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

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Ea'iz'01'-i11-Chief ELFRIEDE HORST Axsocizzfe Ea'iz'0r ROSALIND HUNTE Busimfss Manager HENRY THOEMING Asst. Business Mamzger J O H N L I T H W A Y ,

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DEDICATIO O THOSE WHO HAVE GUIDED US THROUGH THE MAZES OF UNCERTAINTY TO THE CLEAR FOUNTAINS OF TRUTH 1 WHO HAVE RE- VEALED TO US NEW FIELDS OF APPRECIATION FOR THE BEAUTIFUL IN ART, LITERA- TURE, AND LIFE ITSELF 1 WHO HAVE BEEN AN ABID- ING IDEAL OR INSPIRATION 1 TO OUR TEACHERS, WE, THE SENIOR CLASS, DEDICATE THIS, THE 1929 BLOOM

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EXPLANATION OF THE THEME T IS LOTUS LAND JAPAN. FLOATING RIBBONS OF MISTY MOONLIGHT. GLEAMING SUN SHAFTS. WHIS- PERING TREES AND NODDING FLOWERS CARESSED BY WAVES OF FRAGRANCE. THERE, ARCHING THE PATHWAY THAT APPROACHES HALLOWED GROUND, THE TORII PASS UNDER THE ARCH AND FOLLOW THE PATH IT INDI- CATES AND FAR OR NEAR ONE FINDS PERHAPS A TEM- PLE, BUT, MORE OFTEN, A SIMPLE SHRINE. STONE LAN- TERNS OF EXQUISITE BEAUTY LIGHT THE WAY. IN THIS OUR BLOOM, THE FAIRY DREAM OF A GOLD- EN YEAR ARE SHRINES HALLOWED BY MEMORY AND WE TOO ERECT TORII TO CONSECRATE THEIR BEAUTY. IN THIS OUR 1929 ANNUAL WE WOULD LIGHT AND KEEP AGLOW THE LANTERNS GUIDING TO YESTER YEAR. SO COME WITH ME DOWN MEMORY WAY AND BEHOLD THE SHRINES OF BLOOM. IT IS SPRING TIME AND THE ROAD IS FLANKED WITH BUDDING HAWTHORNE, ITS SNOWY BLOSSOMS SO REMINIS- CENT OF BLOOM, THAT WE GRACE OUR OPENING PAGES WITH ITS SIMPLE BEAUTY. THE WAY NARROWS TO A WELL WORN PATH AND THERE, THROUGH A MASSIVE ARCHED TORII, A BENIGN FACED BUDDHA, HIS UPLIFTED HAND SIGNIFYING THE TEACHER, GUARDS THE TEMPLE. JUST SO OUR FACULTY GUARDS OUR TEMPLE OF LEARN- ING, BLOOM. WE FOLLOW A WINDING PATHWAY INTO A MINIA- TURE GROVE. THE SOUND OF' LAPPING WATER, RIPPLING IRRIDESCENT WAVES CARESSING THE SHORE, AND OUT- LINED AGAINST THE SKY, A DAINTY TORII. IN THE DIS- TANCE THE WHITE SAIL BOATS. THIS RECALLS THAT IM- PLANTED IN THE HEART OF EACH JAPANESE IS THE BE LIEF THAT A SUCCESSFUL VOYAGE IS ASSURED TO ONE