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

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again distinguished the class on the football and baseball field. W e were also well represented on the basketball floor, with Xash and Owen winning their letters. Baldwin played on the tennis team. In the intellectual field we were equally fortunate, Douglas and Baldwin making the debating team and leaving only one place to the seniors. Douglas captured the (ieneral Information Cup. The class also won the inter-class basketball championship by a wide margin. Nickel and Xash served on The Torch and Callopan boards respectively. In the field of dramatics. Nickel . Douglas. Baldwin and Xash all had leading roles and contributed to the success of the season. TIu big success of the final event of the season, the Junior-Senior dance, was due to the unflagging zeal of the junior committee. Last fall we entered upon the last lap with a determination to raise the standard of Blake higher than ever before. Owen, Sudduth and Nash served on the football team. ( )n the basketball court, (been and Xash again starred, while in baseball Clifford. Sudduth, Xash and Owen figured prominently. In debating, the class was again successful, the team being entirely composed of seniors Baldwin. Douglas and Nickels,-—the last succeeding Baldwin in retaining the Strieker clip. Douglas won the (ieneral Information prize. Nickels. Baldwin and Douglas again played leading roles in the dramatic field. It is this year that the high-water mark of the Senior Council has been reached under the leadership of Horace Nickels. It has been a potent factor in school life and a very real influence, both morally and in school spirit. It i with these thoughts in mind and an earnest desire in our hearts to see the perpetuation of the ideals which we have striven with but partial success to attain, that we pass the Torch to those who follow with what we trust is an undimmed light. 17

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History of The Cl ass o f 1922 It may be said that the class of ‘22 came into being: in the Second Form. For it was there that the nucleus composed of Horace Nickels, Henry Sud-duth. and Robert Nash came together to tight their way with the aid of classmates who later joined them in the journey toward the goal embodied in the coveted diploma. True to precedent we were duly informed that a a class we were the poorest that had ever graced the halls of Blake. It was probably this negative encouragement as much as anything else which gave us the desire to light and win for ourselves, and thereby our school, a place of dignity and worth. In view of this it was perhaps well that we did not know in those earlier years that every class is considered by those who are farther advanced along the primrose path to be the most hopeless ever. But be that as it may. it was the spirit of energetic ambition, judiciously encouraged by our class advisor and directed toward that tangible thing—the diploma—that led us onward and upward to our place as seniors. It was that same Blake spirit which made us strive for, and win, a place on the various athletic teams while in the lower school. This was also carried to the class-room, where with patience tempered with enthusiasm we were instructed in the greater, if less pleasurable, pursuits. hen. in 1918, we were officially admitted into the upper school, we felt that another milestone had been passed. Now were we by virtue of age and experience qualified to assume a more definite place in the school program: now with our goal more clearly in sight we pressed forward with new enthusiasm. As we returned in the fall as sophomores we felt a yet more definite sense of responsibility and desire to be as a class a potent factor in the success of our school. W e were represented on the football team by Owen and Nash, while the rest of us served as lowly scrubs giving the varsity all the opposition we could, and thereby forming an important factor in the team’s success. Two of our members played on the basketball team. When spring came our attention was turned to baseball, where Owen and Nash again won the coveted 4T .” In the fall of '19 we returned with an opportunity for the first time of participating in the school administration. This was an added incentive to future labor. Sudduth and Hastings served on the Council. Owen and Nash 16

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 He moil Ills a salience, as curs mouth a hone ROBERT G. BALDWIN “Bob” Entered Blake. 1921 Debating Team, ’21. '22 Captain. Debating Team. ‘21. '22 Blake Union. '22 Secretary. Blake Union. '22 Football Squad, ’21 Callopan Board. '22 Dramatic Association, ’21, '22 Presentation of Class Memorial. '22 Minnesota Class Secretary, ’21 President. Class. '22 Tennis Team. ’21 Strieker Cup. '21 Class Debating Team, ’21. '22 Class Basketball Team Orchestra. '22 18