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

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T II E l» A O F C A L L O HAROLD HODGKINSON Physics, Chemistry B.A., Clark University AS any alumnus who has had the experience can tell you. one’s career at Blake is not complete without at least one year under the tutelage of Mr. Hodgkinson. Blake’s foremost exponent of physics and chemistry. Since 1927, when Mr. Hodgkinson first began guiding Blake’s scientific destiny, boys have been emerging from his classes brimming with the ability to compute the specific gravity of a wooden block three-fourths submerged in salt water, and eager to demonstrate the facility with which they are able to bandy about such phrases as “the hydro-static paradox, and “the homologous series of the saturated hydrocarbons. Aside from his scientific pursuits. Mr. Hodgkinson finds pleasure in music. Blake would indeed be at a loss without the influence of this refreshing personality. DURING his sixteen years’ sojourn at Blake Mr. Strickland has taught every language course that the school offers. Recently he has dropped all languages but German, and is now the head of this department. He has an ardent interest in politics, music, and classical literature. besides possessing a lively sense of humor. In addition to his classwork, Mr. Strickland has coached every available coefficient team both in football and baseball. Two years ago he also coached the varsity hockey team and turned in a successful season. Mr. Strickland has recently suffered a slight period of ill-health and for the present has been forced to stop coaching. All here at Blake hope that Mr. Strickland will soon be able to make use of his coaching ability again. WILLIAM ALEXANDER STRICKLAND German, English B.S., Harvard University: Mid-dlebury College; University of Minnesota 14

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N I X E T E E F O It T Y F I V E THIS year Mr. Cleveland finished his first quarter-century at Blake. Today Mr. Cleveland is senior master of the Upper School in addition to many other offices which he holds in the school. It is his duty as adviser to the publications to see that budding journalists do not go off the deep end” when it comes to “printing all the news that’s fit to print” in the TORCH. He is also treasurer of the Blake Athletic Association. Mr. Cleveland's most important jobs at Blake are vanquishing “the morbid propensity toward sloth and procrastination” which Blake seniors seem to possess and giving their English its final polishing before they leave Blake to enter the colleges of their choice. PAUL BOSANKO French. Spanish 15.A.. LL.B.. Yale University: M.A., Colorado State Teachers College: University of Minnesota PRESCOTT COYLE CLEVELAND Senior Master of Upper School; Secretary of Faculty; English B.S., Union College THIS year of 1945 marks the end of Mr. Bosanko’s second decade as a Blake master. If all the boys to whom he has taught the principal parts of “ctre” during that time were to be stretched end to end, they would undoubtedly go a long way toward reaching from Mr. Alder’s office to the far end of the Champs-£lysees. 1945 also marks the return of Mr. Bosanko as adviser of the swimming team, bringing an end to his unfortunate absence of several years. Blake boys who have imbibed of Romance Languages under his guidance will remember Mr. Bosanko’s uncanny ability for inventing appropriate nicknames and using them. His unique personality and sterling ability as an instructor make Mr. Bosanko a master whom Blake boys will never forget. 13

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IV I E T E E X V I V E F O IK T Y AS the Blake golf team winds up another successful season. Mr. Glenn can look back on fifteen years of untiring labor in Blake activities, many of which have been spent in trying to teach golf aspirants to hit the ball without digging a foundation for a summer cottage on the fairway. He also assists Mr. Smith in pounding the rudiments of football into the skulls of the battered hulks which Blake proudly exhibits as its football team. His activities are by no means limited to sports, however, as many a Sixth Form English student can testify. Besides the aforementioned duties he also conducts the Short Story Club, and the success of the organization is proved by the large attendance at every meeting. WILLIAM JAMES GLENN English B.A.. Ed. iM., Harvard University HAROLD T. LUNDHOLM Mathematics B.A.. Augustana College; M.S., University of Iowa: Columbia University MR. LUNDHOLM. a truly competent man. heads the mathematics department at Blake. This gentleman of facts and figures is proficient in more ways than one, however. Few boys who have been privileged to have him as an instructor will forget the personal interest which he takes in all his students. During the winter term. Mr. Lundholm fills the job of coach for the cagers, and he usually succeeds in bringing them out on top. In the spring, he turns his attentions to the softball squad. As leader of this team, he often produces material for the Bears. His great interest in the school procedures and activities has certainly helped to make Blake School what it is today. 15