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

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THE 1938 CALL O’ PRI1 Dorsey and orator Hannah, entered the class that year. In the same year. Frank Donaldson won a position on the debating team which he maintained for four years. Our Fifth Form year was featured by the entrance of Jock Thompson, Bob Fisher, and Laurence Lucker, and by the winning of the first varsity letter in a major sport by Monty Wells, who was catcher for the baseball team. During this year Ted Carter was our representative on the Council, and James Hannah joined the debating team. It was during our junior year that we participated in many of the school's activities and placed many on the athletic teams. Burton, Donaldson, Anderson, Carter, and Hannah were consistent honor students, while Brooks and Donaldson were our Council members. The first all-junior debating team in the history of the school consisted of Anderson, Carter, Donaldson, and Hannah, who won the debater's cup. Parts in the operetta were had by Donaldson and Fisher, and Burton, Carter, Fisher. Moore, and Wyman helped make the plays a success. Donaldson, Carter, Hannah, and Anderson contributed to the Torch. Football letters were won by Jock and Sandy Thompson. Brooks, Fisher, and Wells. Members of the swimming team were Fisher, Sandy Thompson, Lucker, and Moore, while Wells. Wyman, lock and Jeep (one of his countless nicknames) Thompson, and Brooks made hockey letters. Moore and Swanson played for the golf team, and Jock and Sandy Thompson, Brooks, and Wells, who pitched every game, were baseball letter winners. Then came our senior year and an even greater participation in school activities. Our class was mediocre until our final two years, but we point with pride to the success of the plays, the concert, and the undefeated hockey and football teams. And so the Class of '38 passes on, hoping that its achievements have added a memorable chapter to the history of Blake School. 25

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THE 1938 CULL 0’ PHI) 1 9 9 % % g f t ! v § $ ? Back row: Brooks, Thompson, A., Tusler, DeLaittre, Moore, Carter, Dorsey, Wyman. Middle row: Hannah, Donaldson, Fisher, Jones, Wells, Lucker, Thompson. T. Front row: Burton, Thompson, J., Mr. Lundholm, Swanson, Anderson, Denman. CLASS HISTORY TRACING the history of the Class of '38 back into its dim past, we discover its beginning back in 1926 when Lindley Burton, Theodore Tusler, and James Wyman entered Miss McDonald's first grade class at Junior Blake. Two years later the charter members were joined by Theodore Carter and Telford Thompson. Malcolm Moore joined the class in the fourth grade. When the class assembled for its last year at the Junior School, it was found that Thomas Swanson and Sewall Jones had entered Blake. Then came the momentous jump to the Senior School where, after the class had recovered from the bewildering first days, it found added to its number John Brooks and Frank Donaldson. Many of the class were members of the formidable C'' football team of '31. Many have false ideas as to the origin of Jim Wyman's nickname of Smokey, but it was his sensational fast ball as C team pitcher that won for him this title. During the following two years many won B team letters. It was during the third form year that Frank Donaldson became our first contributor to the Torch. This same year Alan Anderson and Monty Wells joined the class. Then for two years the contributions of the class to the “A team made this aggregation invincible. Leaving the Lower School with Lindley Burton's name on the scholarship plaque, we became conscious of our importance, for as upper schoolers we helped run Blake through our council member, Frank Donaldson. Two Jameses, 24

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THE 1938 CULL O’ PAI) ALAN ROBERT ANDERSON Cum Laud© Entered Blake 1933 Iggy, Andy Harvard Now let's take things in their proper order. ONE of the few real scholars in the class, Andy has always been the envy of the trig class with his invariably perfect papers. Also a Hodgkinson prodigy, Iggy's science marks are slumping at 90. As a sophomore, Andy was considered an outstanding gridiron prospect, until an untimely injury halted his career. On the diamond, our hero was a candidate for the pitcher's berth, but his uncanny ability to deal with Hopkins urchins has lead him to the managerial side of the game. The name Iggy, it should be noted here, was the product of the maitre de francais' fertile brain, and comes from a Latin original. A debater of no mean ability, Alan has convinced even Jones that the bicameral system of legislation is the only thing. When it comes to the dance, the senior cave is never complete without our Andy demonstrating the latest innovations in the limp. During the lower school lunch period Andy's greatest problem is to find the shortest distance between Mr. Lamb's elbow and the dessert rack—without a head-on collision with the Jew en route. Andy is another who has chosen Harvard. 26