeld with a paid in capital of fifty thousand dollars. They qpened a banking room on the west side of what was then West End Avenue, in a little building about where Waddington ' s market now stands. The first officers were: W. E. Canedy, president; J. W. Thomas, vice-president; E. R. Davis, cashier. Mr. Canedy was the founder and first head of the Canedy Otto Manufacturing Company, and Mr. Thomas was a prominent manufacturer, and at that time connected with the Inland Stee ' l Company. Both of these gentlemen were inactive officers of the bank. The management of the hank was in the hands of E. R. Davis, cashier. The first directors of the bank were William E. Canedy, John W. Thomas, Frederick Wilkening, Robert Isaacs and Edward R. Davis. Early in the year nineteen hundred two, W. W. M. Davis, a son of E. R. Davis, was made assistant cashier, and assisted his father in the management of the bank from that time on. In nineteen hundred five, Mr. Canedy resigned as president of the bank, and his office was filled by Mr. Thomas. E. R. Davis was made vice; president, and W. W. M. Davis, cashier. The bank at this time had deposits of one-half million dollars In nineteen hundred eight, Chicago Heights, suffered a severe loss in the death of Mr. Thomas, one of the most highly respected men in the county, and E. R. Davis, was made President of the First National Bank. The board of directors at this time was composed of E. R. Davis, Frederick Wilkening, W. W. M. Davis, F. B. Furnis, and Mary H. (Mrs. J. W.) Thomas, and for the first time since nineteen hundred five, the office of vice preisident was made an inactive one, it being filled by Frede ' rick Wilkening. In nineteen hundred eleven, Charles F. Meyers was made assistant cashier. In nineteen hundred fourteen occurred the death of Mr. W. E. Canedy, the first president, and a vital factor in the organization of the institution. In nineteen hundred nineteen, W. W. M. Davis was made vice president, making this office again active, which it has ever since remained. Charles F. Meyers was made cashier and A. J. West was appointed assistant cashier. From this time on, the growth of the bank has been very satisfactory to its stockholders and officers. In the beginning of the! year nineteen hundred twenty-four, another change was made in the official line-up of the organization, which left it is follows: E. R. Davis, chairman of the Board; W. W. M. Davis, president; Chas. F. Meyers, vice president and cashier; E. R. Davis, Jr., assistant vice president; A. J. West and F. W. Laudsea, assistant cashiers. This is the line up of the official family of the bank at the present time. The total resources of the First Natiqnal Bank at the close of business April 12, 1926 werej over three million five hundred thousand dollars, with( deposits running in excess of three million dollars. Among the past personnel of the board of directojrs of the First National ' Bank are several who have gone on beyond. Those who were not already mentioned as being on the initial board were F. B. Furniss, W. E. Williams, and F. C. Deming. These men helped to make the bank what it now is. The present directors of the bank are E. R. Davis, W. W. M. Davis, Chas. F. Meyers, Frederick Wiikening and Fred H. Ayer. = L SCHOOL DAY REMEMBRANCES A fine watch holds first place among all gifts that graduates prefer to receive THERE IS A (.RIEN MODEL FOR EVERY TASTE AM) ITKSE $25.00 AND UP HARRY W. YASEEN WATCH AND DIAMOND MERCHANT Nt-ai- Kirst Stall- Hank Chicago Heights Real Estate Exchange REAL ESTATE — LOANS — INSURANCE TELEPHONE CHICAGO HEIGHTS 200 1608 Otto Boulevard Chicago Heights, Illinois The world is a wonderful place — ask the seniors. What did you learn about Latin? Nothing. ' How ' s that? Well Ceasar and those other fellows, like Cicero, I)eat me to it. Remark : Gosh, all this school teaches is English ! ' Ans. : Well you ' re not in Europe. One hundred sixty-five ■= 5 = ' - - v % •■S- All Orders Delivered Free to Any Part of the City H. G. Thoeming Go GROCERY AND MARKET Quality and Service our Motto I 1604 Otto Boulevard Chicago Heights .._. WILLIAM ROSENFELDER HARDWARE :: TOOLS CUTLERY Paints and Household Goods •57 Illinois Street Chicago Heights, Illinois COMPLIMENTS OF Johnson Oil Company 1926 FIRST STATE BANK OF CHICAGO HEIGHTS Way back when Chicago Heights was a very small town and Main Street was the principal thorofare, the first bank was established. This was in 1893 and the bank occupied the brick building on Main Street at the head of Halsted Street. The bank began as Mc- Eldowney Co. but in 1896 it was incorporated under the Laws of the State of Illinois