James Harvey Bowen High School - Bowenite Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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CCDNTENTS ADMINISTRATION S E N I O I2 S ACTIVITIES FE AT LI I2 E S B I2 A N C I-I

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T B I-I Q E W E IXIW I9 f T3 E6 PRESENTED BY THE SENIOR CLASSES SOUTH Cl-HCAGO NUMBER BQWEN I-IIGI-I SCI-ICDCDI. Q 1-I 1 Q A G 0

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FCDREWORD Marsh lands were the foundation of a great in- dustrial center and sacrificial labor the basis of education in our Calumet region, the home of Bowen High. One hundred years have elapsed since the first settlers founded on swamps what we now know as prosperous South Chicago. Not many of the old timers remain, but every living thing about breathes of their hardships so many years ago. Our present Bowen building, erected in I9II to replace the old South Chicago school, it itself a landmarlc of twenty-five years' standing, significant of the high educational ideals held by those who preceded us. In recognition of our community's centennial anni- versary and our school's quarter-century of long- evity, we, the classes of I936 gratefully dedicate our BOWENITE to the pioneers who, by willingness and perseverance, erected a city within a city and gave us the opportunity of higher education through the years.