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

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THE 1936 CALL O' PAN MAC entered Blake last year after spending several winters at the Taft school. With George Spencer's assistance he has successfully upheld the Seniors dignity at the dormitories. In addition he has carried on one or two courtships in town from his distant retreat on the hill-top—this in itself is a miraculous feat. In last year's school poll he was voted second only to Miller as the most handsome student in school. Despite his huge size, Mac was the fastest man on the football squad and used his speed to good advantage in hockey and tennis. Many will testify as to the power Mac wields with the paddle. After every vacation he returns to school with hair-raising stories of Duluth to awe his classmates. Probably his greatest art is to tip milk pitchers, to slide saltcellars at Jones, and to put spoons in Bovey’s coat pocket at lunch without attracting the attention of Hizzoner, Mr. Alder. Mac has decided to enter Wisconsin University next fall, following his father's footsteps. 29

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THE 1936 CALL O' PAN IN the third form Inky joined the class with the reputation that he had created more destruction and raised more havoc in the Kenwood district than any other one boy. However, Wink has lost his mischievous nature and is regarded as one of the more dignified members of the Senior Class. To be sure it was rather disconcerting one day last winter to find that Inky had locked, from the inside, the door of the Senior lavatory, where the seventh formers keep their coats, and had then jumped nimbly out the window. Ink has consistently maintained a high standard of scholarship while at Blake despite taking five subjects last year. Winning letters in football and swimming for two years, and taking part in the plays and operettas during his Junior and Senior years has kept Ralph quite busy. In addition Ink occasionally wrote an article for the Torch'' (yes, we said occasionally). With his disarming smile and quick wit he never failed to amuse his hearers when he spoke in chapel. Ralph will join the large delegation of Blakesters trooping to Amherst next fall. 28

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THE 1936 CALL O' PAN Entered Blake 1924 “Bo Yale Thus he bore without abuse the grand old name of gentleman.” BRUCE is another who started in the first grade and has stayed with the class of '36 to graduation. Without doubt the most thorough and complete gentleman in the Senior class, Bo has exerted an immeasurable influence of dignity over his more frivolous classmates. However, that calm may be easily broken by starting an argument on Roosevelt. Bruce surpasses even such conservatives as Fahr and West in his scathing attacks on the present Democratic President. It is also not uncommon to hear in the midst of down-town traffic or during a lull at some dance, Bruce's bellowing voice screaming the Yale Bull-dog song. Bo excels in another field also. Covering all the important football games throughout the country, he picks up a tidy sum placing wagers at school and in the down-town pool-rooms. Bruce has been most faithful in attending football practice, and he won his letter in hockey and two in golf. In addition he handled the finances of the Plays and Operetta this year in a most efficient manner. Following his brother's footsteps, Bruce will enter Yale. 30