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

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8 Lillian Olivia Berglund

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C .a In Memoriam LILLIAN OLIVIA BERGLUND Lillian Berglund joined us in 1921 and for thirty-seven years served Blake as an accountant, secretary, and dietitian. In 1955 she retired, at least officially. But she stayed on, working at a desk in the corner of one of our storage rooms. She didn’t want to be in anybody’s way! And she continued to work, and at the same driving pace as before. She brought the frame of class pictures up to date, planned and finished the folios of all the athletic teams, and in her spare time, straightened out the old records. Several times I tried to persuade her to slow her pace, to rest, to take a vacation. But Lillian was — Lillian. She said, “These arc my boys.” And you were, all of you, the only boys she ever had. And she said also, “There’s so much I still have to do. As 1 said above, there are so many things we do not understand until it is too late. That particular remark I could not understand then — now I do. During the last few months we were all worried, but she would not sec a doctor. God help us, we thought she was stubborn! Finally on April 23 (1958) her illness forced her into the hospital. Even then she cheerfully said, “Oh, I’ll be going home soon.” Once again we failed to understand what she meant. Now we do. Just before her death we discovered that two years previously she had learned that she was incurably ill and that her time was short. No word — no sign to anyone. Once again we had failed to understand. Lillian died April 27. She accomplished the “many things she still had to do. She has “gone home.” — Prescott C. Cleveland 7

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Frederick H. Chute Donald C. Dayton John M. Hollcrn Adrian M. Howard Totton P. Heffelfinger, President Thomas M. Crosby, Vice President Atherton Bean, Secretary Arthur C. Regan, Treasurer Lawrence M. Larson Thomas Lowry Robert L. Nash Norman L. Ncwhall, Jr. Edwin W. Ritchie John C. Savage Sheffield West Albert R. Whitman FOUNDERS James Ford Bell •Charles C. Bovcy •Elbert L. Carpenter •Frederick W. Clifford •George B. Clifford •Deceased Charles M. Case •Franklin M. Crosby John Crosby •William H. Dunwoody •Edward C. Gale •Clive T. Jaffray •Charles S. Pillsbury •David D. Tenney •Charles D. Velie •Frederick B. Wells 9