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

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fiWiCAilO HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1920. The class of 1920 began its history back in the dim, dark ages of Blake, when two of its members went to school in the house on Ridgewood Avenue. Since then Blake has grown and prospered and with the growth and prosperity of the school have come the growth and prosperity of this class, which is now about to spread before your eyes its struggles and advances. The achievements of our class are not very startling in any one line, but as a well rounded whole we stand forth as perhaps the most perfect class ever graduating from Blake. We have proved our ability in the school room as well as on the athletic field, in the speaking halls as well as the executive management of class work. But we will be remembered most by our loyalty, for no class has ever left Blake whose spirit was more united in itself, or more co-operative in its relation to the head of the school than the class of 1920. In the lower school the Class of 1920 was always a leader in athletics, scholarship and spirit. Our class made up the majority of the teams which consistently won over Saint Paul Academy, our deadliest rival. Every year we were with the Lower School, members of our class won the prize for high scholarship and had their names inscribed on a tablet as a reward for their labors. Through the spirit of our class, customs and traditions were built up. some of which are still in vogue among the classes there. These examples show that even then the class of 1920 had begun to assume leadership in school affairs. While in the upper school as underclassmen, we made no remarkable record for ourselves in an athletic way. However, in our Freshman year. Howard won a baseball letter. The next year a large part of the second and third football and baseball teams were composed of 1920 men. while Howard again made the first baseball team. As Juniors, Smith and Thorpe won football letters and Thorpe became Captain elect. During the winter of our Junior year we were represented by two members—Howard and Thorpe— on the basketball team, while the same pair won baseball letters in the spring. Howard, because of his three years’ experience and unquestioned ability, was chosen Captain for 1920. Our class has always been more interested in scholastic than in athletic attainments. For the last four years, Willard has led the school in scholarship. while even as Freshmen our class had the highest average scholarship, which it has consistently maintained. In our Freshman year also, we first began to realize the ability of certain members of our class in public speaking. As Sophomores, Clifford, Hoeffler, Rubins, Willard and Winton were elected to the Union, while Willard won the Union Declamation Contest open to fifth formers. As Juniors, Howard and Thorpe were admitted to the Union. In that year our class debating team, composed of W illard, 18