Glen H. C. Perry ’26

Glen Perry died June 9, 1996, at Millcroft, a retirement community near Newark, Del. He was the son of Lawrence Perry '08.

Glen was born in Bloomfield, N.J., and attended school in Glen Ridge and later at Lawrenceville, where he played on the baseball team. At Princeton he was a member of the Banjo Club and the university band. After graduation Glen was a reporter for the New York Sun. In 1936-37 he was also yachting editor for the New Yorker. In 1937 the Sun assigned him to Washington as assistant bureau chief, and when war came he became a war correspondent. Glen wrote Dear Bart: Washington Views of WWII, a war memoir, as well as two other books and many articles.

Glen married Sylvia Louise Wallau in 1937. In 1944 he began a 24-year career with DuPont, first as assistant director of public relations, then director, becoming a national leader in the field of public relations. Glen was on the boards of the Wilmington Music School and the Children's Bureau of Delaware.

Glen was our class secretary for nine years and president from 1976-81. He received the Class Council Award in 1986.

Glen is survived by Sylvia, their son, Christopher '61, and two grandchildren, to all of whom we extend our profound sympathy.

The Class of 1926