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

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OF 1933? VOCATIIONAIL DEPARTMENT W. P. Dyer Hadwin W. M'Cann Assistant Principal Manual Training Manual Training fHeadJ Lightweight Basketball Coach Baseball Coach Rinaldo Ignelzi Mary Erma Ash Manual Training ' English Mechanical Drawing Sponsor of Freshmen Section fDirector of Bloom Artj Harry E. Peterson Mechanical Drawing Architectural Drawing fAssistant on Bloom, :1'Flora M. Bliss William Manske Manual Training Adele Mernitz Speech Department CSponsor of National Thespiansj HE north basement rooms of Bloom are daily alive with the humming of high speed lathes and the buzzing of saws and other machinery. The click of drawing instru- ments and the murmur of voices at Mr. Peterson's desk greets the ears of one entering the mechanical drawing room. The lower classmen in both divisions learn to use the simpler tools. The juniors make pattern drawings for their use in 'pattern making. The seniors, looking toward the future, may choose between architectural and machine draw- ing. These become true machinists, for they make various articles from steel, such as nuts and bolts. 'Music Department discontinued Twenty-three

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l QTHE BLOOM COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Myrtle Spahn G. Alvin Wilson Viola DuFrain Elizabeth Hanawalt Commercial QI-Ieadj Commercial Commercial Commercial School Bookkeeper Bookstore Beatrice Parrish Lillian Biester Cecil M. Sarff Liela M. Veazey Commercial Commercial Physical Training Physical Training Athletic Coach CGirls' Athletic Coachl QSponsor of G.A.A.J NDER the supervision of Miss Myrtle Spahn, the Commercial Department, with its efficient instructors and enthusiastic students, co-operates to form a large oHice in which every class is employed. While the freshmen are managing a store, iling letters, and calculating by machine, the sophomores are doing the bookkeeping and accounting in this busy office. The juniors and seniors, with the aid of post-graduates, find many occasions to put their knowledge of secretarial Work to practical use. In addition to routi-ne instructions, these advanced students become skilled and experienced by assisting with the miscel- laneous correspondence of the different departments. Twen ty-two

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4 THE BLOOM BRAVEJLIFE On by the sky line, faint and vague, in that Far Country all must know, No laurel crown of fame may wait beyond the sunset's glowg But life has given me the chance to train and serve Within the fold, To meet the test-and be prepared for all the endless years may hold. Gruntland Rice