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UPPER A Schools Business Homes Recreation Columbus Monthly Advertising Section GOOD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN You MAKE THE RIGHT DRIVE. Your favorite and the unique stores. Men's, women's and children's fashions and accessories. Home furnishings, electronics, cards and books. Toys, pets. Gifts and more gifts. Restaurants. Two of Columbus' most popular restaurants, and a food court teeming with choices. And services. Styling, printing, tailoring, repairing. \\a ASHOUJOfHBNDS *N £•!>** LARSON „ / s()r * ^/%iK •D s Sh </ Bombay ^ < N Com?' Lane Avenue. A Spectacular Collection of Over 90 Stores. Including Banana Republic, Dockers Shop, Little Between Route 315 and Route 33 Professor Book Company, MicroCenter, The on Lnae Avenue in Upper Arlington Original Levi's Store. Talbots, and China Dynasty 614/481-8341 and Peasant on the Lane restaurants. Monday - Saturday 10 to 9 • Sunday 12 to 5 Preserving the best, Renewing the rest ride. Spirit. Opportunity. Those are more than just the words on Up per Arlington's new logo. They represent the way we feel about our Pcommunity's past, present and future. Those of us fortunate enough to live or work in Upper Arlington take pride in a city that has maintained the highest standards of excellence for more than 75 years. We're proud of our homes, proud of our schools, proud of our recreational and cultural facilities. But most of all we're proud of our people, the 35,000 citizens who make Upper Arlington what it is. They give us the community spirit that bricks and mortar alone never can provide. Like every community, Upper Arlington is changing. We have very lit tle land available for new development, so our resourceful citizens are ex panding and updating homes to accommodate family needs. Our business community and city officials, too, are seeking opportunities to grow and improve services without putting at risk the quality of life the community has nurtured and developed so carefully over the decades. The city of Upper Arlington, the Upper Arlington Area Chamber of Commerce and the Upper Arlington City Schools are pleased to join Co lumbus Monthly in publishing and distributing this special advertising sec tion. In the pages that follow, you'll find a profile of our nationally honored school system, a discussion of our efforts to broaden and expand the city's business base, a feature on some of the leisure activities and community services available to Upper Arlington residents, a survey of the broad range of housing in the community and an essay by Corinne Redick and Margaret Smith-Morrison, better known to many as the Silver Twins— THE FRENCH two loyal and energetic residents who have spent a decade learning all REFLECTION they can about our community. Upper Arlington is a mature city with proud traditions. But we are also a MIRROR changing city, open to new ideas and suggestions. Whether you're an en trepreneur seeking the right spot to grow a business or a newly married couple in search of the perfect place to raise a family, you'll find a wel come in Upper Arlington. Come and see for yourself! Richard A. King City Manager City of Upper Arlington The French Reflection and Mason's Bath Boutique proudly present the Christine J. Vineis world's finest shaving and makeup Executive Director mirrors. The mirrors are available in Upper Arlington Area Chamber of Commerce brass and chrome, lighted or nonlighted, 3x, 5x or no magnification, William J. Schaeferlll as seen in fine hotels. Superintendent a Upper Arlington City Schools aSoftA^ <H BATH BOUTIQUE Lane Avenue Shopping Center 486-9616 I pper Arlington Advertising Section • May 1994 S.^ kkfemt- to i WESTERVILLE inmwBUN WELCOME WELCOME TO TO k COLUMBUS REYNOLDSBURG BIRTHPLACE OF THE GREGORY S. UfittJlM 4°t849% TOMATO Welcome To HILLIARD Welcome to 'A Pride Community' Clintonville Established 1853 Home of the Franklin County Fair At SNP, we take news coverage to the limits. Every week. Whether you live in the city or the provocative opinion columns, and suburbs, chances are you receive letters from people you know. When one of our community newspapers it's local information you need, rely every week. Our papers feature on SNP. We take news coverage award-winning news, sports to the limits. and photography; Every week. 5257 Sinclair Road News and sports 785-1199 785-1212 Classified Ads 785-1200 SNP PUBLISHES: Upper Arlington News, Northwest Columbus News. Tri-Village News, Dublin News, Worthington Suburbia News, Westerville News, The Booster, Northland News, Bexley News, Whitehall News, NewsEAST, Reynoldsburg News, Cahanna News, Olentangy Valley News, Pickerington Times-Sun, Canal Winchester Times, Hilliard Northwest News, German Village Gazette, The Public Opinion, Grove City News, New Albany News, Westland News. FiC» Upper Arlington Advertising Section • May 1994 Schools Educating the leaders of the 21st century Upper Arlington's schools are known throughout the country. A new