Bloomington High School - Bear Yearbook (Bloomington, MN)

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BEYOND CAPAOTV Buses after fifth and sixth hours were filled each day. as well as the students’ parking lot. Clubs and organizations found that memberships had vastly increased from that of last year. All was not lost in the situation, however. With the increased number of students from which to choose, positions were filled with persons having the greatest talent and ambition. There was never any lack of volunteers for anything. In fact, with hallways, classrooms, buses, and the school in general overrun with people, the only time one found peaceful quiet anywhere was late in the afternoon, when all the buses had left. Nothing could surpass the ultimate pleasure of walking down a deserted, darkened hallway—completely alone.

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BLOOMINGTON UIGU SCHOOL FILLED With an over-capacity crowd of approximately twenty-one hundred students, Bloomington High School practically burst at the seams this year. Designed for only about eighteen hundred people, the school's crowded conditions created prob'oms for students, faculty, and administrators alike. Administrators had the initial problem of crowded classrooms and jammed hallways. Once faculty dining areas ond lounges were meta-morphasized to provide additional space for study, ond the band and chorus rooms were designated as classrooms, the teachers’ troubles began. Many of Bloomington's faculty members had no classrooms of their own and were seen passing from room to room as the hours changed. Problems for the students came in many forms. Gomes were filled to capacity all too often, especially during basketball season. The Ice Center could not accommodate the many students who showed up at hockey gomes, thus disappointing all but the earliest arrivals. When the Minneapolis Symphony chose to present a concert to our students they never dreamed that they would play to a capacity crowd twice. Again all but the earliest were turned away. Pepfests found the gymnasium echoing with the sound of thousands of voices, and only during nice fall weather was there not an abundance of broken ear drums.

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Hubert G. Olson, Superintendent of Schools. has now been with the Bloomington school system for twenty years. In this time he has watched Bloomington grow from a township with one school to the fourth largest city in the state with twenty schools. As the number of schools increases, so do the duties of Mr. Olson and his three assistants. P. Arthur Hoblit is now in his third year as Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education, In 1951 Mr. Hoblit bccamo principal of BHS and remained so until I960, when he was appointed to his presont position. Mr. Hoblit taught at Bloomington in 1938 before transferring to Ei-celsior and Stillwater where he was junior high principal. COMMUNITY CO-C)RD[ J J££ gy ■•a xi 14id mtfWffWPHWOT aj.jjjijijjjj.. Bloomington's school board is composed of si citiiens elected by the community. They are: Dr. Harley Racer, Mr. William Carlson. Mr. Robert Peterson. Mr. Clifford Bowman. Mrs. Edith Mein-ecko. Mr. Luther Ford, and Mr. Hubtrt Olson. Mr. Knutson and Mr. Olson sit in on meetings, but havo no vote in board matters. Much of the success of Bloomington's education system is due to the efforts of citirons like the school board members.