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

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A I A E T E E A’ F O IK T V F I V E in football, baseball, and hockey. Shorty was captain of the hockey team in his senior year, and Walt captained the baseball team. After three years on the student council. Shorty climaxed his career by being elected Head Boy, the highest honor the school can confer upon a student. Nat Stevens, “the boy who made Lake Minnetonka famous. entered our class this fateful year. It has often been rumored that Steve has personally traversed every inch of Minnetonka’s 300 mile shore line. One cannot pass lightly over Steve s athletic powers, for he has won letters in football, hockey, and baseball. In the Second Form, one new member, Paul McGough. joined our forces. Paul came from Annunciation, and during his six years at Blake, he became one of the most popular members of his class. As an athlete, Paul was a mainstay for Ray Smith's forward wall for two years, and during the winter of his senior year he was manager of the hockey team. “Casanova Fullerton also entered our class in Form II. Jim has made letters in football, swimming, and tennis. In the Third Form the class was given a timely uplift with the addition of six new members. Alan “quiet but bubbling over with effervescence. Smith joined our crew. Justy Lowe, famous football guard, golfer, goalie, boxer, and well known judge and law-maker, once again joined us after an absence of three years. Edina’s loss was Blake's gain when Brooks Naffziger entered Blake. Brooks has always maintained a high scholastic average, and as an athlete he won letters in Blake’s three major sports. Brooks was elected to the student council this year. Jim Park, football player of note, entered our ranks in the Third Form. However. Jim joined the U. S. Navy late in 1944. thus making it impossible for him to graduate. Tom Mulcahy also joined our ranks in the Third Form. During his four years at Blake, Tom has maintained a high scholastic average, and his name has consistently been on the honor roll. He was a member of the glee club and a reporter on the TORCH. Tom left Blake late in November to join the navy. He was the first member of our class to join the Armed Forces. In the Fourth Form we added seven new members, more than in any other previous year or in any year since that time. Bill Townsend left Ramsey Junior High to join us, and during his four years at Blake he has graced the honor roll many times and has taken an active part in extra-curricular activities. Robbie Struthers. who won much repute as a basketball player, joined us this year. Fred “88 keys” Gamble also enrolled this year. Fred, who for four years has been the AS WE LOOKED IN THE THIRD FORM 29

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t ii i: C A L L I A NT O F O 9 Back Row: C. MacMillan. W. Howard. Finch. S. Adams. L. Brown. Brill. D. Moyer. Middle Row: Hunter. MeGough. N. Stevens. Lowe. F. Gamble. C. Horn. MacAfce. First Row: A. Smith. Heffelfinger. Michael. Mr. Phillips, Hayes. Townsend. Naff iger. Wall work. CLASS HISTORY THE class of 1945 had its illustrious beginning ’way back in 1933 when only one member of the present senior class. Cargill MacMillan, entered the former Junior School on Colfax Avenue. As the oldest member of the class. Mac has been able to give many bits of fatherly advice to the twenty-seven boys as. one by one. they entered Blake’s immortal halls. During his latter four years at Blake. Mac was one of the best athletes in the class, winning several letters in football, hockey, and tennis. Justy [.owe also entered Junior Blake in the fall of 1933. but left in the fourth grade and re-entered Blake in the Third Form. In the second grade. Charlie Horn, the class valedictorian and human encyclopedia. entered Junior Blake. During his stay at Blake, Charlie has proved himself to be one of the ablest speakers, actors, and writers in the class. In the fourth grade. Rip West, a Cum Laude man and athlete of no small repute, joined our growing class. Rip climaxed his athletic career by captaining the 1944 football team. In the fifth grade, the class was supplemented by the entrance of two class Romeos. Bill Howard and Steve Wyer. Both Howard and Wyer also became famous as athletes, scholars, and members of other extra-curricular activities. In 1938. this small group of innocent lads journeyed out to the big school at Hopkins. They were more than slightly perturbed at being transformed from the most prominent class at Junior Blake to the most insignificant class at Senior Blake. They were somewhat astonished at the giants that paraded the halls and the unearthly sounds that were emitted from the senior room, but after a few trips to this strange room, they were acquainted to the laws of the school. In the First Form five new boys joined our ranks. Bill Groth journeyed up from Harley Hopkins to add to our scholastic and athletic strength. Joe Michael came from Fulton and ultimately was to become the editor-in-chief of the TORCH and this year s CALL O’ PAN. Two of our greatest athletes. Walt Bones and Shorty Finch also entered this year. Both of these boys made several letters each 28

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THE € A L L I» A N O F O 9 AS WE LOOKED IN THE FIFTH FORM classes’ leading exponent and player of any kind of music, has also taken time out to earn a letter in football and manage this year's baseball team. Sam Adams journeyed down from Fergus Falls to join our class; Jerry Brill, boogie-woogie player superb, and Les Brown, famous as namesake of one of the country’s currently popular bands and swimming manager extraordinary, also joined us. Also in the Fourth Form Bill Hayes joined us after his graduation from Harley Hopkins. Bill added to the athletic strength of the class by winning letters in football, baseball, hockey, golf, and climaxed his career by being elected president of our class this year. In the Fifth Form, we added one new member. Tot Heffelfinger. During his sojourn at Blake Tot has been a member of the student council, managing editor of the TORCH, a three letter winner in football, a member of the tennis team, and a two letter winner on the swimming team, which he captained this year. In the Sixth Form we added three new members. Bob Hunter, magnificent debater and short-story writer, journeyed over from South Dakota to join us. Deane Moyer, debater, speaker, and owner-of-a-grey-Plymouth-that-subsists-entirely-on-naphtha. left Washburn to join our thriving group. We were also blessed this year when Doug McAfee, French refugee and survivor of three years of Hitler's Nazi government, joined us. Before Doug came to this country he spent many months in a German concentration camp. As a group, we have always stood high scholastically, capturing the scholarship plaque for the form with the highest average every month but once while we were in the Fifth Form. We can truly boast of being one of the greatest athletic classes that has ever sojourned in these immortal halls. Every boy has at least one interest outside of the classroom—athletics, music, publications, or dramatics. Although we will soon scatter throughout the world in the many branches of the Armed Forces, and. although, fatalistic as it may seem, some of us may never return from the tides of this enormous struggle that the world now embraces, through all the experiences that we will encounter, we will always hold close to our hearts the fond memories of the many happy days spent here at Blake. As seniors, we wish to thank Mr. Alder. Mr. Phillips, our class adviser, the trustees, the faculty, and the school staff for the many services they have rendered unto us, and trust that they will continue to keep Blake as it lies in our memories—the greatest prep school in the country. 30