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The News of The Blake School Since 1916

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The News of The Blake School Since 1916

The Spectrum

Students and athletes shake hands after a hard fought basketball game on Feb. 1.

Unified Unites Community

Steven Cao, Managing Editor March 13, 2025

Unified Sports partnered with the varsity basketball team in hosting a community game with the Western Wings on Feb. 1. Unified is a Special Olympics program that gives athletes with intellectual disabilities...

Buck break dances at his University of Chicago reunion. He often competes in dance battles with “different formats, but the most common is they’ll have a preliminary round where
everybody dances for 45 seconds or a minute, and sometimes that’s showcase style where they’ll just have one person come up after the other and dance in front of the judges.”

Harold Buck Breaks it Down

Anna Tao, Staff Writer March 16, 2023

Harold Buck has been a common topic among students the past year due to his increasing popularity from dancing in class. He first “caught the wave of suburban breaking in 1984.” Buck continues,...

Stafford stands in front of the debate team’s extensive trophy
case. Not pictured: the rest of the trophies that sit outside of the
debate room. Terveen notes, “[There is] definitely no [pressure to
win]. Although he is of course very proud when teams do well!”

Passionate Debating Minus the Pressure

Faith Zhao, Staff Writer March 7, 2023

Shane Stafford and Sandy Berkowitz were originally debate rivals. Now married, they coach debate together.  The first time they met, they were at a tournament at Princeton University. After the debate,...

Vivien Pihlstrom, Uma Bastodkar, and Leyla Lyu complete a two-day hike to the Trift Hut, above Zermatt. Other attendees not pictured include Obi Nwokocha and Sophia Peterson ‘25.

Students comment on challenges of program

Rhea Balachandran, Staff Writer January 27, 2023

Although many students were ready to return to school on Jan. 3, Swiss Semester students came back to Minnesota from Switzerland for the first time in three months. Leyla Lyu ‘25, Uma Bastodkar ‘25,...

From Paulauskas’s time in the military to his government and investigative work, he has experience from across the world in many specialities. Paulauskas had a 34 year career as a Criminal Investigator, sharing that he had “been all over the world doing that.”

Gene Paulauskas Chronicles Career

Zoey Ueland, Staff Writer December 1, 2021

Currently, Gene Paulauskas works as the Lead Security Officer after his tenure began in early Nov. 2020, but this is simply another stepping stone in his long list of successful and unique careers. Represented...

Williams was a player on Season Five of “Jeopardy” on May 23, 1989. She was featured on episode number 1102.

Adventures of Janet Williams

Mackenzie Higgins, Staff Writer November 4, 2021

Janet Williams was not always interested in teaching chemistry. Williams, who grew up in southern Michigan, explains that Chemistry was probably her least favorite class in high school. She didn’t...

Kyle also loves to reread her diverse book collection and watch sports movies, one of her favorites being Rudy.

Ms. Kyle Discusses College Counseling Journey

Nya Manneh, Staff Writer December 18, 2020

Sara Kyle, Director of College Counseling, found her passion for counseling early on. Kyle has worked at Blake as a college counselor for 19 years, but she says that she has “been in college admissions...

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