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

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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

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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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WHO SAILS UNDER THE LINTELS OF THE TORII. SO WE MAY THINK OF OUR STUDENTS AS BOATS OUTWARD BOUND ON THE SEA OF LIFE, AND WE WISH FOR THEM GOOD FORTUNE. CONTINUE ALONG A FOREST AVENUE, BY WOODLAND RECESSES, AND SOON WE FIND OURSELVES AT A LANTERN GUARDED GATEWAY. FUGI, MAJESTIC, AGAINST THE VAULTED HEAVENS, SWEEPS EVER UPWARD. A TALL TORII MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE ASCENT. WE LIKEN THE SUCCESS OF OUR ATHLETES TO TOILING UP THE SLOPES TO THE CREST, FOR EVEN TO DREAM OF THE PEERLESS MOUNTAIN IS A PROMISE OF GOOD FORTUNE AND FUJI SYMBOLIZES SUCCESS AND TRIUMPH OVER OB- STACLES. LET US STAND ON THIS LEDGE. FROM THIS VANTAGE POINT, WHERE FUGI LIFTS HIS HEAD ON HIGH, WE SEE VARIED SCENES-LAKES, PINE FORESTS, AND WINDING STREAMS, THE REAL BEAUTY OF THE LAND. OUR SCHOOL ORGANIZATIONS, VARIED AS THE PANORAMA BEFORE US, SHOW IN THEIR FUNCTIONS THE REAL BEAUTY AND SPIRIT OF OUR SCHOOL. FARTHER ALONG MEMORY WAY, BY TWISTED PINES AND FANTASTICALLY SHAPED ROCKS, AND SUDDENLY A SIMPLE SHRINE. BEFORE IT A GRACEFUL FIGURE ARRANG- ING CHOICEST BLOSSOMS FOR AN OFFERING. SO WE PRE- SENT TO BLOOM OUR LITERARY PRODUCTIONS, THE FLOWERS OF OUR EFFORTS. NOW OUR WANDERINGS BRING US TO A QUIET BLUE STREAM WHERE CRANES, SYMBOLIC OF CONSTANCY, ARE WADING. HERE WE PART AND GO OUR SEPARATE WAYS. MAY WE ALWAYS CARRY WITH US IN MEMORY OUR HIGH SCHOOL YEARS, AND MAY WE ALWAYS THROUGH THESE TORII-MARKED PATHS PRESERVE THEIR BEAUTY.