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

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l 4 soldier, full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard. ICHARD PILLSBURY GALE “R. P.’er” “Dick” “The Galer” Entered Blake, 1912 Football Team, ’16 Captain, Football Team, ’17 Hockey Team, ’i6-'r7-'l8 Captain, Hockey Team, ’17-’18 Class Debating Team, 'i6-'i7 President, Class, Fall, '16 Chairman, Junior-Senior Dance Committee, ’17 Torch Board, 16- 17 Secretary, Blake Union, Fall, ’16 President, Blake Union, Fall, '17 Charter Member, Dramatic Association Yale Secretary-Treasurer, Dramatic Association, ’16-’ 7 Stage Manager, Dramatic Association, ’17-’!8 Chairman, Senior Committee, Fall, ’17 Senior Committee, Spring, i8 President, Class, ’17-’18 Class Basketball Team, ’17-’18 Sergeant, Blake Company, ’17 First Lieutenant, Blake Company, 17-'! 8 Captain, Blake Company, ’18 Presentation, Class Memorial, ’18 Junior Representative, Senior Council, ’17-’18 19

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have succeeded, how influential in shaping the destinies of the school, how well we have served Blake in this, our last year—we leave to you. Our officers at the beginning of the year were Gale, president; Crosby, vice president; Fullerton, secretary; Williamson, treasurer; and Parke, assistant treasurer. We chose Mr. Foss as adviser. Mr. Foss has joined the colors. In losing him we have lost a friend and comrade; in securing him, the nation has gained a loyal and faithful soldier. We instituted what we had long felt to be an important and beneficial plan, one which would elevate Blake standards, Blake honor—the honor system in examinations. This plan received the unanimous approval of Mr. Newton and the faculty. And the experiment has proved a success, a success which we hope will be maintained by the classes which follow. We thought that the then existent Senior Council was manifestly unjust and prejudiced, although we realized how hard preceding classes had striven to make it otherwise, and how earnestly they had labored to make it a just and unprejudiced tribunal in student life. The system we have introduced is not a Senior Council; it is a truly representative organization of the entire school, for which reason it is more just. When these two plans had been inaugurated, we had time to think of football. Captain Gale, Fullerton, Parke, Winton, Cross, Williamson, and Osborne were the Senior members of the team and squad. With the passing of autumn, football came to an end, and hockey took its place. We again had no school team, but Brown and White teams entered zealously into the game. Coffin, Stearns Cook, Penney, Winton, and Gale were the Senior members on the representative teams. Examinations were now perilously near, and we were forced to study harder than ever, if that were possible. After Christmas vacation we went doggedly back to work, striving to maintain 1918’s standards. Time dragged heavily, for we were all restless for spring and a resumption of spring sports. This year we have an unusually fine team, with Captain Coffin; Winton, who was on last year’s squad; Penney, and Cook all on the team. We have a fast tennis squad in Crosby, Williamson, Fullerton, and Hewitt. The annual St. Paul-Blake debate occurred early in the spring. This year it was of unusual interest. Rubins and Crosby were on the team, and George Cook was the alternate. We have now laid bare before you our whole history. Our portrayal of our life at Blake has been a modest attempt, for 1918 is a modest class. If I were a Cicero I might do justice to our biography, but I am only historian of the unassuming and retiring class of 1918. We leave it to you to judge us, we cannot exalt ourselves. As we say a last word of farewell we dwell with love and longing upon the memories of our years at Blake. In leaving, we surrender to the classes which follow the precious burden of maintaining the standards entrusted to us, and those which we nave endeavored to establsih. Donald Yoorhees Jordan, Class Historian 18

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“But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, ” cavil on the ninth part of a hair. OWELL THOMSON BARTLETT “Bart” Entered Blake, 1912 Corporal Blake Company, ’17 Supply Sergeant Blake Company, ’17-’ 18 First Sergeant, Blake Company, 17-’ 18 White Football Team, 'xG-x-j White Hockey Team, 'i6-’i7 White Basketball Team, ’i7-'i8 Alternate, White Debate Team, 16- 17 Class Treasurer, Spring, ’17 Blake Engineers, ’17-’ 18 Princeton Massachusetts Institute of Technology Football Manager, ’17 Editor-in-Chief, Callopan, ' 17- 18 Charter Member Dramatic Assn., T5-T6-T7-T8 Third Prize, Williams Literary Speaking Contest, ’18 Junior-Senior Dance Committee, ’17 Christmas Dance Committee, ’17 Charter Member, Engineering Society 20