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Summer 2020 4 P A N P I P E S GRACE NOTES M ember Laureate Adyline Johnson Felsted passed away on May 25, 2020 at the age of 98. She was a 1945 initiate of Phi Chapter at MacPhail College in Minneapolis and was honored as a Member Laureate by Pi Chapter at Drake University in 1957. Adyline attended the University of Minnesota where she completed her Masters Degree in Fine Arts. As an outstanding student and singer at Berkshire Musical Center, under the direction of Serge Koussevitsky and Leonard Bernstein, she performed at Tanglewood. In 1948 she was the winner of the auditions conducted by the Associated Concert Bureau, which brought appearances at Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera. In 1953 Adyline received a Fulbright Scholarship to study voice in Brussels, Belgium. In 1956 she became the Aqua-centennial Ambassadress representing the city of Minneapolis on tour in Scotland, England, and France. In 1954 Adyline started a decade of performing in the Christmas opera of Amahl and the Night Visitors. Here she met her future husband Ken, an accomplished baritone singer, who also had a leading role. He and Adyline were married on June 27, 1957 and enjoyed singing together throughout their lives in other light operas, countless weddings, and at Temple Israel, St Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, and Westminster Presbyterian Church. In the late 1950s Drake University flew Adyline to Des Moines two days a week to teach on contract. She also taught at MacPhail School of Music, Macalester College, and St. Catherine's College. She was a voice coach for the Metropolitan Boys Choir and scores of other accomplished students. She gave many recitals during these years and invited students into her home to share their talents with each other. In the 1970s Adyline could be seen on national TV singing the national anthem for Vikings home games at Met Stadium. As an energetic and positive force, she had an enormous impact on all who knew her. Annie Castor Glenn Passes at Age 100 A nnie Castor Glenn, a 1939 initiate of Alpha Gamma Chapter at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, and the widow of late astronaut John Glenn, died on May 19, 2020. She was 100. Annie graduated Muskingum College in 1942 as an Organ major. She turned down an organ scholarship with Julliard to stay in Ohio with her high school sweetheart John Glenn, then a Second Lieutenant in the Marines, who served in the Marshall Islands during World War II. ey were married for 73 years. She held organ positions when living in El Centro, California and in Guam. Glenn became the first human to orbit the earth in February 1962, and Annie joined him in a New York ticker- tape parade. Annie struggled with a severe stutter, which affected 85% of her words, for most of her life. She overcame it at age 53 following a three- week treatment in 1973 at the Communications Research Institute at Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia. Her success allowed her to speak on numerous occasions during her husband's political campaigns and on her own behalf to speech-therapy organizations. She devoted herself to helping those with a stutter and other communication disabilities for the rest of her life. Annie received the first national award of the American Speech and Hearing Association in 1983; four years later, the group bestowed the first annual Annie Glenn Award for achieving distinction despite a communication disorder to recipient James Earl Jones. She served as an adjunct professor with e Ohio State University Speech Pathology Department, who awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Public Service in 2009 and renamed a street on its campus to Annie and John Glenn Avenue in 2015. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza Glenn greets then-president Barack Obama following an event at The Ohio State University in Columbus in October 2012. Remembering Adyline Johnson Felsted

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