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

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Making friends for the world to see Let the people know you've got what you need With a friend at hand you can see the light If your friends are there then everything's alright. —Elton John catch me in the sunlight catch me pacing past the trees Cynthia Saunders build a fence around me the moment that you see running i'm so elusive sometimes i miss the things worth stopping for. —rod mckuen iama part of all that i have touched and that has touched me. JMT;the zoo;the plastic bag crisis;four little pizzas;songs; parties;nick-names;TSHASP;tapioca sensation;three little chickens; cards;dances;'4cyn2;otsego;the pillows;elmer;the big 8;rughead; ha-ha-yek;strannie;the open;green mansions;buddies;papers;gym class;teachers;cotillion;secrets;gymnastics;stick;baskin-robbins; cloud 20;moving right along now;clap(buzz);what are you, dumb or the boys; martha’s company casserole;mr. christy!!;diaries; grades;laughing;crying;well,what can you do??;miley’s;tennis; belmont;gary;trina;stoon;scrunch;ritcher;bird;coat-rack; 'the loved ones’ ;stratford;tournaments;cheerleading 1,2,3,4;the senior room; boone’s farm;jenny;gossip;rhu; bologna’’;crushes;new year's eve; the soccer party;SAT's;duck you,sucker; summertime college is what you make it

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Mark J. Meister A LONG TIME AFTER The shadows of night had long since fallen, but the old man did not bother to get up from hischair to turn on the lamp. Instead, he continued rocking back and forth, his eyes sparkling as he reminiced aloud, his great-grandson perched on his lap, straddling one knee and listening intently to every word. | spent six years of my life at Maumee Valley. Yes, little Phil, six wonderful years. Of course at the time! didn’t think they were so wonderful.” The old man licked his lips, then cleared some of the roughness out of his throat. “You see, we were a small school, sosmall, in fact, that you might have called us a large family instead. Yes, now that | think about it, that’s exactly what we were—A large family, brothers and sisters. Not just friends or people who just happened to learn together—but brothers and sisters.”’ The old man paused to reflect, and nothingcould be heard but the creaking of his chair. “We had our problems of course. But then, every large family has its problems. We had our good times too. Plenty of them in fact. But we were always growing and changing. Sometimes, for the better. Sometimes, for the worse. But weall grew together. We....” The old man stopped, and tears ran down the wrinkles in his withered face. ‘What's wrong, Grandpa?” the small boy asked. ‘‘Why're you crying” ‘Oh, you wouldn't understand, ’ the old man said in a very tired voice. ‘You see, | miss my brothers and sisters.