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

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Sell ool Calendar for 1922-23 September IK. Monday, 9 A. M.— Examinations to remove conditions or for entrance. September 19. Tuesday, 9 A. M.—Senior Department (Country School) opens. September 20. Wednesday. 9 A. M.—Junior Department (City School) opens. November 22 and 24—Thanksgiving Holidays. December 22 to January 8 ( Exclusive —Christmas Vacation. February 12—Lincoln's Birthday. February 22—Washington's Birthday. March 22 to April 2 (Exclusive)—Spring Vacation. May 20—Decoration Day. June 2. Sunday—Vesper Service. June 6, Wednesday-—Junior Department Closing Exercises. June 7, Thursday—Lower School Closing Exercises. June8, Friday—Commencement. June 11 to 16—Special School for College Board Examinees. June 18 to 22—College Entrance Examination Board Examinations. 11

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 Mr. C. Bertram Newton. A. B., Princeton '93. who had been for thirteen years a Master at Lawrenceville, was selected as the first Head Master. From 1911 to June. 1919. when Mr. Newton resigned, the school under his leadership rapidly developed into one of the best country day schools. After a year at 1803 Hennepin Avenue, the Senior Department was moved to the present country site, the Junior Department remaining at 1803 Hennepin Avenue for three years more. The first section of the Country School Building (1912) consisted of the Dining I lall-Chapel-Study Hall section and the recitation wing. In 1913 the second section was built, consisting of the Gymnasium, Reading Room. Manual Training Room, etc. By the scholarship record of its boys in school and later in college, by the engendered spirit of good sportsmanship and loyalty, and by the reputation for an idealizing influence on characters at the age of greatest susceptibility, the product of the school came to be recognized for its quality. By his personality, his enthusiastic ardor, and his living example of faithfulness and devotion, Mr. Newton made a lasting contribution to the early development as well as to the permanent success of the school. In 1919, Mr. Raymond B. Johnson, who had in 1916 come from the Country Day School in Boston, Massachusetts, to be the head of the Blake English Department, was appointed Acting Head Master, and. later in the same year. Head Master. In 1920, the Anderson house and barns and six acres of land were bought. This completed the square of the Country School tract and made the total of sixty acres. It also enabled the school to use the dwelling as a boarding annex for the convenience of out-of-town boys or those whose parents left the city for a part of the winter. In 1921. the third addition was made to the building. This greatly increased its capacity and usefulness, making it possible to separate the Upper and Lower Schools, to move the Fifth Year class to the country, and to meet the demands of an increased enrollment. Mr. Charles C. Bovey was the leading spirit when the school was founded in 1911 and continued as President of the Board of Trustees for eight years. To him and to Mr. Newton the school owes a debt of gratitude which may be fully acknowledged but can never be fully paid. Much of the responsibility for the development of the school since its beginning has rested on the willing shoulders of Mr. Franklin M. Crosby, who was Mr. Bovey's successor as President of the Board of Trustees, and who is now in office devoting much of his time and thought to the good of the school. I 10

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