50 years public service
Security captain celebrates
By Roman McCloskey
Of the Emerald
Today Capt. Oakley Glenn, director of Cam
pus Security, celebrates a 50 year law enforce
ment career that has taken him to faraway places
such as Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and
Singapore. But he’s protected the public closer to
home at Hood River and of course Eugene. Glenn,
at 70 years old, is obviously not a typical career
man who found a comfortable niche to dig roots
in early in life.
Glenn began his career in 1935 on a Marine
Corps assignment in Guam. Fourteen years later,
Glenn came to work for the Eugene Police Depart
ment. At the EPD he established and commanded
the scientific crime lab, which attempts to iden
tify criminals by examining evidence left at the
scene of a crime. Glenn came to the University in
1970, and since then he has helped many
students deal with the psychological trauma of
being crime victims.
‘Before he hit the scene, they (the University)
didn't have a security department per se. Now it’s
respected throughout the state," said Richard
Tanner, associate director of Campus Security
since 1972. "A lot of other organizations are pat
terned after us.”
To help stem crime, Glenn has stationed
emergency intercoms along the main pedestrian
routes on campus. The intercoms are large
metallic posts that resemble fire hydrants and
have "push to talk” printed on them.
"We’re the only school 1 know of that has a
direct intercom system. Other schools have
phones (that relay emergency messages through
switchboards), but those are subject to vandalism.
Our intercoms are vandal proof and weather
proof,’’Glenn said.
*Even though you’re meeting
people under adverse condi
tions, you can lend that little ex
tra helping hand that makes a
difference in peoples’ lives. ’
— Capt. Oakley Glenn
Another program implemented under
Glenn’s tenure is the free escort service for
students begun this fall by Campus Security in
conjunction with University Housing. Currently,
security officers escort between 950 and 1,000
students a month.
Glenn says he tries to take an optimistic ap
proach to what could be a negative environment
CAMPUS
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Capt. Oakley Glenn
where he daily works with the victims of a variety
of crimes. “I like to have a little fun every day,”
he said.
“Even though you’re meeting people under
adverse conditions, you can lend that little extra
helping hand that makes a difference in peoples*
lives,” he added. “You can make your outlook a
positive one that’ll help the situation.”
Glenn recalled an incident when an elderly
woman recognized him and thanked him for
helping her and her husband cope with the
burglarizing of their home.
Glenn didn’t remember the investigation, but
the woman addressed him as “sergeant.” Since
he hadn’t held that rank for 25 years, he figured it
had been awhile.
After many years of travel, Glenn came to
Eugene and decided to settle down. "I’m going to
put down roots. I'm going to stay, and this is go
ing to be my home,” he said.
Now content and settled with his family in
Eugene, Glenn can reminisce about his overseas
adventures, one of which found him following
Marco Polo’s route along the Grand Canal in
China.
With an aerial photograph of Eugene behind
him and the University prominently circled,
Glenn is convincing when he says, "I enjoy work
ing at the University of Oregon. I enjoy my con
tacts with students. They’re the reason I’m here.”
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