Wrinkled Path

Glenna Glee was born Feb. 1, 1918, to Adalaska Ellsworth and Lou Eva Weir, in Anderson, IN, and has lived there all her life. She graduated Anderson High School in 1935 and married Robert Paul Williamson in 1939, with whom she had two sons.. She has one grandson, and three great grandchildren. Her beloved husband died at fifty-two and she remarried four years later to a retired Army Major who died four years later. In her younger years she played organized softball (pitcher) and basketball. She built and flew model airplanes, has been active in Civic Theater, ballroom dancing, and traveled with friends all over the country after the loss of her husbands. She is also a Certified Master Graphoanalyst (Handwriting). She began writing poetry as an eighth grade English assignment, had two poems in her High School Annual, and over the years has amassed tens of thousands of poems. She is the current president of the Indiana State Federation of Poetry Clubs and has served in that capacity several times and was named Poet Laureate of that organization in 1980-81 and again in 2002-04. . She is editor of their newsletter. She was Youth Director for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies for several years and has attended 33 consecutive conventions of that organization. She is a contest winner with her poetry, loves life and lives it to the fullest. Previously, she has published two books of poetry, "As I See It" and "Green Monster" a study in jealousy. She has several smaller chapbooks.