administration is working to maintain and enhance that reputation. By Mary Beth Ganim or years Upper Arlington has been touted as one of the nation's exem plary school districts. The district's most recent laurel came in a rating of school systems across the United FStates by Expansion Management maga zine, which ranked Upper Arlington among the top three school districts in the nation. The UA schools consistently rank among the top districts in Ohio on the state's ninth grade proficiency exam and other standardized test scores. More than 90 percent of Upper Arlington High School graduates go on to college, and the school has graduated an average of 13 National Merit Scholarship finalists each year since 1975. The teaching staff includes a na tional teacher of the year, a national teacher of the year runner-up and two state teachers of the year. Upper Arlington High School has earned more state cham pionship sports titles than any other school in Ohio. And UAHS recently was rated by Columbus Monthly as the best suburban high school in Franklin County. It's an impressive list of accomplish ments, and it's reflected in the district's Students study both musical composition and computer graphics in an interdisciplinary public image. "I think most people believe course at UpperArlington High School. Upper Arlington Advertising Section • May 1994 iVZ we are an excellent school district," says Superintendent Bill Schaefer. "We receive nearly 2,000 requests for informational packets each year from interested parents and Realtors. These requests come from all across the country. When people call they usually tell us they are moving to the Co lumbus area and have heard we are the best school system." Before being hired by the Upper Arling ton Board of Education in January, 1993, Schaefer had spent 18 years as a superin tendent, the last 13 in a suburban school district near Phoenix, Arizona. "I had defi nitely heard of Upper Arlington schools," he says. "I think most of the country's ed ucational community has heard of UA." So what has earned Upper Arlington schools their national reputation? "I think it's several things working in tandem," 'ington 's elementary school curriculum stresses small classes andpe Schaefer says. "We offer students from instruction. kindergarten through high school excep tional educational opportunities. We have ganizes curriculum around broad themes long list of awards and accomplishments an energized, experienced staff, highly of study with a focus on children's litera at the high school says a lot about the type motivated students and a supportive com ture, combination classes and multi-aged of education students receive in the ele munity." groupings. "Which philosophy works best mentary and middle grades." The exceptional educational opportuni truly depends on the child and parent," UAHS offers 10 courses in business, ties begin early, according to Robert O'Brien says. "We have seen no signifi 12 in communications, 13 in computer O'Brien, the district's new assistant super cant difference in the achievement levels and audio-visual technology, six lan intendent. "Studies show that in grades K- of students in the two programs. We feel a guages (Spanish, French, German, Rus 3, a small class size makes a marked im commitment to offer both programs partic sian, Japanese and Latin), 30 English pact on a child's early education," O'Brien ularly since many students and their par courses from basic composition to etymol says. "Our board made a commitment to ents have a strong preference for one or ogy and Shakespearean seminars, 14 keep class sizes in these grades small so the other." mathematics courses, 19 science courses, children can get off on the right foot." The Upper Arlington students also benefit 18 social studies courses and 15 visual arts Reading Recovery Program also is an im from a variety of special programs such as courses from basic photography to com portant offering to Upper Arlington first- DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Educa puter graphics and sound. graders. Children receive personal atten tion), in which UA police officers teach "We give students at Upper Arlington tion in reading development, and teachers fourth-graders drug, alcohol and tobacco High School a great deal of academic op are able to detect and attend to each child's resistance. Students involved in this pro portunity," says principal Paul Martin, needs as they occur. gram also gain respect for law enforce who came to the district in 1993 from Upper Arlington students in kinder ment. Other special programs such as Denver, Colorado. "When I first toured the garten through fifth grade are housed in Talking With Your Students About Alcohol high school, I was impressed with the di five elementary schools, each accredited and A World Of Difference, which teaches versity of academic offerings but also with by the North Central Accreditation Associ respect and appreciation for cultural and the number of advanced placement cours ation.