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

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Tin: 4'ALL O- I AX OF IO.T I “This bold bad man. Frank Paul Leslie Lessel Entered Blake 1926 Princeton Frank seems to have sneaked into the building along with Kenyon, Cullen, and party hack in Papa W ilson's regime, 4ml couldn't find an exit until it was too late. So he barged along with the rest of us through the confusing labyrinth of lower forms, doing the right thing at the right time as a general rule, and doing the wrong thing only often enough to keep in touch with the authorities. A staunch supporter of minor sports, he has been a faithful member of the basket hall team, an organization which has at least carried on the tradition of the game, and a constant menace to a cut-hall server on the tennis courts. I'liis year he skillfully handled the business end of the toughest and most successful football season in Blake history, bringing the team out money ahead. For six or seven years he has sung in the choir. An unfortunate failure to see eye to eye with Masters Foss and Bosanko on some of the fundamental principles of the Latin and French languages endangered his standing for a while, but “Muscles has pulled through with room to spare, and is headed for Princeton, college of the fat king. Page Twenty-five

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Tin: CALL O I'.W OF n»:t i The curtain had fallen on the last art of The Mikado and the gay and fashionable audience of first-nighters had left the vast reaches of the Woman's Club empty save for “Yon” the Scandinavian janitor, who was already busily engaged in collecting chewed programs and surreptitious bits of First Form gum. But wait—a low moan and a suspicious cloud of blue vapor announce the presence of something else. Presently a rather stooping form surmounted by an undersized brown derby slinks across the stage accompanied by two other shadows. It is Walt Kenyon leading his henchmen, Faegre and Winston, in the dire task of removing the scenery. Until 2 A. M. the unsung hero with his assistants pushes and pulls chairs, tables, pianos, and sets in the none too spacious confines of the “ITho bound the holiday-rejoicing spirit down To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead woody Walter KpiiIoii Kenyon Malt Kntere l Make 1926 North western back stage territory. At last the begrimed and weary group staggers homeward. Yet this ominous overture does not imply that Mr. Kenyon, property manager extraordinary, is devoted entirely to pursuits building the body of a Sandow. His esthetic interests have led him to study deeply the art of crooning, and to attack savagely all Philistines who persist in claiming that Vallce is better than Bing. For two years Walt has acted as head waiter for first the Lower and then the Upper School, and his strained expression would convince even the most critical that his is a task of the harshest requirements. Reserve center for the foot-hall team and reserve goalie in hockey, Wall is now, shades of Rogers Hornsby, playing-manager or playing manager of the tennis team. Poge Twenty-jour

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THE ( AM O r OF l».‘M Jiggs is one of those disillusioned few who, having joined up just in time to Hunk Miss McDonald’s first test in paper doll cutting, finds it diflicult to contemplate life without Blake. The second of a line of three McCanns, the only clothes he has ever had to furnish himself were his silken breeches for the role of page to the court of King Arthur in the prep year, his everyday attire being a rather faded continuation of Tommy's bizarre taste in wearing apparel. Me started to carry out the family debating tradition, but somehow allowed himself to become enmeshed in the managerial duties of the tank team, in which “Never morning u ore To evening, but some heart did break. John Mooro IH »im w Entered Blake 1922 Yale position he successfully directed the 5,789 meets of the 1934 season. As a waiter in the lower school lunch, he has managed to juggle gravy bowls, milk pitchers, and meat platters with a maximum of breakage, and has feared only that some day an elusive chocolate pudding will take advantage of the amplitude of Mr. Hodg-kinson's No. 18 collar. Mac is at present dividing his time between Newton Avenue and the tennis courts, where, if the reports are accurate, he is becoming astonishingly proficient. Next year he is planning to swell the Irish enrollment of Yale. I’ape T wenty six