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

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n i n e t e e n f 7'HE chief hobbies and interests of Mr. Westmark lie almost completely at Blake. With the exception of his manual training activities, most students have little conception of the amount of work Mr. Westmark puts in to help the Dramatic Association with lighting and staging; the Art Department in cutting stencils and printing their many posters: the hockey team in the construction of its two warming houses; and. last but not least, Blake School itself in repairing clocks, drinking fountains, broken chairs, etc. In addition to his Senior Blake activities. Mr. Westmark visits the Junior School twice a week to teach manual training to the lads there. HENRY ARTHUR WESTMARK Manual Training University of Minnesota. Stout Institute PRESCOTT COYLE CLEVELAND English B.S.. Union College Secretary of Faculty MR. CLEVELAND has served the school in many ways. In the fall and spring he gives instruction to all boys interested in tennis and has coached many outstanding tennis teams in recent years. However, this work represents only a small part of Mr. Cleveland's activities. Either the Junior or Senior Class often choose him for advisor. As head of the English Department, he is also advisor to the Publications Board. His is the hard job of checking over finances and subject material of the TORCH and CALL O' PAN. During the winter Mr. Cleveland helps Mr. Bittinger with the coaching of the debate team. Following his secretarial trait. Mr. Cleveland is secretary of the faculty and faculty treasurer of the Athletic Association as well. With all these activities, our English professor might be called the Advisor-at-large of Blake. 13

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NOAH SYLVESTER FOSS Latin B.A.. Dartmouth College Senior Master of Upper School Assistant Headmaster ALMOST every Blake boy has had the opportunity of studying Latin under our Assistant Headmaster. Mr. Foss; and all will tell you of the painstaking care with which he manages his classes. Certainly the excellent record of his students in the College Board examinations is ample proof of their thorough training in Latin under his tutelage. In the Union this year he has faithfully served with Mr. Bryan as faculty advisor. Outside of school. Mr. Foss' interests lie in music and in his cabin on the St. Croix, to which he has begun a custom of inviting his Vergil students every year. In addition, he is an enthusiastic traveler, having been lucky enough to make a trip to Switzerland last summer and return safely. MR. HORNE is equally at home teaching biology to Seniors or geography and hygiene to Lower Schoolers. Also, as head of athletics at Blake, he is equally skilled at administering first aid or disciplinary swats. His record as coach of the Blake School football team is an excellent one. for the squad, though always light, invariably receives from him the best of sound coaching. During the past year he has been especially busy building and improving his new home opposite the school. Fishing and gardening occupy much of the rest of his time, but his greatest pleasure comes from administering defeats to Blake's foes on the athletic field. He also serves in the capacity of Administrator of Grounds and Buildings — purchasing agent for the school. OWEN EDWARD HORNE Biology. Geography. Hygiene B.P.E.. Springfield College Athletic Director Administrator of Grounds and Buildings 12

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 x PAUL BOSANKO French B.A.. LL.B., Yale University; M.A.. Colorado State Teachers College; University of Minnesota MR. BOSANKO. our learned French professor, takes charge of several activities. In the fall and spring those boys interested in fencing meet with him for instruction. Some of his boys last year entered the Northwest Fencing Tournament and carried off the top prizes. During the winter a green Chevrolet may be seen with about six too many swimmers crammed in. headed for the Minneapolis Club pool. Mr. Bosanko is the one who has to furnish the transportation and balance the books for that much-respected organization, the Blake swimming team. Recently Mr. Bosanko has consented to conduct a French table at lunch to further oral French. If boys at Blake speak better French in the future, it will be at least partially through these luncheon efforts. DURING his twelve years at Blake. Mr. Hodgkinson has been constantly adding newer and more complete equipment to his physics and chemistry laboratory. In addition, however, it has been one of his hobbies to further musical interest at the school by holding recorded music concerts. These are most unique and worthwhile because the records are played on Mr. Hodgkinson's own hand-made phonograph. This machine reproduces sound in the most three dimensional manner yet heard by either its inventor or its audience. Another of Mr. Hodgkinson's ambitions is to have a Photography Club. With this club he plans to make photography an art instead of a candid pastime. Through efforts like these. Blake has become, and will become, more scientifically and artistically minded. HAROLD HODGKINSON Science B.A.. Clark University 14