Bloomington High School - Bear Yearbook (Bloomington, MN)

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fkwew icL The class of 1961 is unique in Bloomington High School’s history. We are the first of the only two classes that will ever spend four years of high school in our new building. As freshmen we entered a new senior high school building where we helped create new traditions for Bloomington High. At that time we entered a conference of well established and powerful athletic teams. Bloomington's relatively inexperienced teams were no match for the other Lake Conference teams. In four years we have risen to the top in football and have improved sufficiently in other sports to now be considered a formidable opponent in any contest. Our class has witnessed many changes and has achieved high levels of success in countless other ways during the past four years. Academically Bloomington High School has been recognized by being accepted as a member of the North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. Our dramatic department has produced several superior plays. We have won state honors in music and speech activities. Members of the science club have won top prizes in both local and state contests. Throughout the years our class has played a big part in this development and has enthusiastically supported all of these activities. Conveying the relationship of the past three years to this, our fourth and final year, and providing a lasting record of the events and achievements of our class will be the theme and purpose of the 1961 Bear.

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• • • Mr. and Mrs. Foss will take a tour by bus of Germany, Sweden, France, and many other F.uro tean countries before returning home. Mrs. Foss has many hobbies, including a coin collection, stamp collection, painting, color photography, and knitting. We sometimes suspect that Mrs. Foss must be one of twins or triplets, for we seem to find her busy all over the school. On a typical day one will find her at her desk receiving students and parents who are waiting to see Mr. Hanson or Mr. Christianson, or will find her busily counting the receipts of the previous night's game and preparing the daily bank deposit. She can be seen in the faculty lounge at noon or during her afternoon break working on-her knitting, at which she is an expert. She will be found at the District ticket office selling tickets for the tournament, or she may be at the switchboard offering friendly advice to the o| erator. A woman of abundant energy, she has countless friends, and her wonderful sense of humor and love for fun often prompts her to help other me miters of the office staff with one of the many famous, impromptu ftarties. held for any reason at all. To this wonderful, versatile, friendly woman, we dedicate the 1961 Bear. Ua$. WoMFOSS . . . |M rhaps the most versatile employee of the Bloomington School System, senes as secretary to our principal. Mr. Hanson, ami as general office supervisor at Bloomington Senior High School. Mrs. Foss is loved by all for Ikt good humor and fumous smile, and is always ready to lend a helping hand to anyone in need. Mrs. Foss has two daughters, who are both graduates of Bloomington High School. Meredith, who graduated in 1957, is now attending Augsburg College, and Carol, who graduated in 1959. is employed by the Northwestern National l.ife Insurance Com-ftany. Mrs. Foss and her husband. Peter, own a thirty-two foot Chris-Craft Cruiser which they keep on the Mississippi River. Last summer they took a two week vacation cruise- down the river to Dubuque. Iowa. This year however, they are planning a more exciting vacation. On June 24th they will leave for a seven week vacation abroad. On the way over they will stop at the home of Kris Sigurdardoltir. former A.F.S. student, in Iceland. They will then fly on to Rissa. (a small town near Trondheim) Norway for a reunion with Mr. Foss’s mother, brother, and sister, who he hasn’t seen in thirty-four years. Mr. Foss was born in Norway, and came to the United Stall's when he was eighteen years old. Page 4