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

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'parity 0tp yu% + PAUL FREDERICK BROWN Entered Blake in 1940 “Fritz” Minnesota “Who shall place a limit to the giant’s unchained strength ?”—Bryant It is said that even at the early age of seven Fritz was already throwing unsuspecting victims over his shoulder. During the intervening years he has devel-( 1 k 1 this amazing skill to l ecome the best wrestler at Blake. This amiable lad was one of the first memlxrrs of Percy Villa's “Manly Art of Self-Defense” class and is now the champion of the heavyweight division. Fritz was on the Jv football squad for two years. Also every spring he has been an ardent racket-swisher on the tennis courts while not looking for “lost” balls. If not there, he can he found standing far afield during a softball game waiting hopefully for a ball which never comes. One of the stage hands of the greater Blake plays, he struggled valiantly to keep the props from collapsing during dramatic moments. This year he has been a Lower School waiter. Overcoming the natural urge to strangle the precious little tots, he has cut their meat, poured their milk, and practically eaten for them during many trying months. No mean marksman, Fritz has several shooting medals and an interesting gun collection. Also, he possesses a large collection of antique and foreign coins and currency. At present Fritzie plans to enter a surgeon’s course at the “U”; if not. he will enter the Navy. Whichever one he enters will gain a friendly and willing worker.

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 m zCC 0 GLENN STURGIS BROOKS Entered Blake in 1937 “Glenn” USNR (V-12) “I’ll tell the world.”—Shakespeare “And then she said—” can be heard issuing from the senior room at almost any time of the day. The relator of this spicy gossip is usually found to he none other than Brooks, the female authority of the senior class. With his “gift for gab” Glenn can claim, besides several speaking awards, the distinction of being the only chapel speaker who has ever been able to keep the seniors awake for more than three minutes. In spite of his more favored interests, Glenn has always found time to keep his marks well above average; also he has won many athletic honors. In the Sixth Form he was vice-president of the Athletic Association and served as president the last half of the year. Glenn has won two letters on the football team and was elected captain this year. He was awarded the Williams Cup for being the team’s most valuable player. Keeping up his record. Brooks won three letters in baseball for his pitching prowess. Still not satisfied, he proceeded to win three more letters in hockey and the Dartmouth Hockey Trophy. He was voted on the Council last year and has been in the Union for the last two years. Four years ago Glenn joined the Glee Club and has been singing “Give Me Some Men Who Are Stout-Hearted Men” ever since; but, nevertheless, he received the Glee Club key. This year he became head of that motley crew, the Upper School waiters, and has served with the remarkable inefficiency towards which all waiters work. Glenn is now registered in the V-12 Program and will enter the Navy in July.

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 « 0 WALTER TANNER CLEVELAND Entered Blake in 1940 “Cleve” USNR (V-6) “Far from the gay cities and the ways of men.”—Homer CIcvc first entered these moldy walls back in the Fourth Form. Very quickly we perceived he had an uncanny ability to turn a simple statement into a tortuous mass of words. In fact any clarifying just made matters worse. Soon we made another discovery— Cleve lived in a different world, namely Excelsior. That this hamlet had less than a population of two million and wasn’t the capitol of at least three states, Cleve could never be made to admit. Any spare moments in the senior room always found Cleve buried in an enthralling issue of Hoy’s Life, from which he sometimes aroused himself to repeat a particularly timeworn joke. Aside from his literary pursuits, Cleve usually found the energy to drag himself out to the football field, wrap his arms around somebody’s legs and fall to the ground. He did this so well he won his letter last fall. For the last two winters Cleve has cut his way through the green j ea soup in the Minneapolis Club pool to win another letter. I le has been one of the Glee Club’s most popular singers and will long ! e remembered for his bass solos in such hits as “All flail the Power of jesus’ Name” and “Casey Jones.” Cleve is now in the Navy V-6 program taking radar, and we can lie almost certain that right now some one is listening to one of his odorific puns.