Sororities and fraternities were a part of the social network for Grandview High School students from 1915 until they were disallowed in Ohio by an action of the state legislature in 1960.

The Jeffrey Mining Company hosted an annual golf tournament at the 'Arlington Hunt and Golf Club', which was actually called the Arlington Country Club at the time in 1917.

M.M. (Milton) Williams was Grandview's second superintendent of schools, serving after C.A. Waltz from 1919 to 1925.

Grandview Heights Firetruck - Fire Chief Mearl Klingensmith, Jr. (white helmet) and four Grandview firefighters leave the fire station in Grandview's new 1924 Seagrave Suburbanite fire engine.

Liberty Bell Replica - Councilman Ralph Salzgaber (inset photo), Bicentennial Committee chairman for Grandview Heights, proudly displayed the 270 pound Liberty Bell replica ordered for the Grandview Heights-Marble Cliff Bicentennial celebration.

Field Days - Between the years 1915 and 1925, the event of the year was the Grandview Heights, Marble Cliff and Upper Arlington Field Day Celebration. This annual holiday activity, held in early summer featured a parade, food, a baseball game between GH and UA, children's games, etc.

In May of 1923, Grandview Heights. Mayor John Ryder (lower left) proposed a $30,000 bond issue which included $15,000 for a building “of brick construction and artistic design, in keeping with the other architecture of the village,” to be built in what was then the new community park at Goodale Blvd. and Grandview Ave.

1923 Girls Basketball: "For the second time Grandview holds the county title" read a quote from a Columbus Dispatch article, referring to the Grandview Heights girls’ basketball team of 1923.

The Roberts sisters (l to r): Anne Roberts Morgan, Margaret Roberts Hughes, Mary Roberts Price (Mrs. Timothy J. Price), and Catharine (Kate) Roberts Smith (Mrs. Benjamin Smith) were prominent in our local history.

The Brotherhood of the Rook was established by male students in Grandview Heights in 1915, as a boys' social club. Worried that they would have to disband without a clubhouse, they developed a plan to build a house. George Urlin donated $300 for a lot at 1347 Elmwood Avenue, and shares (inset) were sold. A frame building with wood siding and a large fireplace was completed by 1922 (drawing by Bill Arter).

This French-style mansion, located at 1599 Roxbury Road was built between 1908 and 1912 by influential Marble Cliff resident and Columbus businessman Butler Sheldon, son of Robert Sheldon (inset), founder of Sheldon Dry Goods. Butler Sheldon's sister, Flora, was the senior President Bush's paternal grandmother, who lived nearby at 1550 Roxbury.

An architectural design competition sponsored by the Columbus chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Columbus Real Estate Board asked architects across the U.S. to submit designs for a house that cost under $6000 for lots very much like those in the developing areas of Grandview and Upper Arlington. The winning two-story design, shown here, is from architect Fred Wells of Toledo, and was estimated at $5956 to build.

The Gloria is shown in this photograph, with the restaurant at the left and the club section at the right. This WWII era inset photo shows Sam Delewese with his signature cigar and six of the Gloria personnel standing in front of the door from the restaurant to the night club. The photos above the door are Gloria employees, and Delewese and DeVictor sons who were in the service. Many of the waitresses were also family members. Shown here are Helen, Flora, unknown, Sam, Dori, Mary and Jildie.