Milwaukee Country Day School

Milwaukee Country Day School (MCD) was a country day school in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, under the headmastership of A. Gledden Santer (A.B., Cambridge), who had been operating a smaller school called St. Bernard's School since 1911; the school was begun in 1917, "incorporated by leading citizens."^[1]. According to alumnus Henry Reuss, "Country Day, with its Church of England prayers, its 'body sports' and its Latin studies, marked the general de-Germanization of Milwaukee culture which occurred in the 1920s."^[2]

In 1964 it was merged with two other local day schools (Milwaukee University School and Milwaukee-Downer Seminary) to become the University School of Milwaukee, of which MCD's facilities became the South Campus (until they were shut down in 1985).^[3] They are now the home of the Milwaukee Jewish Day School.

The school appears ("thinly disguised") in the novel Shadowland by alumnus Peter Straub.^[4]

Notable alumni

• William Kasik, Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• John R. Meyer (legislator), Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• Henry Reuss, Democratic member of Congress
• James Sensenbrenner, Republican member of Congress
• Brooks Stevens, industrial design pioneer
• Peter Straub, horror novelist

References

1. ^ Sargent, Porter. A Handbook of American Private Schools: An Annual Survey (Seventh Edition) Cambridge, Mass.: Sargent's Handbooks/Porter Sargent, 1922; p. 134
2. ^ Reuss, Henry. When Government Was Good: Memories of a Life in Politics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999; p. 7
3. ^ History of University School of Milwaukee
4. ^ Bleiler, Richard. "Peter Straub" in Supernatural Fiction Writers: Guy Gavriel Kay to Roger Zelazny Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003