as the Bank of Chicago Heights. The original stockholders were Wm. John McEldowney, James H. McEldowney, John Howard McEldowney, Mrs. C. L. Vanderlip, (mother of Frank A. VanderHp), David Wallace, and Joseph Orr. The first officers were Wm. John McEldowney, President, and David Wallace, Cashier. Upon the death of Wm. John McEldowney in 1910, George I. McEldowney succeeded his father in the office of President. David Wallace has faithfully served the bank and the :ommunity for thirty-three years i and is Cashier today. The First State Bank of Chi- cago Heights has grown from a small bank with a capital of $25,000 to a flourishing financial institution ynth Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits of $336,- 948.36 and Deposits of nearly Two and One Half Million Dollars. As the bank has grown, the number of its friends has in- creased, until today, this strong financial organization offers prac- tically every modern banking service and occupies an enviable position in the business life of the community. BANK OF GtilGHQO HEIGHTS (MCELDOWNEY . CO.) Deposit Accounts Received, Loans at Current Rates, Drafts and Credits Sold, Collections Promptly Made. Oommercial Paper Bought, Safe Deposit Vaults Rented, Insurance Policies Written, Agency for Properties. CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK CHICAGO CORRESPONDENT. CLEARING HOUSE CONNECTION. 1 1 1912 C. W. Jorgenson purchased the jewelry store of Kling, at that time situated at 291 Illinois Street. In 1914, the store was moved to larger quarters at 51 Illinois Street, which is their present location. In 1918 C. W. Jqtgenson retired and left for the Wast. George Vellender and George Whitfield, both former employees of Jorgenson, purchased the business and since then have come to the front as two of our leading jewelers. - jif. u THE J. F. LEISING DEALERS IN CO., Inc BUILDING MATERIAL LUMBER — + ' A MODERN POOR RICHARD SAYS 1. Don ' t pawn your ear muffs because you see a swallow. 2. A fellow who travels about gathers no money, unless he ' s a railroad conductor. 3. It ' s a long worm that can ' t reverse. 4. Don ' t judge a watermelon by its cover. 5. Hoping for something is one thing — getting it is another. 6. A Greek does not go into partnership with a Jew. CiHrCAGO ROAD Sr ILLINOIS ST., O.SVANNATTA.PH.G.RP. CHICAGO HEIGHTS.ILU. One hundred sixty-eight W 3 J THE Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York is the oldest in the country, and is impregnably strong. It is just the kind of institution that youwould choose for a vital financial service to be rendered in your behalf if you were not here to perform it yourself. You can safely trust your boy ' s interests to it, — it has been faithfully protecting fathers and mothers and boys and girls since 1843. Start your boy right! — as each year is being done for thousands of boys by thc usands of fathers — put him in on the ground floor in his life insurance. Representative HARRY L. W O O D 1729 HALSTED STREET The RELIABLE STORE For Men HATS CAPS SHOES CLOTHING FURNISHINGS GEORGE KATZ 45 ILLINOIS STREET CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS 1 I I COPPETELLI BROTHERS Where Music Is Sweetest ' 20 ILLINOIS STREET PHONE CHICAGO HEIGHTS 2015 ! i SAV IT WITH FLOWERS FLOWERS TELEGRAPHED ANYWHERE H. J. PETERSON 21st Florist PHONE CHICAGO HEIGHTS 373 All out-doors invites your Kodak Autographic Kodaks, $6.50 up Brownie Cameras, $2.00 up Kodak Film in the Yellow Box Expert Developing and Printing C. H. KAPPEMEYER VICTORIA HOTEL BUILDING THE RAILWAY STEEL SPRING COMPANY THE plant of the Railway Steel- Spring Company, at 23rd Street and Euclid avenues, in Chicago Heights was organized originally as the Inter- Ocean Steel Company early in the year 1909. The plan is still often referred to as the Inter Ocean and is known as the Inter Ocean works among the several plants of the Railway Steel-Spring Company. As built by the Inter Ocean Steei Company, the plant contained a complete open hearth steel plant and specially designed mills to roll steel tires for use on locomotives and car wheels and these miU will also roll other hoop, or band- shaped steel rings of heavy section. Machinery was also installed at the time to finish these ring-shap«d products and to manufacture what are termed steel-tired or built-up car wheels. The Inter Ocean Steel Company began actual manufacturing operations in April 1910, and they continued operation of the plant until August 1911, when the complete plant was sold to the Railway Steel- Spring Company of New, Jersey. This latter company has operated the plant continuously up to the present time, and, in