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General Category => Hackensack Discussion => Topic started by: BLeafe on September 27, 2015, 12:42:57 PM
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This happened yesterday:
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http://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-guest-writers/media-bridge-ceremony-to-honor-hackensack-educator-1.1419248
It a fitting tribute to Bloom, who served in the Hackensack school district for nearly four decades in various capacities and led the high school through a major modernization and expansion project in the mid-Sixties. He served as principal during a period of tremendous enrollment growth and through the tumultuous years of social change in America. And through it all, he remained at heart an educator deeply concerned with the welfare of children.
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The program honoring Harold Bloom on Saturday was well planned and carried out. The audience was full of family, friends, teachers and graduates of HHS. Walter Fields wrote a tribute to Mr. Bloom which was published in the Record and can be read at this website.
http://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-guest-writers/media-bridge-ceremony-to-honor-hackensack-educator-1.1419248
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Congratulations to Mr. Bloom! It is somewhat sad to see him now in a wheelchair, but I’m also happy to know that he had such a long and distinguished career at HHS.
I remember Mr. Bloom as one of the history faculty at HHS during the mid-1950s. He had a great sense of humor, and was one of the more popular teachers at that time. I was also in his homeroom class during my junior year. He had a remarkable facility to stimulate students to think critically and apply lessons learned from the past to current issues. One of the lessons I learned from him was to always consider both sides of an issue very carefully before drawing any conclusions.
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I'm guessing Bloom Street is named either for him, or his family?
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Possibly, but I see references to Bloom Street as far back as 1928 in the Historic Meeting Meetings.
http://www.ecode360.com/documents/pub/HA0454/Minutes/?