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

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OUR PRINCIPHL DR. HILDEGARDE M. ROMBERG

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Dr. Romberg speaks at the Football Banquet. To The Graduates of 1955 It is a happy circumstance that the yearbook to which I make my first contribution has as its theme The Student Bodyf, It is the object of the endeavors of the faculty and principal, in fact, the main reason for our being at Bowen High School. Moreover the theme is an appropriate one for the educational program in general. Simply expressed, education is but the interaction of students with the curriculum or activities provided for their complete social, moral, emotional, and intellectual development. With an additional vital factor, the teachers, the three constitute the heart of any school. Together they inject life and all its adventures into what otherwise would be a pile of bricks, stone, and mortar. Replete with pictures, the pages which follow unfold a comprehensive, modern, functional program 4. Page Six of regular and extra-class activities in operation. The former comprise the basic, prescribed subjects, while the latter are selective, carry no credit, and permit exploitation of individual interests. For every student, whether he has an interest in or a bent for music, athletics, science, or dramatics, there is a regular or extra-class activity to welcome his participation. Largely responsible for the successful program of activities is the cooperation of students, parents, busi- ness and industrial leaders, and faculty. The wholesome atmosphere is productive of superior educational achievement and affords a wellspring of opportunities for further progress. To have a part in this thriving, pulsating community of youth is indeed a privilege and honor of which, it is my earnest hope, the years ahead will prove me worthy.

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To the Classes of 195 : This book is your memento of the happy and active years you have spent at Bowen. Its pages, in the the years to come, will awaken in your memory the amusing incidents, the interesting events, the formal education to which you subscribed, and the close association you had with your fellow students and teachers. In the belief that in our society the schools con- tribute in no small measure to the total development Page High! MR. ELI J. GOLDBERG Assisfanl Principal of the person, it is our trust that you, too, have ref ceived an investment in ideals, hopes, and thoughts concerning the welfare of others, inspirations, apprecia- tions, and the wonders and mysteries of the earth. That has been our taskg you have been the instrument through which it has been unfolded. May you, through- out your wallcs in life, transmit to the generation to come an increased devotion to those fine and worthy principles that are now yours. ff