Glen Gale ’63

Glen Gale ’63, Ph.D., died on January 30 at his home near Litchfield, Connecticut. At Dartmouth he majored in Spanish, lettered in swimming, was a member of the Spanish Club, worked for WDCR, and was a brother of Alpha Theta. He attended a foreign study program at Salamanca, Spain, in 1961. After Dartmouth, during his first year of a graduate program at Brown, Glen received and accepted an offer to teach Spanish at Dartmouth for the 1964 academic year. When that teaching year ended, Glen pivoted to Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his master’s and Ph.D. in Romance languages and literature. He then took a teaching position at the University of Michigan, where he received awards as a successful teacher. As an adjunct to his teaching, Glen founded a study abroad program that was an international business involving summer study and academic year programs in several European locations, Nairobi, and Moscow. A highlight was the establishment of a successful program in Moscow with the Pushkin Institute of Russian Languages. In time, geopolitics raised the risks for the program; Glen sold it and started a new career in real estate development, eventually owning properties in Michigan, California, Nevada, and Florida. In retirement he moved to Washington Depot, Connecticut, where he continued his favorite hobby—fishing. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Sharyn; four boys (including Jonathan ’97); and six grandchildren.