the year 1913, added a large building with all the necessary machinery to manufacture all kinds of heavy steel springs, such as are used on the locomotives and cars of the various railways of the country. The capacity productiop of the plant has been 6500 net tons i)er month of steel tires and other ring shaped products from the original tire plant, and 2400 net tons of steel springs of all kinds from the spring plant. The number of employees vary between 375 and 400, coming from all sections of the city, and the suburbs to the south. While clqsely affiliated for many years, there has just been effected a complete merger of the various properties of the Railway Stael-Spring Company and of the American Locomotive Company. The plants of the two companies dot the map from Montreal, Canada and Dunkirk, N. Y. op the; north, to Richmond, Va., on the south, and from Schenectady, N. Y., and Paterson, N. J., on the east, to Chicago Heights and East St. Louis, III., on the west. Various other large plants are scattered through Peinnsylvania. The ojnly other large plant of this company with operations exactly paralleling the operations of the Inter Ocean is the plant at Latrobe, Penn- sylvania, from which plant came many of the original employees of the old Inter Ocean. Just to| show how near Chicago Heights came to NOT GETTING the Inter Ocean works, soma old correspondence has lately come to light, of the days when the original company had not yet selected a site, and a letter from a genuine Florida type of real estjate promoter was found in which) this individual sets forth the advantages of the particular site he has to offer, near the Lake George region, Indiana, and he extols the pure and invigorating air, the winters tempered by the close proximity to Lake Michigan which in turn keeps the summer temperature down, and the many flourishing cities nearby affording excellent residence and living advantages too numerous toi mention. He did not say how close below the surface qf the ground you could find the water level or even whether the surface was above water level. Under the merger spoken of, the plant here will still be known as the Inter- Ocei n plant of the Railway Steel- Spring Company. One hundred senienty-one COMPLIMENTS ABBOTT, HOOD 8c SMITH LAWYERS CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILL. SCHOOL SUPPLIES ._. CANDIES SCHOOL BOOKS ICE CREAMS croLus 1656 CHICAGO ROAD - JULIA KING ' S CANDIES Fresh Twice Weekly BUILD FOR THE FUTURE A small investment now will bring big returns, as Chicago Heights grows. We will guard your interests and advise you as to the best way to invest your money. RITTER-WARREN CO. REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS INSURANCE LOANS Phone 27 1704 Chicago Road M = THE BUSINESS OF THIS BANK HAS LARGELY GROWN THROUGH OUR ABILITY TO ASSIST AND SERVE THE PEOPLE OF THIS COMMUNITY Commercial Banli of Chicago Heights (A STATE BANK) (R? SAFETY SERVICE Miss Smith: Who was President at this time? David Stein : Taylor. Miss Smith: What happened to him? David Stein: He died. + LINDIX MOTOR SALES CO. Sales — Service 2015 CHICAGO ROAD CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILL. One hundred seventy-three Jahn and Oilier Again THE largest personal service school annual engraving house in America. More than twenty years of successful experi- ence in Year Book designing and engraving. Three hundred craftsmen, specially skilled in Annual production. Over 40,000 square feet of operating space in our own fireproof building. A specially organized system of production that insures indi- vidual attention to each Annual, efficient manufacture, and on-time delivery. The personal co-operation of a creative and research service department with a reputation. TmI S ANN t ENORAvEO LOOKING back at B. T. H. S. over a period of thirty years, I have watched it grow bigger and better, ever on the alert to. offer our young people an opportunity to obtain a good education. It gives me great pleasure to assist them in making their annual, The Bloom, a success. JOHN MICHALEK CHICAGO HEIGHTS STANDARD PLANT ENJOYS SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS THE business was started on March 17, 1919, at 1731 Halsted St., Chicago Heights, with Edward Bender, and William E. Wegener in a partnership. The plant consisted of litle more than two small job presses. June 10, 1924, the company was incorporated for $50,000.00 and moved into a new building, located at 1529 Halsted Street. Fourteen people are now employed. Two large presses, a Miller High Speed press, two folders, a late model paper cutter, two late model Linotypes and other thoroughly modern equipment, ready to render any printing service — day or night, are now operated. They are also at the present time printing the Broadcaster, a paper issued by Bloom High. William E. Wegener is the President and Business Manager of the company, and predicts a still larger growth in the years to come. Maurino R. : What is the Spanish word for sugarbowl ? Is Cuba called The Sugarbowl ? Ario LaM. : No, Porky Toll ' s is the Sugarbowl. I COMPLIMENTS OF TUEIR POORHlAn PERLMAN MOTOR CO. Hudson-Essex 82-84 ILLINOIS STREET Telephone 374 j GE 4 . — ■■ — ... GEORGE MOORE KICK HORN i (Hompltmcnts of (Eamirg- tto fg. (So. