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

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Juniors Juniors Find It's Time to The Day of Reckoning Here I am or 8:15 in rhe morning, ir's 40 degrees ourside and I'm sirring in Room 254, woiring ro srorr rhe ACT resr. So for I hove wrir- ren my name, address, ond orher personol in- formation on rhe answer sheer which looks like a child's dor-ro-dor coloring book. Now I am ready for rhe resr. I have been studying for weeks, ond this is supposed ro be an oprirude resr. Bur ir's like Tony said on Taxi: I'm sup- posed ro be raking an aprirude resr, and rhey didn't even reoch me aprirude in high school. All right, firsr question ... Go! Question 1 If Albert purchased rwo pairs of jeans and a pair of socks or rhe cost of $35.00, whor color wos rhe shirr he wos wearing! A. GREEN B. BLUE C. YELLOW D. RED You're Never Going to Believe This ... As years go by, many excuses for nor turning in homework hove been used. Some were legirimore; orhers were nor. Then there are rhose rhar fall inro a caregory by rhemselves. I ran our of diapers for my brorher, and my homework for your class wos rhe only thing My mom's new diet calls for rree bork. She couldn’r find anything close ro ir, so I encour- aged her ro substitute my homework. Ir was rhe leasr I could do for someone I love. Someone srole my car losr nighr with my school work in ir. Ir was found rwo hours lorer, bur my homework wos gone. Our hear wenr off losr losr. We needed more paper ro pur in our fireplace. Ir was a dangerous situation; we could hove frozen ro dearh, so knowing rhor you would understand, I sacrificed my homework ro save my family. We ran our of wallpaper, so we used my homework ro finish up rhe wall. You can'r believe how badly I wanted ro do a magnificent job on your ossignmenr, bur I honesrly believe rhar a good job can only be done if one is inspired. I weired all losr nighr for inspiration, bur unforrunorely ... 8 Introduction

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doesn't require a chauffeur. Occasion- ally some aspects of the social life in- terrupted classroom concerns. Classes, though, began to become somewhat more tolerable as more variety began to be added. Perhaps this year, more than any other, was the year of ups and downs—hysterical laughter one moment and tears the next. Injroduaion

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Get Their A.C.T. Together DID YOU KNOW??? Bloom High School has been known for many things. Great minds and bodies have entered and left Bloom, yet they have not found the answers to those eternal questions which plague the mind. Only now, after hours of painstaking research, have the answers come to light. They are listed below. There are 176 rooms in Bloom High School. Approximorely 4,900 corrons of milk ore disposed of each doy in rhe cofererio. There ore 29 overhead projectors in rhe AV center. They hove been used to project everything from instructions for rhe dismantling of ferol pigs to directions for assembling Freyrag's Pyramid. From 10:45 until 1:10, rhe srudenr body con consume 432 cheeseburgers. 4,135,518 sheers of paper ore used each month in rhe Materials Production Center. Dumped in one place, rhor could moke o heck of o mess. There is o book in rhe library titled Famous Living Americans. Included in its contents is rhe name of Alex- ander Graham Bell. Every doy approximately 576 slices of pizzo ore eoren in rhe cofererio. If you walked up every stair in Bloom and rhen turned around ond walked bock down them oil, you would hove covered 1376 stairs. There ore seven sets of encyclope- dias or Bloom. Eoch contains twenty volumes. Within Bloom's Library there ore 24,296 volumes. If you wont to Imow how mony pages or words that comes ro, you con do rhe computa- tion on your own. Bloom students con ear about one thousand bogs of french fries o doy. Thor's 182,000 bogs a year, folios. Now that's some opperire! hrrockjcrion 9