Anne Margaret Caster Glenn (1920-2020)
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"Annie Margaret Castor Glenn died today at 100 of COVID-19.
She was born 17 Feb 1920 in Columbus OH, and raised in New Concord. Annie met John Glenn circa nursery school. She was a year older. The families knew each other through social activities. Annie and John were sweethearts in high school, married just after college.
They both attended Muskingum College in town. John studied chemistry, played football, and learned to fly. He dropped out to enlist after the outbreak of WW2. Annie was a music major, and competed in swimming and volleyball. She was offered a scholarship at Julliard but chose to marry and follow John instead.
The next decades were worrying he would come home. From his 57 combat missions in the Marshall Islands, from service in North China, then 90 combat missions in a fighter jet in the Korean War, then fighter jet test pilot, and finally his five-hour flight as the first American astronaut to orbit.
Annie stuttered badly since elementary school. Nevertheless, she found poise and grace as an officer's wife, as a prominent astronaut's wife, as senator's wife, and as the wife of a presidential candidate.
She used her share of the spotlight to draw attention to disability issues. An award is given in her honor for achievement despite communication disorders, the first going to James Earl Jones.
Annie and John were married nearly 74 years at the time of his death 3½ years ago. By all reports, fiercely cleaving to each other throughout. I hope she has joined him beyond the rim."
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Here's more about her stuttering problem and overcoming it.
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@jon-nyc said in Anne Margaret Caster Glenn (1920-2020):
Here's more about her stuttering problem and overcoming it.
"Oh look John, a sq - sq - sq - sq - sq.. ah hell it's gone in a hole now,...."
