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

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1913. This addition, the money for which was again raised by the faith and perseverance of Mr. Bovey, provided a present gymnasium in the future chapel, a large reading room, a play room, locker rooms, a manual training room, and an additional class-room. With this very adequate additional space, the school was able to add about twenty boys to its enrollment, opening with 130 boys in September, 1913, and the usual twenty-five in the Junior School. With greater facilities, a larger faculty, now numbering twelve in the country and two in town, and a smaller number of new boys to “digest,” the school has gained in all departments during its third year, and has begun to develop an atmosphere of work and play of the kind for which its founders and faculty have been working. Such is the history of the Blake School, in its bare outlines. It would be impossible to express, even in much more space, the amount of ambition for the finest things, of earnest and loving thought, of intelligent and farsighted planning and of unselfish generosity which have been put into the development of the school. These time will surely show as year by year we all march together, putting every ounce of ourselves into the effort to “Make Her Worthy”—“Plan and Hope Fulfill. C. B. NEWTON SCHOOL AND STUDENTS

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(£hf iBlakr $rhonl I ffiifltnriral kctrli The Blake School was founded in 1907 by Mr. William McK. Blake, opening with about a dozen boys. This little group grew in numbers each year until 1910. when it reached an enrollment of about sixty-five pupils. During the Christmas Holidays. 1910-1911, its location was changed from 200 Ridgewood Avenue, to more commodious quarters at 1803 Hennepin Avenue. In 191 I, a group of men interested in the school incorporated it under the laws of Minnesota as a non-profit-making corporation, with a self-perpetuating board of trustees, consisting of fifteen men. The leader in the movement for the school was Mr. Charles C. Bovey, who was elected first president of the board, and still holds that office. Mr. Edward C. Gale was chosen vice-president, and Mr. C. T. JafTray treasurer of the new organization. The other members of the board were Messrs. James F. Bell. Elbert L. Carpenter, Charles M. Case. Frederick W. Clifford, George B. Clifford. Franklin M. Crosby John Crosby, William H. Dunwoody. Charles S. Pills-bury, David D. Tenney, Charles D. Vclic, and Frederick B. Wells. A guarantee fund of nearly forty thousand dollars was pledged toward a building to be erected within the next four or five years, and an invitation extended to Mr. Charles Bertram Newton of the Lawrenceville School to take charge of the re-organized school. In the fall of 1911, the new Blake opened in the old quarters at 1803 Hennepin, with fifty-five boys in the Senior Department, and thirty in the Junior Department, filling the brick mansion at Summit and Hennepin to its utmost capacity. Mr. Blake continued as Senior Master, and four new teachers were brought from the East by Mr. Newton for the Senior Department. The School grew in its spirit of loyalty and efficiency in spite of its cramped quarters, and early in the ensuing winter, the trustees decided to delay no longer, in purchasing a site and commencing to build. Careful search for a suitable location, and an active campaign for additional funds led by Mr. Bovey. resulted in the present exclusive and conveniently located grounds, on which the first section of the building began to rise early in May. 1912. Thanks to the energetic supervision of Mr. Franklin M. Crosby, chairman of the building committee, the school was able to open only a day or two after schedule time, late in September, 1912, with 1 10 pupils in the Senior or Country Department, and twenty-five in the Junior Department, which still continued at 1803 Hennepin Avenue. Another year of healthy development followed, but it was soon evident that more space was needed to accommodate the boys outside of the classroom. Accordingly, the central section of the building, which had been planned as a whole by the architects, Messrs. Hewitt and Brown, was begun in June,

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THE BLAKE SCHOOL FACULTY