1955
By the time you read this Glenn Wilson should be back home! This article, by Ray Fitzgerald, reprinted from The Boston Sunday Globe, tells the. story:
Lee Julian remembers Glenn Wilson well
"Oh, he was a fighter," said Doggie Jul' widow yesterday. "What a temper. He hated" lose, maybe more than anybody I ever rememhin sports. Have you heard anything about himr
As a matter of fact, yes, and nothing has cha ed. He's still a fighter. Wilson, Dartmouth basket ball captain in 1954, shot down in North Vietn and a prisoner of war for five and one-half is coming home.
His wife, Adlyn, said yesterday she's receiver word her husband, an Air Force Major, will be in the third group of released POWs, due in this country sometime in March.
"A friend who had been released called and told me Glen was playing bridge and was in excellen-condition," said Mrs. Wilson who lives with their three children in University City, Tex.,just out side San Antonio.
Wilson, a six-foot guard averaged 11.2 p0ints for Dartmouth in three varsity years, and as a senior, led the team to a 71-64 upset over Tommy Heinsohn and Holy Cross.
He was the most valuable player in a Christmas tournament at the University of Connecticut thai season.
Broadcaster Hot Rod Hundley, a former Laker star, grew up with Wilson in West Virginia.
"I was a sophomore in Charleston when he was a senior in St. Albans," Hundley said yesterday. "At the time he was the best basketball player I'd ever seen. He had a great jump shot. Weplayeda lot of pickup games together at the Charleston YMCA."
Hundley said he wore a POW bracelet becauseof Wilson. "This is the best piece of news I've hadin a long time. I thought he was a goner because Ihadn't heard anything about him for so long."
For a year after her husband was captured. Mrs. Wilson heard nothing from him. He'd been shot down on his last mission, a couple of days before he was due to come home.
"They knew he was alive, because they had ground communications with him for an hour after he crashed," said Mrs. Wilson. "Then they heard him say 'Oh (blank), here they come,' so they knew he'd been captured."
A year to the day from that episode, Mrs. Wilson received a letter with a Brazil postmark. Inside was a brief note from her husband saying he was healthy and telling her not to worry.
"I knew it wasn't written by anyone else because who else knows how to spell Adlyn?" she said.
The letter had been carried from North Vietnam by a Brazilian journalist and mailed from there.
Since then, it's been the familiar POW story - a couple of brief, impersonal letters a year, and the job of mother and father for Mrs. Wilson to the children, Leslie, 14; Linda, 12; and Tom, 10.
Just ahead is the POW question - what will the adjustment be like?
"I suppose it's true that I've had to be self-sufficient while Glen's been away, but don't worry, I'll be happy to let go. I'll be glad to dump the husband's responsibilities right back in his lap and I think he'll be happy to take them."
Wilson has been a career Air Force man, but one of his letters mentioned the possibility of teaching and coaching when he was released.
"I'm real anxious to find out what that means, whether he wants to stay in the service and coach or start a whole new life." Wilson will be 40 years old in March, so it would be quite a present if he got out in time for a life begins at 40 party.
"Everytime the phone rings these days, I think it's the call telling me when Glen's coming. Maybe I'll be nervous when he actually arrives, but I think everything's going to turn out fine.
"I haven't seen a picture of Glen, but I've heard he still has his hair and is still lean and mean. I'm going t0 have t0 brUSh UP on my bridge'" * * * *
Pep Perry has received an outstanding honor. He was elected president of the National Associaof Amateur Oarsmen. Pep was very active with the Dartmouth Rowing Club both as an undergraduate and, later, as a member of the college ministration. He has been an administrator at Kent School, Connecticut, for 12 years. During his entire career there he has coached the crew, one of the finest in the country. They have participated in the Henley Regatta many times and Pep is now U.S. liaison officer to the Regatta. This organization controls all amateur rowing, including U.S. Olympics rowing. Pep will, therefore, also serve on the U.S.Olympic Men's Rowing Committee.
Pep, Fran and their three children live on the school's campus. He is Dean of Boys which means that he runs the entire boys' campus. The girls' campus is a few miles away.
Warren Mansur has been promoted to casualty underwriting manager of the American Policyholders Insurance Company, Wakefield, Mass. He was employed by API in 1959 as an underwriter in the home office and was made regional underwriter in 1963. Since 1968 he has been resident secretary and manager of the New England Regional office. He became a CPCU in 1970. The Mansur family which includes wife Ann plus Holly and . Carol lives on Way Road, Gloucester.
Gene Elsbree, who joined us in this space a year ago upon announcement of his appointment as director of advertising and public relations, The Bank of California, appears again on word of his promotion to vice president. Gene holds membership in more than a few local groups, including the Dartmouth Club of Northern California and Nevada (former president), the San Francisco Commercial Club, the Atherton Civic Interest League, Atherton Little League, American Youth Soccer Organization, and the U.S. Lawn and the Northern California Tennis Associations.
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