Philip Glenn Thompson ’27

Philip Glenn Thompson died Nov. 17, 1996, at the Bethany Lutheran Village in Centerville, Ohio. Glenn came to Princeton from Ripley H.S. in Ripley, Tenn. He was on the varsity wrestling squad and a member of Whig Hall and Cannon Club.

After graduation, he became a reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer. He worked there for 36 years, ending up as the paper's executive editor. In 1959 he became editor of the Dayton, Ohio, Journal Herald. He retired in 1969.

In 1943 he enlisted as a private in the Army Infantry and came out a captain in 1946 after serving in the European theater.

After WWII, Glenn lived in Dayton, Ohio, and became a civic leader. He served as the first president of the Ohio Environmental Council and president of the DaytonMontgomery County Historical Society.

He married Margaret Lee, a Sweetbriar graduate, in 1932. They had no children. To her, the class extends its deep sympathy.

The Class of 1927