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Clinton Clair Glenn Jr.

The former Brown Memorial Presbyterian pastor helped establish educational and charitable facilities

February 11, 2009|By Frederick N. Rasmussen , fred.rasmussen@baltsun.com

Mr. Glenn also was the driving force behind the establishment of the Brown Memorial tutoring program, Bolton Hill Nursery and a Meals on Wheels program that operated out of the church's kitchen.

In 1973, he founded The Learning Place, a program for selected children from Eutaw Marshburn Elementary School on Eutaw Place.

Bernard J. "Bernie" Wulff, a retired Baltimore architect, was a longtime active member of Brown Memorial and a friend of Mr. Glenn's.

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"He was a very strong individual who didn't pull any punches," recalled Mr. Wulff. "His preaching style was very intellectual and scholarly. It gave meaning to what was recorded in the Bible."

In 1975, Mr. Glenn was called to be pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Mount Vernon, N.Y.

From 1978 to 1984, Mr. Glenn struggled with a gradual loss of faith and entered a two-year pastoral counseling program at Blanton Peale Psychoanalytic Program in Manhattan.

"I thought it would energize my ministerial life and at the same time equip me to be a better counselor," he wrote in his recently completed autobiography.

Mr. Glenn retired from First Presbyterian Church of Mount Vernon in 1990 and established a psychotherapy practice in Manhattan.

In addition, he became associated with the Redford Group, later BellRedfordGlenn, where he did psychometrics and career counseling.

After BellRedfordGlenn dissolved, Mr. Glenn and his wife established the International Center for Management Education Inc., which they operated until 1999.

After Mr. Glenn's wife of 47 years, the former Lucille Nott, died in 2001, he remained in New York City until moving to his daughter's home in Bethesda. The next year, he moved into Ms. McIntosh's Lutherville home.

Her husband, Francis Eugene "Gene" Belt, who died in 2001, had been Brown Memorial's organist for many years.

Mr. Glenn enjoyed reading, listening to jazz and traveling to New York City and Tuscany, where he lived several months each year.

A memorial service for Mr. Glenn will be held at 2 p.m. March 7 at his former church, Park and Lafayette avenues.

Also surviving are a son, David J. Glenn of Hawks, Mich.; a daughter, Cynthia D. Souza of Bethesda; two brothers, David Glenn of Conneaut, Pa., and Jim Glenn of Fort Wayne, Ind.; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

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