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. 4' 'XRELY can a school find its beginning in the idea of a pretty young woman, twenty-three years old, with blue eyes, and softly curling' 'hair,'a love ofgaiety, and not much systematic education, Yet such was the inception of Columbus School for Girls, Florence Kelley was a graduate of Miss Phelps English and 'Classical School for Young Ladies and Children in Columbus, Ohio. This was a boarding and day school, drawing its pupils from Columbus and from a considerable area of the middle and southern states. The head of the school was a gentlewoman from the South. Her purpose was to give her young ladies moral and religious instruc- tion along with the usual school subjects and to finish them by inculcating in them such manners and cultural ideals as should fit them to become prominent in fashionable domesticlife. She and her associates in the school took' no part in the woman's movement then rising in Columbus, and remained unaware that the prospect of continuing their edu- cation in college, as their brothers did, might be stirring in the minds of the more serious of their young ladies. Miss Phelps was moved to resentment and indignation when one of her own recent grad- uates suggested opening a school for girls with eastern college preparation as its main object. There had been many private schools in Columbus-for through- out Ohio., as in the eastern states, there were private schools long before public schools were established. Such a school as Florence Kelley proposed would be, t 4 FLORENCE f KELLEY W1-HTRIDGE Barn in Dayton, Ohio April 1, 1876 Diedzin New Canaan, Connecticut ' Mmb 14, 1952 however, the first of its kind in Columbus, and Miss Phelps told her that her idea was preposterous. Miss Kelley was a young woman of determination, however, and Miss Phelps' disapproval did not deter her. With the courage of youth, she began to look about for some one to share her project. She ap- proached Mary Bole Scott, with whom she was slightly acquainted. Miss Scott had recently been graduated from tl'ieiOhio' State University, then a small in- stitution with a few hundred students, and it was rumored that she was going in for teaching. She was ,the youngest of a family of excellent teachers, four of whom had already found place in the public schools. She hesitated about joining in a scheme which seemed to her and her sisters fanciful, and financially precarious: but she laughingly remarked that there were in the public schools about as many Scotts as the system could absorb -and threw in her lot with Miss Kelley. Mrs. Kelley promised to help with the housekeeping and, after the two had trudged the hot city streets all summer in quest of pupils, the School opened in the autumn of 1898. A photograph of that first year shows a total of twenty-eight persons, comprising the two heads, sev- eral part-time teachers, girls young and old, and little boys! Steadily the School grew in numbers. The pupils in those first years have a ,joyous memory of the early days, when Miss Kelley with her group -...1...4..M .,..... A.- -- .-...,, A
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