Glenn Dunagan '33
Date of birth: June 25, 1909
Date of death: April 10, 1939
Age: 29
Lucky Bag
From the 1933 Lucky Bag:
GLENN LEWIS DUNAGAN
Deming, New Mexico
"Duke" "Dunny"
SOME few years ago a little border town in southern New Mexico lost a promising young cow-hand. For Glenn Dunagan up and left to seek his fortune in the world. Successively a cow-puncher, railroad "braky," student in the University of Colorado, locomotive fireman, flying cadet in the Army, sailor, and midshipman, Glenn seems to have had a varied life since he said goodbye to the desert. He finally cast his lot with the Navy, though even now we are not so sure of his continued presence. Academics will never stop him—but those dreams, oh those dreams! His favorite one is the founding of a gymnosophistic Utopia on a South Sea Island, where to eat, to sleep, to love, to live constitute the reg-book. To Glenn the aimless material strife of modern existence is all futility. Stoop not to drudgery, forget your troubles, be true to your instincts, fear not to live life in all its extremities!—here is what makes the wheels go round in that independent brain. He is fond of books and music, likes to write—even hopes some day to be an author. Perhaps those dreams will not be so unattainable after all for its the life in the mind that matters.
Football 4, 3, 1; Class Wrestling 3; Class Boxing 1; Class Swimming 2; 2 P.O.
Loss
From Fold3:
While engaged in authorized and required flight in connection with gunnery work, SBU-1 airplane crashed, exploded and burned, at about 10.07 a.m., 10 April 1939, near Del Mar, Calif.:
- Lieut, (jg) Glenn Lewis Dunagan, U.S.N.
- Lieut, (jg) Thompson Clyde Guthrie, Jr., U.S.N.
The two were members of Scouting Squadron (VS) 2. Glenn had only recently earned his wings as a qualified naval aviator on December 22, 1938.
Career
Glenn graduated on June 1, 1933 with his classmates, but he was not commissioned until August 29, 1935, when he was "Appointed in accordance with act of Aug. 29, 1935" (from Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps of 1936).
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Thompson Guthrie, Jr. '34 was also lost in this crash.
Memorial Hall Error
Glenn is not listed with his classmates in Memorial Hall.
He was identified through the diligent efforts of Leslie Poche, a volunteer who combed through Shipmate issues to find operational losses not accounted for in Memorial Hall.
Class of 1933
Harold is one of 38 members of the Class of 1933 on Virtual Memorial Hall.
