Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1911 — RENSSELAER YOUNG HAN MAY GO TO INDIA. [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER YOUNG HAN MAY GO TO INDIA.

Glenn Wishard Offered General Secretaryship of Y. M. C. A. in City In Far Away Country. Glenn Wishard, son of Mrs. Jennie Wishard, of this city, who graduated several years ago. from Northwestern University, where he took the theological course, has just been offered and will probably accept the general secretaryship of the Y. M. C. A. work in either Calcutta or Madras, India. After his graduation he took up Y. M. C. A. work and for some time was stationed at St. Paul, Minn. Several months ago he returned to Chicago and is now in charge of the juvenile protective association movement in connection with the Hull House work in^Chicago. The offer to him came very unexpectedly, and as Mrs. Wishard was in California visiting her parents, Jhe has as yet had no opportunity to talk it over with her. He has decided to accept the position, subject to his wife’s approval and the approval of their physician. It seems to Glenn to be a fine opportunity for the accomplishment of great good and it is this fact that makes him desire to accept it. If they go, their trip will be made across the Atlantic, with a few days’ stop in England, thence by boat throught the Straits of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and the Suez Canal and across the Arabian Sea. The start will be made about the last of October and they will arrive in Madras about Dec. Ist / Glenn’s present work calls him to a conference at Lake George lasting from Sept. 2nd to 4th, and another at Northfleld from the sth to Bth. After his return to Chicago his mother plans to spend a few days there visiting her sons, Mel and Glenn and other members of the family will also gather there if he has at that time decided positively on accepting the call.

Rensselaer people will many of them remember Glenn Wishard, although he has not been here much for a number of years. Some ten years ago- he Worked as a porter at the Nowels hotel, while acquiring an. education to fit him for admission to college. He is only about 28 years'of age and the honor of being offered the position is quite a distinguished one.