History of Pinup Calendars Featuring Photographs of Female College Students enrolled at The Ohio State University

History of Pinup Calendars Featuring Photographs of Female College Students enrolled at The Ohio State University

Before 1982

Various calendars featuring Ohio State University females that are published for years by fraternities, and an assortment of individuals.

1983

Believe it or not, three OSU students, Cary Gregory, Jim Kargiotis and Tim Brown publish "The Dogs of OSU" Calendar.

1989

Petrovich releases "Women of the Scarlet & Gray: Legends" 1990 calendar in black & white.

June 1990

Petrovich, photographers and models travel to St. Petersburg, Florida to photograph the 1991 "Women of the Scarlet & Gray" calendar.

Sept. 1990

Petrovich releases the full color 1991 "Women of the Scarlet & Gray" calendar. The Columbus Dispatch reports that several of the female models in the female edition are not enrolled at OSU and two are high school teenagers.

1991

Playboy magazine selects four students from the 1991 "Women of the Scarlet & Gray" calendar to appear in its annual Girls of the Big Ten issue.

1991

Petrovich releases the full color 1992 "Women of the Scarlet & Gray" calendar with 100 percent Ohio State students, including Football Coach John Cooper's daughter, Cindy Cooper. The calendar was photographed in Key West, Florida.

1992

Petrovich releases the 1993 "Women of the Scarlet & Gray."

1993

A Columbus modeling agency called L'Esprit Models publishes the 1994 "Scarlet & Gray Calendar: Ladies Edition," photographed in Key West.

Aug 1999

Petrovich prints, but does not release; a 2000 calendar titled "Scarlet & Gray Girls."

Aug 1999

The Ohio State University files a lawsuit in Federal Court claiming "Scarlet & Gray Girls" infringed on their claim to an unregistered trademark because the decades old song "Buckeye Battle Cry" contains the words "Scarlet & Gray" in its lyrics and some of the calendar's photos depicted females in OSU team-issued athletic uniforms. Petrovich allows the university to destroy all copies of the "Scarlet & Gray Girls" Calendar.

Sept. 1999

Petrovich re-shoots three photos and releases "Campus Girls: Final Edition" as a replacement for his shredded calendar which becomes his last calendar of female students.

When Sean Petrovich set out to become a successful collegiate entrepreneur, he instead accidentally discovered his talents behind the camera to be an ability to create incredible images of beautiful women and guys.

He is credited with being the first to successfully market a calendar featuring OSU students with high quality, and full-color photos statewide and now nationally.

Before Sean tried his hand at it, calendars of students had appeared at OSU without any consistency throughout the years. Calendars of OSU guys and girls became a perennial staple in the Ohio calendar market. Sean reports that eager Buckeye fans telephone him each year before the calendars are printed to obtain copies. Every year, he receives more and more inquiries from stores around the nation about carry his calendars. New fans also call to obtain a copy after hearing of these popular calendars from friends.

When Playboy photographer David Chan visited OSU to photograph the "Women of the Big Ten" pictorial, he deemed the OSU calendars as being the best collegiate calendar in the nation.

He has published 16 calendars featuring a total of 184 students.