B.S., Arizona State University M.A., Arizona State University J.D., Western State University Ph.D. St. Louis University
John Glen was appointed to the faculty in the fall of 1995. Having been an athletic coach and a visiting faculty member in the History Department on several different occasions over the past years, his is a familiar face on the Principia College campus. Dr. Glen has also taught at Lewis and Clark Community College, Maryville University, Troy State University, and Enterprise Community College. Recently he presented papers at the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, and at the University of Tennessee on General William T. Sherman's attitudes on Freedom of the Press. This paper was one of 25 selected from over 150 possible to be published as part of a book called The Civil War and the Press by the University of Tennessee. Dr. Glen has also enjoyed a rewarding career spanning fourteen years as a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Forest Service, involved in the control and suppression of wildland and forest fires. Dr. Glen's Ph.D. dissertation examined the concept of historic memory as it related to the Pearl Harbor air raid, and one particular actor in that drama--Lt. Kermit Tyler.
