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

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,W Myrtle Spahn G. Alvin Wilson Viola Du Frain Elizabeth Hanawalt Lillian Biester Beatrice Parrish Cecil M. Sarif Lula M. Veazey ommercia .Teparfmenf The commercial department offers four years of study to the interested student. In his first year, a general course in business training and in retail selling prepares him for what is to follow. The intricacies of bookkeeping in his second year prove to him the necessity of neatness and accuracy. In the junior and senior years, the really advanced course of the stenographer-that of raking and transcribing of shorthand notes, is studied. Long periods of diligent prac- tice and study find their reward in the carrying of small cards inscribed with the Various rates of speed attained. A class recently inaugurated is the Bloom Office Practice Class where the students learn to do by doing. They aid the various departments of school in the typing of tests, correspondence, and other required material. Commercial students of Bloom, upon graduation, are fitted for a position even if they have no further training. Myrtle Spahn: Commercial fheadj, Junior Class Faculty chairmang Junior Etiquette Club adviser. G. Alvin Wilson: School accountant, School activity treasurer. - Viola Du Frain: Bookstore Managerg Senior Shorthand Club sponsor. Elizabeth Hanawalt: Commercial instructor. Beatrice Parrish: Bloom Musicale co-sponsor. Lillian Biester: Shorthand Club adviser. Cecil M. Sarff: Heavyweight football and basketball coach, 'B' Club sponsor. Lula M. Veazey: Girls' sports coach, G. A. A. sponsor. I9

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W. P. Dyer Hadwin W. ann Harry E. Peterson William Manske Rinaldo Iguelzi Mary Erma Ash Flora M. Bliss Adele Mernitz -a Mcafionaf eparfmezzf It is in the shop and drawing department that theory is taught by practical experi- ence. A student gains the fundamentals of drafting and archiecture in the drawing rooms. He is taught to visualize the object and portray it on paper as a professional draftsman might. In pattern-making, tin-shop, moulding, steel-lathe, wood-lathe, and planing, of which the shop-work consists, the student gains the knowledge of a machinist, carpenter, moulder, pattern-maker, and tinner. This taste of actual experience in various jobs offered in the industrial world aids the student in determining his career. W. P. Dyer: Manual Training Qheadj, Dean of Boys, Assistant Principal. Hadwin W. McCann: Heavyweight football, lightweight basketball, baseball coach. Harry E. Peterson: Angler's Club director. William Manske: Aviation Club instructor. , Mary Erma Ash: Pen and Palette Club sponsor, Student Affairs Board Art chairman. Flora M. Bliss: CMusic discontinued at Bloom., Adele Mernitz: Thespian Troupe No. 184 sponsor, Three one-act plays and Senior Class Play director. I8

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Our gacuffy Through fogs of doubt and wondering When we were lost and lone, The Faculty held out a hand. And took us for their own. They led us on and on and on To where the light shone through, They gave our hearts that needed hope The New Era nigher grew. They led us on to better things, They helped our minds to grow, They shaped our thoughts in channels wide just where thoughts ought to go. They trained us in so many things, That we found interests wide, They helped along our faltering steps, Until we caught our stride. When we are old and gone from Bloom And scattered wide and far, When we have reached success at last, Attained our shining star, When we a picture grand have made A master-piece created, Or thrilled the nation with a speech, Our teachers, how elated! We give to them the credit great Our thanks to them redoundg They really earned it all you know Their efforts now are crowned. -Alvirm Eblen