Glenn Jenks:
CLASS OF 1962
Edgewood High SchoolClass of 1962
Edgewood, PA
Glenn's Story
After High School I gradusted from Muskingum College in '66. The day before my graduation I married Nancy "Scottie" Scott (EHS '60). The following fall I started seminary at the Philadelphia Divinity School and graduated with a Masters Degree in '69 and was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church that same year.
After seminary we moved to Aliquippa, PA where I had my first parish from '69 to '74. We then moved to Tucson, AZ in '74 where I had several parishes from '74 to '85. In '82 I decided to get a law degree and in '85 I graduated from the Law School at the Univ. of Az. We then moved to Phoenix where I practiced law (criminal defense and personal injury) for about 20 years and continued to work part-time in parishes in the Phoenix area in a variety of capacities as a priest.
In January of 2004 I closed my law office to take over a parish in Cave Creek, AZ, a little town about 35 miles north of Phoenix. I served that parish for about 5 years and decided to retire in January of this year.
Scottie and I were married for 41 years until her death in November, 2007 after a long battle with cancer. We had two children, Christie who is now 39, she is a Speech Pathologist in Denver, and Mike, now 27, a youth counselor here in Phoenix. In the 12 year...Expand for more
s between their respective births we had two other boys, both of whom died at birth.
Along the way I also became a photographer.
In retirement I still help out part-time in local parishes as needed, and I travel to photograph and I am developing a portrait business and marketing network for my photos, which I never had time to do before I retired.
I have had the good fortune to visit Africa twice on mission trips (and of course I squeezed in a couple photo safaris). During my sabbatical in 2008 I spent two months traveling and photograping Ecuador, its people, culture and natural beauty. That included a 10 day trip to Peru, to Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Colca Canyon, and Lima. I also explored some of the volcanos surrounding Quito.
I continue to work on justice issues in Phoenix and the State of Arizona through a Community Organization of churches and other institutuions. We work on leveraging banks to allow people re-finance their homes, creating new career training programs for under-educated people, and promoting economic recovery through comprehensive immigration reform.
My passion is working for justice for the hispanic community, especially undocumented immigrants, through comprehensive immigration reform and other political and economic structures.
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