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

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n i n e t e e n f A VERY athletic gentleman, Mr. Owen has been helping to coach the football team in the fall, the baseball squad in the spring, and all those interested in skiing in the winter. While Mr. Horne was away. Mr. Owen carried on alone with the football team this fall and had a very successful season, when all is considered. Because of the rapid rise in enthusiasm for skiing, some faculty member was needed to organize and supervise this growing sport. Mr. Owen stepped in last winter and now has both group and skiis under control. His excellent coaching on the baseball diamond needs no comment here—the quality of the squad shows both his enthusiasm and ability. A frequent speaker at the Blake Forum. Mr. Owen is also much interested in politics. SHUBEL JAY OWEN Mathematics B.S.. Dartmouth College FREDERICK WILLIAM MOKROS Mathematics B.S.. University of Minnesota: St. Cloud Teachers College MR. MOKROS has been at Blake since the year 1928, when he came here to teach Lower School Mathematics and History. He had previously been principal of two schools in Ely and Winton, Minnesota. His main interest outside of the subjects he teaches is sports. He is an enthusiastic rooter at all Blake games and supports athletic activities in every way: indeed, at the St. Cloud Teacher’s College, of which he is a graduate, he was very active in sports. Although primarily connected with the Lower School, he is well known and liked throughout the whole seven forms. In the summer he likes to spend his vacation in the northern part of Minnesota. 15

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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

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E n f i WILLIAM ALEXANDER STRICKLAND French, German. English B.S.. Harvard University: Middlebury College MR. STRICKLAND has had his hand in every language department at Blake. Regularly he teaches French. German, and English: but last year he took a brief turn at helping out the Latin staff. He has coached every coefficient team from A to Z: and this year added to his record, by way of celebration of his tenth year coaching Blake teams, a season with the “B team baseballers. a mighty comedown for the mentor of the glorious “Z softball team. We must also mention his valuable aid as guide of the second football squad. He admits to an interest in politics, music, and bridge, and claims that his evenings are devoted often to the study of the classics of literature. BORN one hundred and fifty years too late. Mr. Bittinger has nevertheless succeeded in inculcating his history classes with his Jeffersonian principles, seemingly outmoded in these whirlwind days of the New Deal. As head of the history department, he controls offshoots thereof. namely the debating squad and the Forum. Although very busy in this work alone, he may be found on any fall day directing the fortunes of the struggling ”C” coefficient footballers, more commonly known as the “Death Valley” squad. In the spring he helps to coach the varsity baseball team. His hobbies are politics and history. However, the office of greatest trust which Mr. Bittinger holds is that of Senior Master of the Lower School. In this capacity he controls the destiny of all Lower Schoolers. MORRIS HENRY BITTINGER History B.A.. Hampden-Sydney College: M.A.. University of Virginia Senior Master of Lower School 16