ALUMNI IN FOCUS
Glenn Grube ’57
Uses Computer to Unify
When the chair of his 15th-year reunion resigned a few months before the event, Glenn E. Grube ’57 stepped in.
“I received an emergency call from the alumni office pleading with me to take over as the reunion chair,” he recalls.
Just 19 classmates attended, but Grube achieved great success as chair of
the 20th-year reunion. Then he took things to a higher level.
“Our 25th was the greatest reunion ever held by a class at Lafayette,” he says. “We won all of the most important awards given to a reunion class, and our themed reunions ever since have been well
attended, award-winning, and memorable.”
Last fall, Grube received his second Wilson E. Hughes Award, which honors an effective writer who unifies classmates in support of the
College through the Class Notes column. He has served as class correspondent for 34 years, and since 1982, he and Bob Mueller ’57 have been reunion co-chairs.
“When we graduated in 1957, our class was a rather disparate—not ‘desperate’—group that has become one of the most united,
involved, and supportive classes in the history of the College,” says Grube.
Serving Lafayette borders on a religious experience for Grube, and like a
shepherd, he has gathered classmates back into the fold.
“I received a wonderful education, much of which was realized after
graduation,” he says. “The College gave me the tools to think, create ideas,
and solve problems.”
After graduation, the biology major worked as an educator, retiring as a
superintendent in 1997.
“I never had the income or resources to set up an endowment or donate
the dollars to have a building named in my honor, but the dozens of recognition awards over the years have given me a great sense of satisfaction,” he says. “My volunteerism has been my means of returning to Lafayette some of what Lafayette gave to me.”
Those interested in helping organize their next class reunion should
contact Autumn Leciston Bragg ’90, associate director of alumni affairs,
at (610) 330-5045.
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