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Topic: Signing history and experience: John Glenn
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BMacKinnon
Member Posts: 230
From: Waterford, MI. USA
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 04-26-2015 10:57 AM
   
I just attended an event this past Friday at Ohio State University where there was a ribbon cutting for the renamed John Glenn College of Public Affairs. Senator Glenn was there with his wife Annie. He was one of the speakers and Annie cut the ribbon. He appears in good health but frail. He had assistance walking to and from the podium. After the event he was escorted right to a vehicle. I saw that he kindly signed a helmet for one person and the body of a rocket for another but that was it and away he was driven off. He advised the two gentleman with the items that he couldn't guarantee the quality of the signatures. I do concur that with his eyesight in poor condition and his frail health that he probably won't be signing much more and I believe that might have been his last public appearance. |
Dooku1996
Member Posts: 69
From: Terre Haute, IN 47805
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted 04-26-2015 02:17 PM
I just met Senator Glenn at the Ribbon Cutting event Friday. As mentioned in the post before mine he signed a helmet for someone. I was able to get a photo taken with him before he was rushed away in his car. I will treasure that photo always. I do not own a Glenn autograph, and I desire to have my copy of his book signed. Will he still sign it if I send it to Page Hall? Thanks! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-26-2015 02:36 PM
As noted, Senator Glenn is no longer signing through the mail. Here is the message being returned by his office: It has become necessary for Senator Glenn to discontinue his practice of signing photos and other memorabilia sent to him. It's not possible now to accommodate the significant number of requests due to his very limited office schedule. We are in the process of returning unsigned any items recently sent. |
Skyguy48
Member Posts: 142
From: Scotland
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 04-27-2015 05:46 PM
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Originally posted by AlanC:
I received my photo signed by Senator Glenn...
I think we were probably the last group to receive a John Glenn signature. I got my Mercury photo back in February. |
18blue78
Member Posts: 126
From: UK
Registered: Aug 2013
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posted 04-28-2015 07:31 AM
I will always treasure the autograph I received from him only a few months ago. But now I realise how fortunate I was to also be in, what is looking like, the last group to have items signed. |
AlanC
Member Posts: 147
From: Scotland
Registered: Nov 2014
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posted 04-28-2015 02:41 PM
I've just bought a copy of Senator Glenn's memoirs; really looking forward to reading it. He just seems to have made every day of his life count for something. |
Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
From:
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 12-11-2016 01:35 AM
My favorite autograph of John Glenn's was a cardboard shoulder-length cutout of him from his autobiography. When I left him he was discussing flying with another pilot who just wanted to talk, gave him a magazine, which I hope he got signed for himself, but left the two of them alone to discuss...Perhaps others would like to share their favorite autograph from John Glenn. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 12-11-2016 10:51 AM
It's the photo from the "John Glenn American Hero" press kit, already posted here. To my surprise, someone else has that photo signed (and he thought my photo was his!)It's my favorite because I seem to see the same Glenn photos signed. It's different and has both Mercury and the Shuttle. |
Grounded!
Member Posts: 367
From: Bennington, Vermont, USA
Registered: Feb 2011
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posted 12-11-2016 12:06 PM
We have a framed display that has his orange flight suit photo, both mission patches, pictures of both the Mercury and shuttle launches and a Discovery pin. I removed the flight suit photo and sent it to his Ohio State office, where he nicely signed and personalized it to my wife and I. The display was put back together and has been hanging on our wall ever since. If I remember correctly, we purchased this item from one of the TV shopping networks after his last flight. Perhaps not really collectible, but it is very special to us since he was kind enough to sign it. |
Neil DC
Member Posts: 140
From: Middletown, NJ, USA
Registered: May 2010
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posted 12-11-2016 09:23 PM
Back in 2003, I went down to Washington DC for an event where John and Annie Glenn were supposed to appear. It was a memorial for another statesman who had recently passed. They did indeed show up and after the event finished they graciously stayed to talk with people and sign autographs. There were only two or three of us collecting autographs. I think I had several books related to him and a few pics. He kindly signed everything for us all and posed for photos. Annie Glenn was a class act too. I managed to spend a little time talking to her. I asked her about all the historic people they had met over the years. She said that John and her would reminisce and have a laugh and say how lucky they had been. True American heroes and role models for all. I felt privileged to have been there. |
astro-nut
Member Posts: 946
From: Washington, IL
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 12-12-2016 10:59 AM
Never got to meet John Glenn, but he did autograph a couple of items I sent to him. A true American Hero!! |
DSeuss5490
Member Posts: 299
From: Columbus, Ohio USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 12-13-2016 10:15 AM
John and Annie Glenn were a very visible part of the Columbus, Ohio community. It was not uncommon to see them out and about at the grocery store, ice cream shop or their favorite restaurant, Bob Evans. They never attempted "incognito" and were always very accommodating to their admirers when approached for photos or even autographs. |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1397
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 12-13-2016 11:03 PM
How typical of them. I hope Annie is as well as she can be. That kind (and find) of love and devotion ... lost for words. |
SpaceyInMN
Member Posts: 355
From: Andover, MN
Registered: Dec 2013
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posted 12-14-2016 06:51 PM
I'm so very heartbroken for Annie. While John Glenn was my first astronaut autograph, it's not about me. He was so much bigger than any of us could have been. I'm so torn with his passing. Obviously, it had to happen someday, but it's still a terrible loss. |
woodg2
Member Posts: 133
From: Madison AL
Registered: Feb 2010
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posted 05-24-2017 03:47 AM
Almost four years ago I sent an STS-95 crew litho to John Glenn's office at OSU hoping to get it signed. It never came back and I have since moved three times (active duty military). Today I was sitting at my desk and got a call out of the blue from a complete stranger. Apparently he moved into that house after I left and the litho was delivered to him rather than being forwarded. He has now moved twice since then and just came across the envelope in a box of his belongings. He tracked me down to ask my current address. He told me had opened it, found the litho and wanted to make sure it got to its rightful owner. Believe it or not, I will be getting a Glenn through-the-mail litho in the mail later this week! |
Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
From:
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 05-24-2017 03:48 AM
So happy to hear of your late discovery. |
Daniel Lazecky
Member Posts: 480
From: Czech Republic-Europe
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 05-24-2017 03:49 AM
I also congratulate you very much. This is a story that catches the heart as well. That's what I love on this hobby! |
USNTPS Historian
New Member Posts: 2
From: Patuxent River, MD
Registered: Mar 2017
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posted 05-24-2017 12:57 PM
Just recently I was fortunate enough to get my own John Glenn signature written in 1995. I had a crate of signed lithographs delivered to my office. John Glenn had signed all of them (sorry all are accounted for) but there was an extra John Glenn signature in the crate. The lithographs were wrapped in brown craft paper and when I opened the crate his signature was on the top of the stack on the brown craft paper. Quite a nice surprise. |
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