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

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QTHE BLOOM ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Florence V. Wallace Ethel Mellinger Ida H. Way Frances Haessler English QHeadj English English English CChairman Literary Section QChairman of Junior Sectionj Journalism CChairman of Sophomore Bloomj QSponsor of Honor Societyj fAdvisor of Annual Sectionj CMember College Boardj and paperj Marjorie Switzer Grace Simmonds Pauline Drinkwater Miriam Brewer English English English English NDER the guidance of twelve competent teachers of the English department, the students develop a cultural taste for the best in literature and a finished style in writing. The freshmen enjoy Adventures in Literaturef, while the sophomores learn sentence structure and delight in reading stories of the medieval age. When juniors, they enter an extensive course of good writing in the form of short stories, essays, poetry, and drama. The fourth year of English, although an elective, attracts many students because of the interesting study of literature from the period of Chaucer to modern times. A journalistic course is offered so that the students may issue The Broadcaster and edit The Bloom. o Eigblcen

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OF 1933! HILDUR SODERMAN OFFICE FORCE Miss Soderman's gracious and invaluable services are rendered to principal, teachers, and students alike. Besides doing secretarial work for Mr. Boyer, she records all student rankings, keeps their programs, lists the honors, greatly assists Broadcaster and Bloom workers, and directs the school calendar. As clerk of the Board of Education, she attends the meetings and keeps accurate minutes of each. Her cheerful guidance and wealth of information enable the machinery of the office to run smoothly through- out the entire year. Although a member of the force for only two years, Harriet Kruse has proved exceedingly helpful to both faculty and students. Her detailed duties are making mimeographed tests for the teachers, sending out the daily announcements to be read in advisery groups, and doing various other office - V duties. Stella Leech, assistant to the school bookkeeper, Mr. G. A. Wilson, balances the high school accounts, con- tinually checks up on all the expenses of the various clubs, and helps the treas- urers of each to keep his accounts balanced. She also assists Miss Soderman with office duties, and checks o-n the daily attendance. HARRIET KRUSE STELLA LEECH Seuerxh-en

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OF 19335 U SOClIAlL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Adeline M. Smith Miner Coburn Margaret A. Norman Evamay Futcher American History flrieadj American History Modern History Early European History QAdviser of City of Bloomj Community Civics Early European History Community Civics Economics Physiology Isobel Mathews E. Pearl Hess Helen Marshall Ora M. Theobald American Government Librarian Cl-Ieadj Librarian fAssistantj English Community Civics Dean of Girls Q,Sponsor Junior Classy :iPaul BUSCY fSponsor of Girls Clubj Economics Civics HE Social Science Department covers three phases of history-ancient, modern, and American, civics, advanced government, and economics. The department is ably directed by Miss Smith and a corps of assistants, who cooperate with her in trying to give students a wide range of historical knowledge, an idea of governing people, and a conception of man's business relations with his fellow men. All this is accomplished after four years of study, beginning in the freshman year with community civics, and continuing by gradual steps through the fields offered to the study of economics in the latter half of the senior year. 'l Picture not in Nineteen