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

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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

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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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l i Phylis Wlos, Mr. Nehmer, Dianna Kopenheimer and Vicki Pribyla examine hand- made pots made during ce- ramics class. Art is self-expression ofthe student The ability of a student to express himself on canvas, in pottery, or any other object is a wonderful talent which is developed in Bloom art classes. Students enrolled in art classes receive an opportunity to develop only artistic talent they possess and put it to use creatively in drawing, painting, ceramics, rug weaving andjust about any creative art form imaginable. In an art class such as oil painting, the student is able to take various textures of paint and put it onto the can- vasas a creation of self-expression. This self-expression may teach the student to think clearly and wisely for himself. S... fi .if- ' , Mi,-f1,,,,,f' Janet Tondu is working a most essential machine in ceramics class, the potters wheel, which enables the student to fashion the pot into any form desired. Shirley Gereg and Beth Hall both create their own different and original masterpieces during Mr. Foster's oil painting class.