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Norman Rivkin was CEO and owner of Saf-T-Guard, founded by his parents in 1936. He served in the United States Army during the World War II.

Amateur photographer Chaplain George D. Rice was born in Brighton, Massachusetts, on January 23rd, 1861, married on February 25th, 1883 to Elizabeth Fells, with no children, and educated at Tufts College. He was a chaplain of the 6th Massachusetts Volunteers in the Spanish-American War in 1898, and was appointed a first lieutenant in the 26th Regiment, United States Volunteers, organized to serve in the Philippine Islands, July 5th, 1899. He served the 27th Infantry Regiment, one of the ten new Regular Army regiments authorized for the Philippine-American War, organized on February 2, 1901. Chaplain Rice served at the battle of Bayan (May 2, 1902) ministering to the sick and wounded. He documented the assault on the cotta of the Sultan of Bacolod on April 6, 1903, known as the Battle of Bacolod, Philippines, with his Kodak Brownie camera, and turned it into a souvenir booklet for sale at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.

Rice was cited for heroism in the Spanish-American War.

In addition to her woman's club activities Plant served as assistant to the Deerfield (Moraine) Township supervisor, William W. Steele.

Charlotte (Lottie) Pinkerton Blazer (1879-1966) was born to missionaries in South Africa and spent her earliest years in Wisconsin. As a young woman at the beginning of the 20th century, Pinkerton attended the Art Institute of Chicago and worked as a lantern slide colorist. She worked in California and founded the Santa Cruz Art League after her 1914 marriage to lawyer James Blazer. Pinkerton’s work can also be found at the Autry Museum of the American West, Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and in other collections.

Pike attended one year at Elm Place School in Highland Park, Illinois, 1927-1928. According to his daughter Terri, Pike gave a speech at the 1928 graduation and attributed, in part, achievements in later life to a "good start under the tutelage of Jesse Lowe Smith."
Pike was highly involved in Elm Place alumni activities throughout his life.