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Jack Keefe
Mel, I had to enlarge the image before answering, because I couldn't read it very well. The way I read it, the name of a student named Orvalene Scheel appeared several times for various shout-outs and honors. Quite possibly a student who moved away before our high school years. To my knowledge there was no school in Bloomington with a name that even sounded close to Orvalene.
To answer your question about how many junior high schools merged to form BJHS, there were three: Washington, Bent and Irving. But a forgotten fact is that the district's first three junior high schools were actually Lincoln, Washington and Bent. After a year or two, the Lincoln JHS was moved to Irving because Irving was a bigger facility. And Lincoln was restored to being the grade school as it was originally built. About this same time, the south wing was added to Washington. It stands between the former cafeteria building (built ca. 1950) and the original building. The time frame was late thirties and early forties.
More than you probably wanted to know, but there it is. No school named for Orvalene.
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