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

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NOAH S. FOSS At the beginning of the year the Senior Class elected Mr. Foss as its class advisor. Throughout his association with the School he has given his best efforts to its betterment. In the capacity of advisor to the Class of 1 928 he has devoted his energies toward our help and success in a manner characteristic of his entire conduct as faculty member and as advisor to former senior classes. His long experience with the School, his almost infinite fund of knowledge in regard to the requirements of various colleges, and. last but not least, his conscientious efforts to aid the Seniors have made him an ideal advisor to the Class of 1928. We hereby extend our most sincere thanks to Mr. Foss in appreciation of the part he has played in making our last year at Blake one of which we may be justly proud. Page Eighteen

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 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1928 We. the Class of 1928. are about to leave the halls of Blake forever. and with the thought comes a mingled expression of joy and regret, joy that we have passed the first milestone of our lives and are about to enter the higher fields of learning, and regret that we are parting from the school that has become a part of so many of us and in which we can no longer linger with a feeling of subjugation. But before we leave, let us look back over the happiest years of our lives and review our activities: and let us hope that you will bear with us awhile as we voice a bit of pride, perhaps, in our accomplishments. As we joined together at the Junior School in the year 1915 to glean our first knowledge from this world, we had as a nucleus Doerr. Walker and Hollern. After many trials and tribulations, we successfully weathered five years under motherly and tender-hearted affection. Then, entering the Senior School as the most lowly of Lower Schoolers, we did nothing brilliant and maintained an absolute sense of inferiority, distinguishing ourselves only by our supremacy in scholarship and by a slight participation in athletics. Upon entering the Upper School we were imbued with the sense of our own prestige, but were promptly reduced to the usual rank of lowly Freshmen. But it was in this year that we first entered into prominence as a factor in school life. We were represented on the Council by Ford and Hollern: one of our members made the varsity ball team: three were selected for the choir: three took part in dramatics and Devaney made the Call o' Pan Board. Returning to school in the fall of 1925 as high and mighty Sophomores, we promptly subdued the Freshmen in a series of struggles and firmly established our place in school life. That year we had Devaney on the Council. He was also our sole representative on the football team. In hockey Cook. Devaney. and Hollern held down regular positions, while Thomas represented the class on the newly-formed swimming team. In dramatics five members participated, with two of them taking leads, Devaney again was on the Call o’ Pan Board and Johnson helped to make the Torch a success. In the Fifth Form Declamation Contest for the Blake Union Medal Strachauer was awarded first place with Johnson a close second. All this helped to make the year a memorable one. and ore which will befit the rank and prominence to which the Sophomore Class should aspire. Owing to the inactivity of the Senior Class of 1927. we were destined to carry a huge responsibility as Juniors. We entered into every possible field of endeavor and it cannot justly be said that the class was not a credit to Blake. Devaney and Hollern were on the Page Nineteen