This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kEZ.2ACEB/3 Message Board Post: Portsmouth Herald (NH) Charles A. Glenday NASHUA — Charles A. Glenday, 76, of 22 Hunt St., died early Thursday morning, Feb. 28, 2002, at St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua, following a brief illness. Mr. Glenday was born in Winchendon, Mass., on March 2, 1925, son of the late Austin and Catherine (Dunn) Glenday. He resided in Troy, N.H., during his youth and came to Nashua in 1957, residing first on Broad Street and later on Cabot Drive. In 1984, Mr. Glenday moved to North Hampton and then lived in Stratham from 1993 to 1995 when he returned to Nashua. Mr. Glenday began his career in 1950 as a science teacher, when Alvirne High School opened in Hudson, N.H. He was promoted to assistant principal and served from 1951 to 1953. He was principal of the Webster School in 1953-54, and principal of Alvirne High School from 1954 to 1955. He then joined Sanders Associates and held several senior management positions, including corporate manager of administrative services and assistant to the president. In 1977, Mr. Glenday was appointed corporate manager of public affairs, and in 1980 was named corporate vice president of Public Affairs. He retired from Sanders in March 1987. Very active in civic affairs, Mr. Glenday served as president and chairman of the Southern New Hampshire Association of Commerce and Industry of Nashua; was president of the Nashua Chamber of Commerce in 1969; served on the board of directors of the Nashua Chamber of Commerce from 1968 to 1971, and then was chairman for three terms from 1981 to 1986. Mr. Glenday was chairman of the Nashua Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner in 1973 and served on its annual dinner committee from 1971 to 1984. Mr. Glenday was commissioner of the Nashua Police Commission from 1980 to 1981, and was chairman of the Nashua Housing Authority from 1976 to 1980. For many years, he was involved in education, serving as chairman of the board of trustees of Alvirne High School in Hudson; a member of the board of trustees at St. Michael's College in Colchester Vt.; chairman of NH Vocational Technical College board of trustees in Nashua; a member of the American Association of Secondary School Principals; and a member of the N.H. Elementary Principals Association. He also served as director of the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire in Concord from 1975 to 1980; was director of the New England Council in Boston from 1957 to 1979; was a member of the American Electronics Association of Washington, D.C.; and a member of the Good Roads Association of Concord. He held memberships in the National and New Hampshire Education Associations was a past president of the Hudson Teachers Association. Mr. Glenday was a graduate of Troy High School in 1943 and earned a bachelor's degree in education from Keene Teachers College in 1950. He received his masters degree in education from the State Teachers College in Fitchburg, Mass., in 1952 and took graduate courses at the University of New Hampshire. He was an Army veteran, serving during World War II from July 1943 to February 1946. He was a commander of the American Legion in Troy from 1946 to 1950. An avid golfer, Mr. Glenday was a former member of the Wentworth Country Club and the Rockingham Country Club of Newmarket. He had been active in fund raising for the Odyssey House in Hampton and with the Heart Fund in Portsmouth for several years. He was the husband of Maureen (Leger) Glenday, and was predeceased by his former wife, Edith M. (Berk) Glenday, who died in July 1995. In addition to his wife Maureen, survivors include a son, Timothy S. Glenday of Nashua; a daughter-in-law, June S. (Piwowarski) Glenday of Nashua; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Martin J. and Doris Glenday of Onstead, Mich., and William and Maxine Glenday of East Sandwich, N.H.; a sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Ruth E. and Marty R. Dedo of Keene; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. He was predeceased by a son, Charles A. "Buddy" Glenday Jr., who died Dec. 11, 2000.