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

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THE 1946 CALL O' PAN HAROLD SAYWARD WONSON. JR. History.- Geography Supervisor of First Form B.A.. Dartmouth College ALMOST any day during the Spring Term, one may look out upon the baseball diamond and see a tall individual driving a bunch of boys to greater heights. This man is “Chief Wonson. coach of the Blake baseball team. Chief” entered Blake in the fall of 1 940 as adviser and teacher of the First Form, and surprisingly enough is still a calm individual save for a moment or two in every baseball game. During the fall he and Mr. Glenn coach the Varsity Football team. In winter Chief” helps the Lower Schoolers with their skiing, and he occasionally lends his talents towards basketball. In the summer Chief plays professional baseball: but wherever he may be. he is found surrounded by his many friends. TO BE the athletic director of a country day school requires a great deal of patience and understanding as well as an intense interest in boys and sports. Mr. Phillips possesses all of these characteristics and is. therefore, not only an efficient director of athletics but also one of the favorite members of the faculty among the students. Besides teaching American History to the Seniors, he instructs the underclassmen in World Problems, and conducts the annual 'Lime Magazine Current Affairs Test. During the football season he can be seen beside the coaches on game days, nervously enduring the ardors of a close contest: while throughout the year he is kept busy keeping track of two hundred athletes of varying degrees of enthusiasm. ability, and evasiveness. PAUL K. PHILLIPS Athletic Director History B.A.. Amherst: Harvard University: Ohio State University Law School 18

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THE 1946 CALL O' PAN IT IS Mrs. John S. Nunan who gives the students their first lessons on how to speak on the stage. For nine 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. T he 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 THE APPOINTMENT of Mr. Bryan as Dean at Macalester College has been felt as a great loss to Blake, since in this appointment the school is losing its foremost supporter of the cultural side of Blake life. Since he came to Blake in 1938, Mr. Bryan has encouraged public speaking, preparing juniors and seniors for their Chapel talks and the sophomores for their Fifth Form Declamation Contest and has introduced a very interesting and instructive History of Art course. He was also very much interested in furthering musical appreciation, and has invited groups of students to West House on Sunday evenings to listen to recorded programs of classical music. Using his theological training. Mr. Bryan has conducted very impressive Chapel services throughout the year. Although Mr. Bryan's presence will be missed in the future. Blake is proud that a member of its faculty has been selected as dean of a college. of speaking before an audience. WILHELMUS BOGART BRYAN, JR. History of Art, Public Speaking, Art Counselor; Director of Boarding Department B.A., M.A.. Princeton University: Princeton Theological Seminary LEONE NUNAN Lower School Speech Northwestern University 17

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THE 1946 CALL O' PAN GENIALITY marks this Lower School mathematics instructor, who has won a position of great respect and admiration in his four years at Blake. Out of the classroom. Mr. Runkle is one of the most ardent supporters of school athletics. He coaches the coefficients throughout much of the year, and his enthusiasm with the boys is matched only by that of his instructces. An outdoor man in his own right, he demonstrated his interest in athletics and physical education when he rode his bicycle to school during one winter. His interest in the boys and his understanding of them has made him an able adviser of the Second Form. ROBERT L. RUNKLE Mathematics B.A.. Cornell College (Iowa) : M.A.. University of Iowa ALDEN GIBSON VAUGHAN Latin B.A.. Dartmouth College: M.A., Ph.D.. University of Pennsylvania ASSISTING Mr. Foss in the Latin department. that part of the curriculum for which so much patience and desire to instruct is needed, comprises Mr. Vaughan’s chief function in the Blake faculty. However, he has shouldered many other tasks in his two years at the school. Perhaps his primary interest in extra-curricular activities is his supervision of the debating team during the Winter Term. In two seasons he has developed many fine debaters and has contributed much to that portion of Blake life. A year ago he began a Greek course for those who were interested in acquiring a bit of voluntary culture.. The lack of time available for study made its continuance impossible, but the thought behind it was symbolic of his unselfish desire to share in the tasks and problems of Blake. 19