Blake School - Reflections / Call O Pan Yearbook (Hopkins, MN)

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CHARLES BERTRAM NEWTON Headmaster

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 1913 Callopan Hon rd of Ed i I o r s Editor-In-Chief Assistant Editor Art Editor Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Faculty Advisor Phillip J. Barnes 14 Norman B. Sprung 14 John VV. Gregg 14 Frederick Boutelle 13 Herbert Clifford 14 Frank Smoyer a a '' v . v .i« ®h..

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, ( all The Blake School A Brief Historv In 1907 Mr. William McK. Blake opened a little school of about a dozen boys. The little school grew and prospered to the extent of overflowing from the pleasant but small quarters at 200 Ridgewood Ave., from which it was removed in the winter of 1910-11, to a commodious house, 1803 Hennepin Ave. In 1911, a group of men whose leader was Mr. Charles C. Bovey, seeing the field for a school on a larger scale in Minneapolis, arranged to take over the Blake School and to incorporate it under a board of trustees, thus putting it upon a permanent footing. As Mr. Blake declined the additional burden and responsibility of a larger organization, Mr. C. B. Newton was called from Lawrenceville School, and undertook his new duties in the fall of 1911, Mr. Blake continuing with the school as Senior Master. The newly organized school opened with fifty-five pupils in the Senior School, and thirty in the Junior School, a total of eighty-five scholars and eight teachers six men and two women. During the winter it was decided to proceed at once to look for a site and to construct a building adequate to the evident needs of the school. A fine location was found, after several months' search, and plans for a school building by Hewitt and Brown were accepted. Work on the building began early in May 1912, and school opened late in September in the new building. The Senior School began the second year of the incorporated school with an enrollment of one ... M • «FI ' • • .H ■yj'u ——- - « -