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The News of The Blake School Since 1916

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The News of The Blake School Since 1916

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Addison Anderson 19, Sadie Abernathy 19. and Jessie Kang 18 playing assassins.

Assassins accidents cause rules to change

Josh Power, Reviews Editor May 7, 2018

Assassins, a Nerf battle royale in which students compete for glory and prizes among their fellow classmates, is a unique, highly competitive game played at high schools across the country. The premise...

Students prepare for Student Directed Plays which took place April 26 in the Black Box Theater.

Student-directed plays engage students in unique ways

William Lyman, Staff Writer May 1, 2018

Every spring students embark on the challenging, at times stressful, experience of acting or directing a Student Directed Play. Completely organized and executed by student directors, the program takes...

Environmental authors program brings Dr. Kimmerer

Ben Gelb and Natalie Anderson May 1, 2018

      The Otis Environmental Authors Program was created by Philip Otis ‘91’s family following his death in 1995. Otis was a student ranger and was participating in a rescue mission at Mount National...

The college board by the College Counseling Wing will not have students names by their colleges for next year.

College map made anonymous

Anderson Blum, Sports Editor May 1, 2018

Blake’s College Map, located in the college counseling area, will have a noteworthy change when it is posted for the class of 2018. The map will still show all of the schools our seniors will be attending...

Gallery: Day of Silence

Carter Puckett, Staff Photographer May 1, 2018

Science Olympiad Completes Great Year

Anderson Blum, Sports Editor March 16, 2018

Another year of Blake’s Science Olympiad has come to an end, with the Bears winning the title of second best small school in Minnesota at the state tournament on March 3. The Blake team competed in...

Gallery: Students, faculty walkout to support 17 lives lost in Florida

Gallery: Students, faculty walkout to support 17 lives lost in Florida

Alyssa Story, Social Media Editor March 14, 2018

Lead by Anika Gutzke '19 and Zehra Kahn '18 over 30 students and faculty members participated in a peaceful walkout and 17 minutes of silence. Prior to the moments of silence, students gave both planned...

Sinha included a blind contour and embroidered self-portrait in her collection.

Sneha Sinha explores family tree

Eva Berezovsky, Managing Editor February 7, 2018

“Understanding my family gave me a lot of voice, even though I’m not literally speaking,” says Sneha Sinha ‘18 regarding her first semester independent study. Ready for her next step as an artist...

Martha Bennett Gallery debuts bird themed exhibit

Martha Bennett Gallery debuts bird themed exhibit

William Longley, Staff Writer February 7, 2018

There is a new exhibit this month in the Martha Bennett Gallery on both art and nature. Students from Brian Sago’s Printmaking II teamed up with students from Will Bohrnsen’s Environmental Science...

Dr. Graybeal, Associate Head of School, meets with Spectrum to discuss vaping. Although e-cigarettes and vaping are not mentioned in the Family Handbook, [Blake absolutely sees] student use of e-cigarettes as violation of the spirit or intentions of the Family Handbook.

Dr. Graybeal comments: Blake’s take on vape

Elizabeth Opp, News Editor December 15, 2017

Following this month's InDepth, "Vaping Culture," students, teachers, and parents alike have been questioning the realities behind this trend in our community. Associate Head of School, Dr. Anne Graybeal,...

Martha, Kaback team up to bring new era of boys’ volleyball

Zachary Marmet, Staff Writer December 10, 2017

As the excitement from Power Puff football dies down, junior boys have decided to bring back that same idea in a new way with the creation of the Blake Boys’ Volleyball team. Boys’ volleyball is new...

Sophomore dean Mr. Canfield explained

Madeline Meskan, Contributing Writer December 10, 2017

Mr. Canfield, the new Dean for the Class of 2020 and freshman biology teacher, is enthusiastic to bring his Harvard experience as well as naturalist experience to Blake. One of Mr. Canfield’s goals...

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