Maumee Valley Country Day High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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V , A -' BEST Qi? enteritis . e r1 B 1 i setizitn 1 l s 2: 5' f ' ' ' 'Mlm-RSV EQ , ,,.. - . M N i' ln July of 1949, Mr. Stork, our headmaster, was reminiscing about M. V. and its history. The year, 1949, struck a significant note in his mind- Wasn't 1950 the centennial year of the school? he mused. He began to think of all the ways possible for the school to celebrate its one-hundredth year and in his enthusiasm wrote to G. E. Brown, editor of a newspaper in Batavia, New York, for more facts about the founding of the Bryan Seminary, the predecessor of our school. While awaiting the reply to his letter, Mr. Stork made many plans, it was to be a great celebration. Then came the reply: A history of this area edited by Safford E. North and published some time ago says the school was one of the best--perhaps the very best private school ever conducted in Batavia. The school was established in 1848 What a disappointment! lt was even written-up in the Blade, but as Mr. Stork said, Now I guess we'lI just have to wait another ninety-eight years and put on a bang-up bicentennial celebration. Although we have missed our one-hundredth year, we are pausing to reflect.u'pon the people and events that. have helped to make M. V.

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l The arrival of a complete private school for girls was quite an event for the little city of Toledo in' l884. The school had come from Batavia, New York, where it had existed as the Bryan Seminary for Young Ladies since its founding in l848. A number of Toledo young ladies had been attending the school there, and their parents wondered if it might not be simpler to move the school to Toledo than to send the daughters back east . The Smead sisters, who had assumed direction of the school five years earlier, were persuaded, and thus the Smead School with faculty, pupils, servants, and household goods, migrated to Toledo in July of l884. ' ln September the school opened in the old Hough Place on Summit Street, near the end of the Summit Street horsecar line. As the school was growing, it was necessary two years later to acquire an additional building, the Osborne House, at the corner of Elm and Superior Streets. In 1887 the school made what was thought to be its first and last move to the country when the old Fitch Homestead at West Woodruff and Ash- land Avenue was purchased. Certain portions of the property were later sold leaving the handsome old mansion in the center of a spacious square of grounds. Before many years another building was built to serve for additional classrooms and the residence for boarding students. ln telling the history of Smead School one of the most important things to touch upon is the three Smead Sisters, they made the school what it was.