1.
GV PROCESSION
0.05

2.
GTV BRASS BAND
0.08

3.
LV DRUM MAJORETTES
0.12

4.
LV PROCESSION WITH GLENN AND WIFE IN F/G.
0.21

5.
SV GLENN AND WIFE WAVE TO CROWD FROM OPEN CAR
0.25

6.
STV DITTO
0.31

7.
REAR V..PROCESSION
0.38

8.
GV SIGN "WELCOME HOME BUD"
0.41

9.
LV GLENN WALKS UP TO DAIS AT MUSKINGHAM COLLEGE (S.O.F. STARTS APPLAUSE).
0.45

10.
REAR PAN..DITTO
0.50

11.
GTV CROWD APPLAUDING.
0.54

12.
LV GLENN KISSES WIFE
1.05

13.
CU GLENN, S.O.F. CROWD CHANTING
1.09

14.
GTV CROWD CHANTING
1.11

15.
CU GLENN S.O.F. STARTS.."I AM SURE GLAD THAT I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THAT GANG "S.O.F. ENDS.
1.18

16.
GTV CROWD CLAPPING
1.20

17.
SV GLENN (S.O.F. IN: "AND INCIDENTALLY WHEN ALL OF YOU LEAVE, I WANT YOU TO CLEAN UP MY GYMNASIUM VERY GOOD". S.O.F. ENDS).
1.29

18.
GTV AUDIENCE LAUGHING AND CLAPPING
1.32



Initials DR/N/MGT/BB M/N/MGT/FW


EDITORS: TURN UP S.O.F. AFTER 25 1/2 FEET.

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Background: LT-COLONEL JOHN GLENN, THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT WHO CIRCLED THE WORLD THREE TIMES IN HIS SPACE CAPSULE, "FRIENDSHIP 7" ON FEBRUARY 20, HAS BEEN HAILED AS A NATIONAL HERO BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, HONOURED IN WASHINGTON D.C.., AND FETED IN NEW YORK, PERHAPS THE MOST HEART WARMING WELCOME AWAITED HIM WHEN HE RETURNED TO HIS HOME TOWN, NEW CONCORD, OHIO, ON MARCH 3.

THE ENTIRE POPULATION TURNED OUT TO CHEER THE ASTRONAUT AND HIS WIFE, ANNIE, AS THEY DROVE THROUGH THE STREETS OF THE TOWN WHERE THEY WERE BOTH BORN AND RAISED. "BUD" GLENN AS HE WAS CALLED IN NEW CONCORD, MET HIS WIFE AT THE LOCAL SCHOOL. IT WAS WHILE ATTENDING NEARBY MUSKINGHAM COLLEGE THAT HE INTERRUPTED HIS STUDIES TO JOIN THE U.S. MARINES, TO BEGIN A CAREER THAT TOOK HIM FROM PILOT TO JET PILOT, FROM TEST PILOT TO ASTRONAUT.

AS GLENN AND HIS WIFE DROVE DOWN MAIN STREET, PRECEDED BY DRUM MAJORETTES AND BANDS FROM THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL, CROWDS WHO HAD FLOCKED INTO THE LITTLE TOWN GLOWED THE PROCESSION TO A CRAWL, AND GAVE THE COUPLE PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY TO WAVE PERSONAL GREETINGS TO MANY FAMILIAR FACES.

AT THE GYMNASIUM AT MUSKINGHAM COLLEGE, THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED THAT THE ASSEMBLY HALL WOULD BE CALLED "THE JOHN GLENN GYMNASIUM". THEN THE ASTRONAUT JOKED (S.O.F.) WITH THE CROWD PACKING EVERY AVAILABLE SPACE IN THE HALL.