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

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THE CALL 09 PAN 0F 1933 Norman Leslie N ewhall, Jr. iiNoirm,, i7 have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise? Council, 32, 933 Union, ,32, ,33 Vice President, Senior class Debating Team, 33 Dramatics, ,31, ,32 Business Manager, Dramatics, ,33 Publications Board, 732, ,33 School Editor, ,33 Publications prize, 31 Winner Williams Theme Contest, ,33 Golf Team, ,32, ,33 Manager Hockey Team, '31, ,32 Cum Laude Entered Blake 1922 Williams Newhall was one of the hapless urchins who were herded into the little red brick schoolhouse at 22nd and Colfax when they were too young to oHer physical re- sistance. y Philosoiphieally, he became resigned to his fate and deluded teachers for twelve years by pursing his lips and scribbling three words to a line with all the appear- ances of i n t e n s e concentration. This, coupled with a thoroughly hypocritical attitude of respect and a talent for look- ing intelligent while unconscious, won him high honors; In later years he found more difficulty in restraining his mirth and often had fits of coughing in chem- istry classes. Undoubtedly the most voracious trench- erman at the Senior table, Norm is re- markable for his likeness to a goat, in his ability to absorb anything and everything that comes within his boarding-house reach. Even the Friday fish-orgies are downed in such quantities as to produce a state of coma lasting until the daily battle with Old Man Par. As the genius of the golf team, Norm was a continual menace to the fat men with horn-rimmed spectacles who barged around the Country Club. Williams may consider itself lucky in getting the only member of the human race who is amen- able to argument and never hesitated to acknowledge that he was wrong. Page Twenty-five

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THE CALL 09 PAN 0F 1933, Fishface, without whom this here now Call 02 Pan could never have been printed, has been pulling down honor grades ever since he joined us in the first form. He is counted upon to raise the class average three or four points every month, and keep us within shouting dis- tance of the first form in scholarship. We led the whole school the first month of the year, before Neil and the other fifteen in the class found out what the Senior room is for. Last year, having been elected Editor- in-Chief 0f the Publications While only a Junior, he put out the Torch and Call 0', Pan practically single-handed. This year Page Twenty-four N eil Gardner Melone ffFishfacE, , 211771036 little body lodgid a i mighty mind? Editor-in-Chief, Publications, 32, ,33 Council, ,30, 932, ,33 Union, 32, 933 Football Manager, 332 Debating team, 733 Dramatics, ,30, ,31, ,32 Golf team, 32, 33 Golf Captain, ,33 Science Club, 30, 31, ,32, 733 President Science Club, ,32 Cum Laude Valedictorian Entered Blake 1926 Harvard he is still Editor-in-Chief, but only laughs affably when Dillon and Newhall remind him that the Torch goes to press on the next day. He has represented our class on the Council three of the four years in which we have been entitled to representation, a fact which testifies to the trust his class- mates place in him. In dramatics he had female parts for two years, and last year impersonated an august college Senior, with his characteristic mannerisms and antics. He ought to make quite a dent in Harvard, and the East in general next year, and certainly will leave a gap in Blake.

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THE CALL 09 PAN 0F 1933 For these four long years, so help us, the Dean has been blissfully slumbering through his classes, displaying enough of the Rosenberry consciousness at in- tervals to give him his diploma at the appointed time. As Coeur d,Aleneis first gift to Blake, he has manfully spent hours defending his native hinterlands from the sneering remarks of the local metropolitan fix- tures. Between trips to town to see the bright lights with the Southern Sage, the Dean may he found at Matfs in Hopkins, asleep in the Senior room, or next to the radio, blearing his eyes over Galsworthy. Our faith Was shaken when he tried to make an impression with Miss Donald- son by borrowing eight books from the Page T wenty-six Howard J ames Rosenberry CiMute9! gDeeper than did ever plummet soun Pll drown my book? Union, ,33 Football Team, ,31, 32 Science Club, ,32 Entered Blake 1930 Stanford library one day because of the suggestive titles, only to discard them after giving them a cursory glance. He carries on a furtive, and as it is reported, a futile correspondence with the belles he meets on the train en route from the West. According to all reports from Bleak House, his lovesick lapses often give rise to extreme spells of absent-mindedness, t0 the huge enjoy- ment of Bradley and the Cub. It is rumored that when a product of Miss Hallas School was due to put in an ap- pearance in Minneapolis, Mute, not knowing of the time of her arrival, went to meet every train for a whole day without seeing her. But that is life.