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

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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 ——- - « -

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CHARLES BERTRAM NEWTON Headmaster

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 -jaaa lit CalVpff n hundred and ten. The Junior School remained in town, at 1803 Hennepin Ave., with twenty-six pupils, making a total off one hundred and thirty-six. The teaching force was enlarged to ten men beside the Head Master, and three women at the Junior Department. This is the story of the Blake School to date—a remarkable story of growth and of splendid backing by the community. The beautiful forty acre tract of land on which it stands and the building combining good taste and good sense in every feature, are an endowment of which any school might be proud. During the Summer of 1913 the building is to be enlarged so as to afford larger facilities for play and exercise. Better even than grounds and building are the high ideals of the trustees and of all connected with the school. As a country day school it affords the best surroundings for boys to grow in, and as a semi-public institution one without any proprietary features it is untrammelled in the pursuit of its ideals simplicity, thoroughness, honor, and loyalty. m JS33L A - - A• r flvCVk A • ( Jk if vV ■! ' T c J , »iT i1 r 'S, . t. .