Matthew Dooley
September 30, 2019
Matthew Dooley ‘06, is back and teaching American Literature and Literary Essay. Dooley was inspired to begin teaching by the great teachers he had during high school at Blake and at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. When describing the biggest reason he began teaching, Dooley said it was becau...
Vance Keeps Ninth Grade Fresh
Noor Naseer, Contributing Writer
November 2, 2018
With her role as the freshmen dean, Jen Vance has made new connections with freshmen while also strengthening those connections as students become upperclassmen. Before her current position, she was the junior and senior dean for the class of 2004 and then the freshman and sophomore dean for th...
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 is that students form teams and pay a fee to play, "killing" other participants by shooting them w...
Seniors’ tattoos expressing the important motivations, realities of life
Josie Lagerstrom, Co-Editor-in-Cheif
April 30, 2018
For seniors Zac Johnson ‘18, Lucy Graham ‘18, Max Owens ‘18, and Abbie Nelson ‘18, getting “inked” was not a decision made lightly. Tattoos, legal at the age of 18, and the more recent minimalist tattoos have started trending among young adults. Johnson has two tattoos, one of the Great Se...
The Pope brothers
Zoe Zellmer, Staff Writer
March 18, 2016
“Compared to other siblings we are very close. We live together, work together… our lives, I would say, are very paralleled to each other’s.”
Words and Songs of Healing at the Thanksgiving Assembly
November 24, 2015
Learning lunch creates space for education and reflection
Chapel Puckett, Managing Editor
November 24, 2015
“For those of us who live at the shoreline / standing upon the constant edges of decision / crucial and alone,” Marie Michael recited. The learning lunch began with a recitation of Audre Lorde’s poem “A Litany for Survival.” Lorde’s poem encapsulates the emotional events in recent weeks regarding th...
Return to Sender
Jack Barker, Contributing Writer
October 29, 2015
An email a day. Maybe two. Who knew that such an ostensibly trivial issue would snowball into a major controversy? Kali Olson’s emails regarding new developments in the library have raised questions about not only the relevance of the emails themselves but also Blake’s communication systems as a whole ...
Press Release: Forum’s Forum
Mark Gustaferro, Contributing Writer
October 27, 2015
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the United States’ thirty-second president, he took the office in one of the worst crises the nation had ever experienced. The Great Depression had devastated the American economy and put around 25% of the national population out of work. Despite the daunti...
Race at Blake
March 19, 2015
Despite what many white people would like to believe, race is still a prominent influence on America and at Blake. In our lives where overt racism on the individual level is not as visibly present, white students question why they are having “race shoved down their throats” when they can’t see...
A Season of the Ages Sadly Comes to an End
Jackson Kelner, Online Sports Editor
March 21, 2013
Wednesday, the Bears took on the #2 seed, Austin Packers, in an unforgettable game. JR Bascom '14 led the way for the Bears with 17 points and 9 rebounds, while John Veil '14 and Blaine Crawford '13 each contributed with 11 points. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough. Despite the Bears' 31-24 lead at halftime,...
Sory’s Story: An Interview with Blake’s French Intern
Raine Robichaud, Staff Writer
March 14, 2013
Endless ambition and passion are two of the many wonderful traits of Blake's very own French intern, Sory. These same traits are responsible for leading Sory into our lives here in Minnesota. French teacher Ms. Cassavante recognizes his unbelievable perseverance in his quest to teach and learn in the...