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY? ' Hoarse, said the Bloom rooter. ' Ostracized, said the uninvited to the Junior Prom. ' Owsky-wow-wow, yelled the assembly. ' Swelled up, said the Junior. ' Green, said the Freshie. ' Single, said the Bachelor (professor). ' Occupied, said the time. All right, said the teacher. ' Finished, said a Senior. One hundred seventy-six W. F- Hildeinan PLUMBING AND HEATING FRED A. OPEL, R. P. H., Proprietor MAL PHILIPS, Clerk G. L. STOHR, R. H. P. OPENED for business December 16th, 1923, in Rau Building at 63 East Sixteenth Street. Business was slow at first but through honest dealing, courtesy, and service with a smile, we have prospered from the beginning. We are known as The Home of Good Malted Milks which is our main side line in connection with our drug business. We appreciate the co-operation of the students of Bloom which has helped to make this drug store a success. ILLINOIS DISTRIBUTING CO. Cadillac and Studebaker AUTOMOBILES Spindler-Koelling Company (INXdKPORATEU) FUNERAL SERVICE PRIVATE AMBULANCE LIMOUSINE HEARSE 12 ILLINOIS STREET CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS Telcphcjiics Chicago Heights 242 and 794-J ARTHUR STRUVE Realtor SELLS THE EARTH Mr. Ridlen : Then, one volt is equal to JR. Bright Junior: No, I am. ■ — Homcwood Office 6 Dixie Highway Phone Homewood 344 STEPHEN LUX CLEANERS AND DYERS Phone Chicago Heights 552 42 ILLINOIS STREET CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS One hundred scvcniy-ciglit i c S= 4. COMPLIMENTS OF Stolte Drug Co. Home of Guarantfcd l ' irniture 50 Illinoi.s Street WIEHL FURNITURE CO. Shakespeare as He Sees Us He sleeps easily because he cannot study. i Telephone 109 MODEL BAKERY High Class Bakery Goods 1 37 ILLINOIS STREET I CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS ! i +■ c. E. WALLACE COMPANY General Mach ine Shop TOOLS DIES FIXTIKES REIUIl.ni NC DESICMNG I ' KOUrCTIOX Phone 370 - - 1610-1616 Wentworth Avenue . H One hundred s.vcntx-ninc r ▼ - ' ' ' ' I I Telephone 1171 DR. F. G. BERSCHEID CHIROPRACTOR i Hours 12:30 to 3:00 7:00 to 8:00 Otlicr liours 1)_ - ai)pointnicnt i 8 Illinois Street Chicago Heights. I J, . ,. „. „. „ .. „ „, „-_«.„, HN li. UK UB— H N- BH — UK M Ml. — IIH IK HK- •j ,_BH- ii — uii — m — m — N — ■— 11 — — « — « — i — „U II II UN H | , — + COMPLIMENTS OF COLUMBIA TOOL STEEL Lillian G. (asking a (|uestion in Spanish) : Cortes die? Dan S. : He died in disgust. ' How and when did Parent: John, have vou dug that hole vet? John: No. Parent: No what? John: No shovel. bl Phone Chicago Heights 388 Rug Cleaning a Specialty PAHNKE ELLIOTT CLEANERS AND DYERS MERCHANT TAILORING 1651 Vincennes Avenue Chicago Heights, Illinois COMPLIMENTS OF WILLIAM GOLD Myrtle : I found the cutest little knife at home today ; I think I ' ll bring it to school tomorrow. Jane : You ' d better not. You ' re ' cutting up ' enough as it is. Fran : Augie, — Augie: No, you can ' t have it. R. V. CARRIER CO. ELECTRIC SHOP Everything Electrical 5 Illinois Street Phone C. H. 1481 One hundred cighty-onc r i. Linden Printing Company 727 SO. DEARBORN STREET CHICAGO Telephone Harrison 7462 HIGH SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS Printers of ' Bloom ' COMPLIMENTS OF WEST END FURNITUURE CO. YOUNG MEN Will find their wants in CLASSY TOGS — at— LURRIE BROTHERS Mr. Waldorf, giving an advanced assignment: Now for tomorrow, and I ' ll quit. Inquiring student: What is the hardest part of that Economic course you are taking? ' ' Experienced Student: Learning how to prt)nounce the name of the subject correctly. Dan Seifer (translating in Spanish lib) : Then came the Romans, Goth- ics and Frenchmens. (General laughter.) And the Count and his wife beautified the population. COMPLIMENTS OF ZOURI DRAWN METAL CO. One hundred eiyhly-three My mission is fulfilled, with hope That tales of ' Progress ' won,— To efforts of a greater scope. Will spur the reader on. ' Bloom t - i s S ' y J h T. - N r , ' -N -V KKi. Piet ' tH ACX-