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2009-2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT DIRECTORS David Quinn Jackie Barnes Manager'sMessage Maureen Brown VICE PRESIDENT John Fedderke Joseph Zerbey Ron Pearson, General Manager, CCM Richard Hylant TREASURER Brett Seymour 419-254-2988 • [email protected] William Vaughan Gregory H. Wagoner Monthly House Rule Reminder: SECRETARY, Members are reminded of proper locker room etiquette – LEGAL COUNSEL Do not leave clothes, towels or any items on the floor or Justice G. Johnson, Jr seating areas. Please use towel receptacles and store items in your locker. ASSISTANT TREASURER Aaron Swiggum. TOLEDO CLUB STAFF The Toledo Club won the top honor, “Best It was so electrifying and fun that a fall ADMINISTRATION Food Presentation,” at the “ZOOtoDo” engagement is planned for Friday Ron Pearson, CCM: General Manager held on June 18. This chic, black tie event September 10. 419-254-2988 had sixty five of the area’s I am very proud of the many Miguel Cueto: Asst. General Manager finest restaurants and clubs accomplishments of the 419-254-2977 competing for this honor. great professional team at Nathalie Helm: Executive Assistant What a year for The Toledo The Toledo Club, and how 419-254-2980 important we are for the Club! We also were named city of Toledo, from vital FOOD & BEVERAGE SERVICE “Best of Weddings” by the business meetings, to our Nancy LaFountaine: Banquet/Catering Mgr. brides of Knot Magazine. 419-254-2981 community work and a great The club hosted a Bourbon place for members to gather Michael Rosendaul: Executive Chef BBQ on June 24, that was 419-243-2200 ext. 2149 who shape our city’s future. a resounding success. The Numerous projects were Charlotte Hall: Dining Room Manager Bourbon expert, David Reid 419-243-2200 ext. 2134 completed during the said, in all the years he has shutdown to continue MEMBERSHIP been doing the food and Jeremy Loesel: Membership Director to add value to your bourbon pairing, the food at membership. 419-254-2997 The Toledo Club was the absolute best ever! ACCOUNTING I look forward to seeing you at the Membership Mark your calendar for the Dueling Pianos Appreciation Party, September 2! Ruth Fiser: Accounting Manager night. 419-254-2970 Laura Van Camp: Accounting Analyst 419-254-2996 by Dave Quinn, President ATHLETIC John Seidel: Director/Squash Pro President'sMessage 419-254-2962 Charissa Marconi, Fitness and Wellness 419-254-2990 July 4th was a “bang” and we had I hope you are enjoying your summer about 250 people on board The Boyer. and took advantage of Toledo’s other SECURITY private clubs through our reciprocity. David Rainey: Operations Manager The Club did a great job and Chef 419-254-2967 Mike’s barbeque was excellent. We September always feels like the start _______________________________ strive for events like this that are fun, to a new season for The Toledo Club. T O L E D O C L U B T O P I C S that are different, and ones that you This September we start with a greater Published eleven times per year can bring your friends and family to and enjoy. sense of optimism. These last few years, we 235 14th Street • Toledo, Ohio 43604 My deadline for this article was July 14, so have made significant progress in the Club’s (419) 243-2200 • (419) 254-2969 Fax operations. Many thanks to the employees www.toledoclub.org I can’t comment on Party in the Parking Lot, other than to say let’s see if my prediction for their sacrifice and commitment to the Contributing Photographers: Grand/Lubell Club. Many thanks to the member volunteers Sylvania, Ohio • 419.882.1984 of blue skies and a big crowd comes true. It’s also too early for the final numbers on and many thanks to all members for your Designed by: Tony Barone Design Maumee, Ohio • 419.866.4826 our fiscal year ending June 30. I’ll share our support of the Club (it’s showing). results with you next month. 2 Printing/Mailing by: Minuteman Press Toledo, Ohio • www.mmptoledo.com 2009 – 2010 C o m m i t t e e s Finance Marketing Chairman Chairman William Vaughan David Cameron Joseph Colturi John Fedderke Michael T. Marciniak Fred Harrington Jodi Miehls Paula Hiett Mark Ralston Thomas Klein Aaron Swiggum Shirley Levy Dirk VanHeyst Membership Scott Rozanski Chairman Joe Zerbey Social & Entertainment David Seibenick Chairman Jackie Barnes Athletic Kirk Mizerek Dominic Bruno Chairman Art & Maria Bronson Eleanor Quin Marty Connors Craig Herschel Scott Rozanski Steve Bogart Joy Hyman Antonio Russo Alex Due Justice Johnson Brett Seymour Jim Jaros Michael Mori Dock Treece Gary McBride David Quinn Zak Vassar Greg Wagoner Lisa Rozanski Pete Winovich Squash Food & Beverage meeting schedule Chairman Chairwoman Steve Bogart Paula Hiett SeptemberSeptember 7 Jim Burnor Ben Brown Social & Entertainment Committee Alex Due Maureen Brown September 14 Tyson Fankhauser David Cameron Squash Committee Mike Goetz September 20 Joseph Colturi Finance Committee Jeffrey Levesque Dan Effler September 21 Bracken Libbe Amir Khan Food & Beverage Committee Frank Manning Karen Klein September 21 Luke Nachtrab John MacKay Membership Committee Kathy Mikolajczak September 22 Board Meeting Roger Peluso September 16 Ann Sanford Athletic Committee Betty Sherman September 28 Marketing Committee 3 Art CollectionBy Carl White Who are the distinguished gentlemen whose portraits grace the walls of the main dining room? Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925) Carl White, a long time E dward Drummond Libbey was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on April 17, 1854. He was member of the Club, classically educated at boarding schools and wanted to become a minister. volunteered to write His father was William L. Libbey, the general manager of the New England Glass Company a history book to in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, reported to be the largest glass company in the world. He commemorate the bought the business in 1880, and continued to operate it as a manufacturer of fine tableware 100th anniversary of and other household glass. Edward Drumond Libbey joined the company in 1874. He inherited The Toledo Club in 1989. the business after his father’s death in 1883, and soon faced a series of financial crises at the firm. The most serious was in 1886, when the American Flint Glass Workers organized a strike at the company, demanding higher wages. At the same time, soaring fuel costs were cutting into profits. By 1887, New England Glass Company was reportedly losing $40,000 a year with no sign of improvement. Libbey, then 28 years old, decided to move the company to the Midwest, where manufacturing costs were much lower than the highly industrialized East Coast. It was the discovery of natural gas in Northwestern Ohio that caused him to move to Toledo. Toledo had a large labor force, financial and legal talent, excellent rail and water transportation systems, and high quality silica sand was available in nearby Sylvania. Libbey met with the Toledo Business Men’s Committee and agreed to move his company and its 250 employees to Toledo, if the city would provide a four acre building site for the glass factory, and 50 lots within a mile of the site to build homes for some of his workers.The Men’s Committee collected money from 230 individuals through March, 1888, to raise money to buy the real estate. On April 18, 1888, he incorporated the business as “W.L. Libbey and Son.” Fifty train carloads of equipment were shipped in 1888, from the East Cambridge factory to Toledo. On August 17, there was a grand celebration when the main contingent of workers from the New England Glass Company arrived by train from Boston, ready to blow glass in the newly erected glass factory on Ash Street, in a section of Toledo called “Lower Town.” The Toledo Blade newspaper reported that thousands of townspeople turned out to welcome the workers and their families. A band played marching music to escort the workers from Toledo’s Union Depot to a picnic site on the factory grounds four miles away, with bells ringing and whistles blowing. The mayor and other city officials who greeted the arrivals, rode in carriages with Edward Drummond Libbey and his staff through downtown Toledo to the new glass factory on Ash Street. The factory started blowing glass on August 22. The startup was successful, however it was soon learned that the new furnace was inadequate to meet the production speeds and quality levels in the old East Cambridge factory, and replacement workers were needed. Libbey went to Wheeling, West Virginia, seeking workers in the late summer of 1888, and there he met a young glassblower named Michael J. Owens. They were an unlikely pair. Libbey was an urbane soft spoken, even tempered, educated gentleman from Boston. Owens was an unschooled, foul mouthed, ill mannered son of working class Irish immigrants, known to use his fists if he felt the situation warranted it. On October 27, 1899, Libbey hired Owens “for the purpose of developing, constructing and testing a new blowing machine.” In 1892, the company name was changed to the “Libbey Glass Company.” But Libbey’s company continued to struggle. To be successful, it would have to become nationally known. 4 The Libbey Glass Company erected a On September 3, 1903, the “Owens Bottle Libbey married Florence Scott, granddaughter beautiful working glass exhibit/factory Machine Company” was formed to manufacture of Jesup W. Scott, one of Toledo’s founders. building at the 1893 World’s Columbia and license an automatic bottle-blowing A lover of art, Libbey’s wife urged him to Exposition in Chicago, in which the art of machine invented by Michael Owens and establish an art museum in Toledo.

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