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

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usiness, training for future vocations Mary Devine, an ISU student teacher works with individual tapes on the multi-channel shorthand laboratory in Mrs. Marin's lirst hour class. More and more, it is becoming increasingly important to learn how to operate machines. Shirley Demkowicz works on a Monroe calcu- lator in Mrs. Rezabek's oliice machines class. Business courses at Bloom offer valuable skills and training for students that can be used in their future vo- cations. All students who choose business courses to major in during their high school years will find that they will be able to use the knowledge gained in such courses as typing, shorthand, office machines and busi- ness law. Students gain training and skills through the use of the iinest equipment available to high school students. In courses like office machines, a wide variety of different machines are presented for the student to learn to operate. Speed and accuracy are the key words in first year typing. Students in Mr. James Athertonls class are busy practicing on their assignments during their typing class. 20 l

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I A 'I1l':g-virpwu gb -ian malaga :ewan V I Q 7 -is-212 'Q 1' qi? The French calendar seems to interest French II students Carol Polak and Tom Herman after a lesson in writing the French months of the year in Mrs. Paulsen's eighth period class. Jeanne Prokop and Sally Conterato were two of a group of students that visited and studied in Italy during the summer. They are telling their classmates, in Mrs. Cull's Italian Ill class, their many adventures. 'ini Q ' Mrs. Lorraine Heard helps French IV students Sebastian Palmigiani, Betty Ludwig and Cindy Husarik prepare for an explicalion de texte that they are assigned to do during French class.

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Industrial ed. gives insight to modern industr Industrial education is a part of the Bloom curriculum which gives the student an opportunity to explore many areas of industrial endeavor. Industrial education gives insight to the various methods and materials of modern day industry. Students enrolled in these courses are re- warded with an excellent chance to develop the skills needed for improvement of our industries, and use them to become skilled in a trade. Mr. Doner teaches Danny Bolton how to work a machine designed to cut and shape difTerent sheets of metal. In this shop class, the students learn to work only with metal and the machines used on different metals. Students enrolled in machine shop are confronted with many different types of machines which they can learn to operate. Vito Stonis and Paul Rojar learn the intricacies of operating a lathe during a shop class. Tom Montgomery wears special eye protecting glasses while welding a metal with oxygen-acetyline gas. Mr. Wesley Lind supervises Gerald Lofton in the delicate job of con- structing a radio receiver during an electronics class. 21