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

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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

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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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t ii i: I A IV O F A L I. O LEONE NUNAN Lower School Speech Northwestern University IT IS Mrs. John S. Nunan who gives the students their first lessons on how to speak on the stage. For eight years Mrs. Nunan has taken the boys who enter Blake in the Lower School and developed the talents that they possess in the art of thinking and talking on their feet. Every year during the spring term Mrs. Nunan coaches the boys in the three Lower forms in preparation for the Wilson Cup Contest. The result of her efforts is that the Wilson Cup Contest is one of the finest public speaking contests held at Blake. She also produces the annual Lower School Christmas play. Mrs. Nunan has undoubtedly done wonders at Blake in helping the younger boys overcome the natural fear of speaking before an audience. EVER since Mr. Bryan became a member of the Blake faculty in 1938, he has taken an active part in the cultural development of the Blake students. He has had programs of classical music on Sunday evenings at the West House for several years. Besides this activity, he organized the History of Art course which is now open to juniors and seniors. This course is something decidedly new, and it fills a cultural gap which has long existed at Blake. The course at present offers an opportunity to study all major movements and trends in history. In addition to these duties, Mr. Bryan has been the head of the boarding department for several years. WILHELMUS BOGART BRYAN History of Art: Speech: Art: Counselor: Director of Boarding Department 16 B.A.. M.A., Princeton University: Princeton Theological Seminary; University of Minnesota