Mary Jane Glass

Mary Jane and her husband, Robert, have lived in their Cleveland Park home since 1992. They raised four daughters here, including teaching them to drive backing out onto busy 34th Street. She has been a volunteer with Cleveland Park Church, the Friends of the Cleveland Park Library, John Eaton, and the Cleveland Park Citizens Association. She has also served terms on the board of the Cleveland Park Historical Society, during the first of which she initiated a neighborhood garden tour.

Over the years Mary Jane and Robert have met several former residents of their home, which was a rental group home for many decades. One family during WWII had four children and also rented a room to a single man. In the wild 1960s they mostly seemed to be smoking pot and going to demonstrations on the Mall. One family who rented the house after theirs was burned in a fire discovered a homeless man one day who had been living in the attic for several months. There aren't too many group houses in Cleveland Park these days, and perhaps it is for the best.