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

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Captain. Debating Team. '28 Strieker Cup. ’28 Secretary. Union, '28 Union. ’28 Williams Theme Contest. ’28 Publications Board. '28 Valedictorian ROBERT OAKES MACNIE Entered Blake 1920 ’ Hob.” Lillie Mac. Wildcat Plushing is the color of virtue Yale And in this corner, ladies and gentlemen, we have the child prodigy of Lake Place, the Boy with the Bulky Brain. We point with pardonable pride to our Valedictorian, the only member of the Class who can work a problem in long division clear through to the bitter end. Me has often been mistaken for a faculty member by near-sighted old ladies visiting the school, and we have it from a reliable source that one of the mental ciphers in the Lower School addressed him as ’’Sir for the belter part of the year. The Class has always thought that some sort of honorary degree (the third degree, for instance) ought to be conferred upon Bob for the prodigious amount of free tutoring he has contributed. but when the time came, the captain of the debating team put his foot down hard and said no. he didn't think he cared for any. so there you are. It's a lot to expect, but if luck is with him. the boy may pass his Boards this June, and then maybe they'll get a little sense down in New Haven. Page Tiventy-seven

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-Oku Council. '25. 27. ’28 Football. ’27 Baseball. ’25. '26. '27. ’28 Captain. Baseball. ’28 Hockey. ’26. 27. ’28 Debating Team. '27 Choir. '27 Dramatics. ‘26. ‘27. ‘28 Stage Manager of Dramatics. '28 Fifth Form Declamation Contest Junior-Senior Dance Committee. '27 President Class. '25 Class Historian Torch Board. '27 Union. '27, ‘28 Varsity Club JOHN MCCORMICK HOLLERN Entered Blake 1915 Holly. Mare Dartmouth The grey mare is the better horse. In his stormy career at the old school ' Holly has borne his many adversities with a patience characteristic of his namesake, the Old Grey Mare. He has suffered in silence Cleve's multifold upbraidings for misuse of mouthfilling polysyllables, an expression of mute reproach on his countenance. His versatility in athletics has astounded all and sundry, for he has been one of the mainstays of the football, baseball and hockey teams during his last year in the forest primeval. This spring he was shifted from his accustomed position of catcher to that of pitcher and has bid fair for being numbered among the Mound-Builders of Blake. Because of the fact that he embarked upon the deep blue sea of Blake School life when most of us were learning the safe navigation of our perambulators, and because of his admirable perseverance in seeing the fight through to the grim finish. ’’Holly'' was elected to chronicle the achievements of the Class of 1928. The reader may see the finished product on page nineteen of this book. CaOtat emptor. Of late he has taken up the fascinating game of bridge, and if the authorities at Dartmouth request him to leave it will doubtless be to save his fellow students from bankruptcy at the hands of this wizard. Page Twenty-six

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Librarian. '28 General Information Cup. ‘28 PAUL EZEKIEL PADDOCK. JR. Entered Blake 1927 Ambassador ’ Zche Princeton My library was dukedom large enough. When Paul entered Blake last fall, he was intrusted with the gigantic task of making order out of chaos in what, for want of a better name, was naively termed the library. In conjunction with this, he was also assigned to the even more gigantic task of gathering in from outlying districts some two hundred odd (very) books which had been dispersed to the homes of Hterarily inclined members of the School. In one short year he has built up a systematic arrangement of what was before a mere incongruous mass of literature, thus putting to shame Hercules and his seven labors. When the time for the General Information Contest rolled around. Paul sauntered nonchalantly out of the study hall door at the end of fifteen minutes, leaving on the desk more knowledge than was displayed in an hour by the rest of his fellow students. He plans to enter Princeton next year and. although having gotten a bad start by spending one year at the University of Minnesota, he is pointing for the diplomatic service. His departure from the little red schoolhouse will be mourned by all. and especially by the office force. Page Twenty-eight