Bloomington High School - Aepix Yearbook (Bloomington, IL)

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To All Who Have Attended Bloomington High School, We Proudly Dedicate This Book Homes, churches, friends, community, and schools play significant roles in shaping the destiny of future citizens. Schools, especially, are influential in building citi- zens. As education has taken on greater importance, enroll- ment in schools has increased. Through the past 100 years, more than 9,000 future citizens have been graduated from our school. The lives of these citizens, as Well as the lives of many others who spent a lesser part of their school days in our high school, have benefitted from the excellent op- portunities offered. And so, to all those Who have been in- fluenced by Bloomington High School, we proudly dedicate this book.

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Dramafics The first full-time teacher of speech and dramatics was employed in 1941. Earlier, plays were directed by non-teachers after school. From 1897 to 1957, damatics have been on an upgrade, climaxing in 1957 with the production of the well known Broadway success, Harvey. In recent years, two or- ganizations, Dramatic club and Thespians, have promoted dramatic productions. Homecoming Homecoming originated with a football game in the fall of 1922. Through the years other events became part of the celebration. In 1956, a parade, football game, and a dance highlighted homecoming. In 1890, the school colors, purple and gold, were chosen in trib- ute to a classmate who had drowned the previous summer. The classmate's favorite flower was the purple and gold pansy. 9

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