IN MEMORIAM 



GLENN I. TENNEY 



When Glenn I. Tennej' of Des Moines became a member of 

 the Iowa Academy of Science at the 27th annual meeting in 

 1913, he was, as far as the writer knows, the youngest member 

 the Academy has ever had on its list. In the preceding sum- 

 mer he had attended the Macbride Lakeside Laboratory at Lake 

 Okoboji. When he presented himself for admission the direc- 

 tor was naturally hesitant for here was a boy who had just 

 completed his second year in the high school while the classes 

 were made up quite largely of college graduates. His proba- 

 tionary admission, however, was not a mistake, and he soon won 

 the admiration of everyone by his enthusiasm and untiring in- 

 dustry. Early and late he collected hand specimens of the 

 boulders about the lake, he tramped to far away swamps for 

 shells, he broke up limestone boulders by the hour for fossils; 

 minerals, rocks, mollusc shells, leaves, flowers, and so forth, 

 he collected in profusion and it was more than a boyish whim 

 for he arranged and labelled them, he learned them, he asked 

 questions all day long. Few acquired more knowledge there 

 that summer and to none did it come with greater freshness 

 and pleasure. 



Upon finishing high school he entered Greenville College, 

 Illinois, and a year later he matriculated at the University of 

 Chicago where he specialized in chemistry and geology. At 

 the close of his junior j^ear, in June, 1917, he entered the em- 

 ploy of the Roxanna Petroleum Company, working for a time in 

 Kentucky but was soon transferred to the Rocky Mountain Di- 

 vision with headquarters at Che^-enne, Wyoming, serving as 

 assistant geologist until May, 1918, when he was made chief 

 geologist in charge of the work in the Laramie Basin, — an 

 unusual responsibility for a young man of t^venty-three years. 

 Because of the importance of this work he was placed on the 

 deferred list by the draft board, but he resigned in October 

 and entered the Naval Aviation Branch of this service. While 



