| Glenn spent 1968-1970 teaching in the Religious Studies department at the University of Virginia and finishing his thesis for Oxford University. In 1970 he came to Indiana University South Bend to teach History and Religious Studies. In this photo he is holding his daughter Anna Grace, who was born in 1969. |
| A photograph from the air of the downtown area of South Bend, Indiana, taken not too long ago. You can see one of the bridges across the St. Joseph river at the very bottom of the photo. Some of these buildings had not yet been built when Glenn first arrived in 1970. |
| Indiana University South Bend is situated on the banks of the St. Joseph river, a mile upstream from downtown South Bend. In this photo you can see the university library sticking up above the trees (in the center) and a corner of Northside Hall over on the right. |
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The photo above is of a protest march against the Vietnam war that took place at Indiana University South Bend in the Spring of 1970, not too long before Glenn arrived to begin teaching there.
It is said that the young woman dressed in dark clothes (front center) was Alice Wolfson, the daughter of Lester Wolfson, who was the Chancellor of the University. |
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Alice's father, Chancellor Wolfson, is the one in the center in this humorous photo taken about that time. The men on either side are the Dean of Faculties on the left and the chief financial officer for the university on the right.
I would suspect that the words at the bottom of the photo -- "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" -- came from some wry comment by Chancellor Wolfson. He was an expert in the English poetry of the Romantic era, who had published some very nice articles, and could have developed a considerable reputation as a scholar had he not been thrust at a young age into becoming the Chancellor of the campus. But Lester served in that post for many years, and under his leadership the South Bend campus became one of the three top campuses in Indiana University's eight-campus system in terms of the quality of the faculty and programs. |
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Glenn is standing in the center in this photo holding his son Ben, who was born on July 5, 1974. The old photo was very faded, and this is the best that can be done to restore it.
Glenn's father (Glenn Sr.) is on the left. He was Chairman of the Art Department at Middle Georgia College. The house he built in Cochran looked down from a hillslope on the pine woods which can be seen in the background. You could smell the fragrance of the pine trees and the pine needles on the ground the minute you walked out of the house. Glenn's younger brother John is the figure on the right. |
| This is the house Glenn and his first wife were living in when Ben was born in 1974. It was on Marquette Avenue, only three blocks from where he is living now. It was in very bad shape when he bought it, but he spent many months painting and plastering and doing repair work. |
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The house on Marquette Avenue is one block north of the St. Joseph river, in the first block to the west of U.S. 31. The house stands at roughly the same spot where the French fur trading post was located when the first Europeans settled here.
The red star at the center of the map marks the house on Parkovash Avenue where Glenn lives today. "Parkovash" is a garbled version of the French parc aux vaches, which means cow pasture. This was where the French fur trader pastured his cows. The University of Notre Dame, known to all fans of American college football, lies five blocks northeast. That is the large grey area at the upper righthand corner of the map). |
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The Leeper Park bridge lies just south of where Glenn lives. It carries U.S. 31 (the old Dixie Highway, known as Michigan Street in South Bend) across the St. Joseph river. This photo is taken from the park on the south bank.
Dixie Highway, which goes all the way down to Florida, was one of the earliest proper automobile highways built to cross the United States from one border to the other. |