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

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Charles C. Bovey George B. Clifford Clive T.Jaffray William 1. Blake C. Bertram Newton Franklin M. Crosby Charles S. Fillsbury John Crosby David D. Tenney William H. Dunwoody Edward C. Gale Charles D. Velie Frederick B. Wells THE FOUNDERS Charles C. Bovey - with the Washburn Crosby Co first pres ■dent of the Board of Trustees of Blake School ... trustee from 1911-1928 James Ford Bell — founder of General Mills trustee ol Blake from 19111919 Charles M. Case — a gram executive trustee of Blake from 1911-1925 Frederick W. Clifford - CO manager of the Cream of Wheat Corporation served as a Blake trustee for twenty years 1911 1930 George B. Clifford — with the Cream of Wheat Corporation . in the mortgage investment business .. served as a trustee Irom 1911-1919 ... his son. George B Clifford. Jr served as President of the Board Franklin M. Crosby - a director of the Washburn-Crosby Co . later a Director and Vice-President of General Mills Inc « was Mr Crosby who chose the present hilltop site of the school and also Supervised the construction of the original building . was a mem ber of the board for 36 years from 1911 until his death m 1947 President of the Board of Trustees from 1919-1938 John Crosby - an attorney, industrialist, banker one of the builders of the Washburn-Crosby Company, which evolved into General Mills ... served as a 8lake Trustee from 1911-1919 William H. Dunwoody - served as a Blake trustee from 1911 until his death in 1917 . with the Washburn-Crosby Company later President of the Northwestern National Bank also a founder of tho Minno apolis Art Institute, Dunwoody Institute and Abbott Hospital ... Edward C. Gale — a lawyer with tho firm of Snyder. Gale, and Ri chards served as a trustee for ten years 1911-1921 he was its first Vice-President also President of the Minneapolis Library Board and Vice-President of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Clive T. Jeffrey — Minneapolis banking, railroad, and n dustrial leader servod as a trustee from 1911-1916 Charles S. Pillebury - with the Pilisbury Flour Mills . . . also a Oi rector of the First National Bank ... a railroad execunvo a trustee from 1911 io 1919 David D. Tenney - with the Tenney Company, a gram commission firm served on the Blake Board of Trustees from 1911 to 1927 . Charles D. Vefie - V dent of Deere and Webber Co also a railroad and banking director . a trustee for fifteen years from 1911 to 1925 ... Frederick B. Wells — with the F H Peavey andCompany sorved as a Blake trustee from 1911 to 1921 William Me-Kendree Blake - original founder of the school C. Bertram Newton - Blake's first Headmaster 17