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

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UR THEME HARKS BACK TO GLORIOUS DAYS OF OLD, WHEN TO GO VIKING MEANT TO GO ADVEN- TURING, ATHRILL WITH JOY IN SEEKING AND DISCOVERING NEW THINGS. IN PURSUIT OF THEIR ADVENTUROUS LIFE THE VIKING SEA-KINGS EARLY MASTERED THE ART OF PULLING TOGETHER FOR THE COMMON GOOD. THEIR LONG SHIPS DISPLAYED AL- WAYS A RAVEN BANNER, ITS BIRD SYMBOL SACRED TO ODIN, GOD OF WISDOM, WHO WAS EVER ATTENDED BY TWO SABLE COUN- SELORS -MEMORY AND THOUGHT. SO WE AT BLOOM, WITH THAT SAME VI- KING SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE QUEST FOR WISDOM OLD AND NEW, PULLING TO- GETHER, EACH FOR ALL, OUR RAVEN BANNER SYMBOLIC WITH MEMORY OF A PA ST ACHIEVEMENT AND THOUGHT FOR A FUTURE O F E N D E A V O R. FOIQE DID

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Ne'er zn human bosom have I found So 1mmy words of the old time. -Summmds' Edda noon I ADMIN ISTIQATIUN noolill CLASSES Boon Ill ATI-IL ETICS noon IV ACTIVITIES Boon v FEATIJIQES CDNTENIS

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This Bloom fund is our own, Well we love each hriclz and stone, From the ivy-wreuthed east gable To our quaint, time-worn North Hull. 1-And this love shall be the seed In New Bloom to ind its mvecl. HIS LOVELY OLD HOME HARBOR HAS SHELTERED US THRU THE YEARS, HERE WE HAVE LEARNED THE VIKING LESSONS OF CHEERY COURAGE AND WISE CONDUCT. WE HAVE BEEN TRUE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE VIKING TRADITION S OF GOOD MEMORY AND READY SPEECH. AT OLD BLOOM WE HAVE EVER STRIVEN TOWARD THEIR IDEAL, THE ETERNAL QUEST FOR BETTER THINGS. NOW THE DAY APPROACHES WHEN WE MUST ABANDON THE OLD PORT, OUTWARD BOUND, YET REMEMBER- ING THE VIKING RUNE, THERE IS SOMETHING B E T T E R THAN VICTORY, AND THAT IS T H E STRIVING. AIQIBO