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

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THE ( ALL O' IMX OF l»:» I “His tanners at the whist club said That he was faultless in his dealing. John pjiIIii|» lljirrison Hurra EntereH Blake 1922 Vale Johnny was one of the pioneers of the class of ’34 who started down in the Junior school with Miss McDonald. His popularity was immediately won when he stated that his father had been the captain of the Minnesota football team. He seemed to be following in the footsteps of his father for he soon established himself as the fastest runner in the class, and one of the best soccer players. When the class “graduated from the Junior school and were for the first time learning the fundamentals of baseball and football. John kept all in awe with his curves in baseball and his sweeping end runs in football. Another field of athletic prowess soon attracted him at the Minneapolis club with the swimming team. Here, watching Teddy Moles and later Figs Atkinson at the breast-stroke, he learned many good pointers. Perhaps it was on this account that at the start of his junior year he was rated as about the best breast-stroker in the Twin Cities. He did so well that he was elected captain for the season of 1933 and 1934. Swimming was not. however, his only specialty, for he was the captain of the tennis team of 1933 and he played end on the football team. Johnny was noted for other things in school life than athletics, and if you wish to learn the correct method of playing bridge, just call Harra up, and he will gladly help you out—one dollar an hour. Besides these achievements. John was in the Union and was Business Manager of the Publications. Here he showed his shrewdness also, for no one but himself was able to read the books. Johnny is planning to grace old Eli with his presence next year. Look after Humphreyt John. Page Twenty

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Till: CALL O PA. OF l»:i I O, flesh, flesh, how thou art flshifled.' 4'lnrk lt ni lol|»li Fletohor Fletch Entered Blake 1928 Dart moii tli It is our probably erroneous opinion that Fletch has won more widespread attention as a high school athlete than any other Blake performer. When he went east to swim in Philadelphia, the papers were full of the “Young Lochinvar” who had “come out of the west.” Mere in his own state he so outdistanced his opponents in the back stroke that even when he rammed the palings of the Gustavus pool with his conk and threatened to spread Fletcher brains in various and sundry portions among the spectators, he had time to recover, part his hair, and float to victory. Randolph shares with Johnny Harrison the distinct honor of having l een captain of two Blake teams, each leading the swimming and tennis teams in alternate seasons. Fletch has an assortment of trick ties and collars that are amazing to behold, but it is just this flair for the ultra as well as his undeniable skill in dancing that have made him a blonde menace among the girls. Anyway, as soon as he can convince Mr. Foss that he knows exactly where the Euboeans lived, and why they settled at Cumae. Clark will depart for Dartmouth, w hich is awaiting such a sw immer with open arms. Page Nineteen

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TIIK 4 AM. 4» I'AX OF l»:tl Younti fellows will be young fellows. TllOlllilS ll kJM OII Humphrey Tom Entered Blake 1931 Yale When the smoke had cleared away and the wreckage had been swept out after Monday, September 14, 1931, somebody, in passing a dark corner, caught sight of a faint rustle in the shadows accompanied by a bewildered bleat. The sound, strongly reminiscent of the excited huffle of a snail in danger, was found to emanate from a rather awed and somewhat disillusioned southern lad. fresh from the heat-blistered oil fields of Oklahoma, who had been trampled down and thrust aside in the first barbaric rush of those “damn Yankees. ' Since that first terrifying day in the north woods, however, Tom Humphrey, “Gable to his friends and intimates, has adapted himself remarkably to the native customs of the Gopher State, although he still quails at the thought of venturing alone behind the field house for fear of meeting a wandering scalping party. Athletically, he has been prominent as a fancy diver, and scholastically, a shining example of Cleve's pedagogical ability. Outside of an annoying habit of carrying a photograph of his beloved above his heart, and a fatal inclination to pursue itinerant torch-singers, his amours have been completely above board. A prospective Yale man. he will go down in history as the first ever to find the gall to wear a double-breasted vest to Blake. Page Twenty-one