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It was a pleasure meeting you - we’re so glad you were able to make it out to Portland to speak with our group. They absolutely LOVED you (not surprising!) The evaluation form feedback was fantastic - for your keynote, 4.78 (out of 5) and the breakout rated a 4.86 (also out of 5). Awesome job!

Laura Doak, Marketing Events Coordinator, Unicru

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Barbara, you deliver a very powerful message, stimulating both one's mind and one's heart. Our employees not only learned from the experience, they walked away with new ideas and simple methods for regenerating spirit in the workplace and at home. You left them energized and motivated, and ready to take on the world.

Wendy J. Bailey, Coordinator, Hospital Administration, University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics

Charlie's Memorial

Charles William Glanz
October 11, 1943 - May 10, 2000

In Loving Memory

Dear Friends,
We want to share with you, our precious friends and family, some of the many words of comfort we received from dear friends worldwide in response to Charlie's suffering. So many lessons for living are contained in these words that perhaps one day in the midst of struggles of your own, you may be better able to feel God's presence as a result. May this be Charlie's final gift to us all, the legacy of love he leaves behind in all those who were touched in some way by his life. Praise God that he is now in the land of the living!

With love and deep gratitude,
Barbara, Garrett, Ashley, Gavin, Gretchen, Randy, and Erin
May 13, 2000

The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Deuteronomy 31:8

Charles William Glanz

• Charlie was born on October 11, 1931, in Chicago, Illinois, to Henry and Margaret Glanz. He had two sisters, Katie and Margie, and two brothers, Henry and John.
• A die-hard Cubs fan, one of the highlights of his early years was when, as a young boy, he got to be a substitute bat boy for the visiting team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, at a home Cubs game.
• He was a paratrooper in the 11th Airborne Division and in the 187th Regimental Combat Team in the Korean War. While he was in the service, he was the starting pitcher for the Airborne Division. He pitched a winning game against Bob Buehl, who went on to the Major Leagues.
• He had a try-out as a pitcher for the Milwaukee Braves in the 1950's while attending Chicago Teacher's College.
• He was a policeman for the Chicago Park District and went on to become a plainclothes detective for the Chicago Police Force. During his time as a Park District police officer, he was one of the first people on the scene at the Our Lady of the Angels school fire in 1958 and helped a number of children escape.
• In the early 1960's he worked for Hilton Hotels, managing Marina City restaurants in Chicago, the President's Walk at McCormick Place, and the Viking in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
• 1965 he began with the Chicago American newspaper and finished his career with 30 years in advertising at the Chicago Tribune, where he was the Campbell Award winner in 1989.
• His greatest passions in life were his faith, his family, and golf.
  He is survived by his wife Barbara, his son Garrett, and daughter-in-law
• Ashley, his daughter Gretchen Gawlik and son-in-law Randy, his daughter Erin, his grandson Gavin William Glanz. His son, Gavin Ward Glanz, is with him in Heaven.
  

This is the introduction Barbara wrote to the chapter on "Romantic Gifts" in her new book CARE Packages for the Giving Spirit - Stories of Gifts of Love. The book was Charlie's idea and is dedicated to him. He loved this:

My husband surprises me sometimes. He is not what I would consider a true romantic, but as the years go by, I realize that he is romantic in simple, homey ways. He loves to hold hands and touch. I must admit that sometimes in the past I have been annoyed by this, especially in the middle of the night when he can't sleep or in the middle of a movie or sermon to which I'm intently listening, but more and more, I realize what a comfort and an anchor his touch is for me. I know, without a doubt, that I am loved!

When we first met in the summer of 1964, he was my boss! He was managing Marina City restaurants for the Hilton Corpora-tion, and I had a summer job as cashier and hostess in the coffee shop. I was twenty-one years old, a small town Iowa girl in the city for the first time, and I had just finished my junior year at the University of Kansas. Charlie was thirty-three, a very handsome, well-respected, high-powered manager who'd not only had a tryout with the Milwaukee Braves as a pitcher but who had also been a paratrooper, a plain clothes detective, and a night club manager, so I was immediately dazzled by this suave, experienced man-of-the-world!

In those days he was very romantic. Of course, we had to "date" in secret since the boss was not supposed to fraternize with any of the employees, so we always met at Gus's, a restaurant about a block away. On our first date, after a lovely dinner we drove to the Planetarium and then went wading in Lake Michigan. (He later told me that he had NEVER done that before!) Since our first date was on a Tuesday, we celebrated our "anniversary" every Tuesday from then on. Each week he took me to one of the most exclusive places in Chicago-the London House, Mr. Kelly's, the Showboat Sari-S, the Empire Room. What a fabulously romantic summer I had! However, the end of the story is that after we were married, he never took me to any of those places again...

I have often been envious of other women whose husbands bring them flowers, jewels, and chocolates and surprise them with spontaneous trips to the Orient or nights on the town. And then I think about the constancy of my dear husband-for thirty years of work he came directly home every single night, he has never deceived me in any way, and he has supported me in every endeavor I've attempted over all these years of marriage. What could possibly be more romantic than that?

Charlie's Memorial: continued...