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

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Roswell C. Puckett Principal With this year, Mr. Puckett, who closes the fourth term of his administration, has continued to carry out the policies introduced when he Hrst entered new Bloom: the democratic ideals of social education and larger student participation in school activities, which lay the foundation for future citizenship.

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l N 1 H' ADMR Q IQMMITTT RICHARDS l E. FENNEMAN Prcsidvul , i DANA ELUOT ROBERT A. ENGELHARDT Board of Education The 1937 Board of Education remains intact with the exception of one member. Mr. R. A. Engelhardt was chosen to fill the vacancy occasioned by Mr. L. E. Yentzer's resignation. This group faces two important problems: that of keeping up the high standards of Bloom and of meeting the serious financial situation that threatens our schools.

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Miss Ora Theobald Dean of Girls Corridors alive with the hurried good-byes of hundreds of pupils eagerly making their exits from the activities of another day at school as Miss Theobald turns the key on lock of 219, the scene of multifold activities. Was it a score of girls who came to the Dean for counsel about personal problems? Or committee meetings with members of the Girls' League to plan for the activities of Bloom's girls? Or the reception of enthusiastic members of some club who just must have their petition brought up at the next meeting of the Student Affairs Board? Perhaps a conference with the P.T.A. Board? Or the tiniest member of her English 1A classes seeking a solution for the queer myths of the ancients? Even a casual observer of the ever-changing scenes in Room 219 is led to wonder how Miss Theobald so competently meets the challenge of successive days. In the puz- zled moments, when decisions are not easy, does she get a fresh inspiration to carry on from the lovely pictures which adorn her ofiice or the pages of favorite books near at hand? Mr. W. P. Dyer Assislanf Prirzripal Mr. William P. Dyer has been assistant principal for several years, and by his kindly sympathy and genial smile has won many friends among faculty and students. While not officially dean of boys, he has performed the duties of that office by bringing about closer co-operation between the school and the home. Besides his work as assistant principal he is head of Industrial Arts, and has developed one of the best departments in this section of the state. X