SICA Conference

[Mark Padgett]

Here's some comments from someone who graduated from one of these schools (Bloom) in 1965. First of all, the conference's current website sucks. Lots of the school information is incomplete, and some of the links take you to the site of a totally different conference.

OK, now for some history. When I attended Bloom (back before dirt was invented), we were in the South Suburban Conference with Joliet, Thornton, Argo, Kankakee, etc. The newer schools made up different conferences. We had a total of eight. All the schools in the conference were ethnically diverse and it really wasn't a big deal to any of us. I left the Chicago area in 1969 after college so I don't really know what it's like around there now.

One comment in the story implied that one of the main reasons given for the new split being travel time is not valid because that reason hasn't been a factor in the past. Maybe that person should look at a gas pump these days.