GLEN CUNNINGHAM

Gunninghem wes born August 4, 1009, the son of Mr. and Mrs. H.C.
Cunningham, formerly of Elkhart, Ken., now living at Bonners Ferry,
Idaho.

Glennspent his adolescence among the hardshaps of prarie life
in southwestern Kansas.

At the age of 8 Glenn wes involved in a tragedy which esaused the
death of his — Floyd and all but left Glenn an invalid.

Floyd then 13 years old, was stove tander at the little rural
school attended by the Cunningham boys and girls. One morning Floyd
threw fluid from an unlabelled can into the stove to start the fire.
An explosion followed.

Eight-year old Glenn was standing nearby. Both were enveloped
in flames. Their 12 year old sister, Letha, broke into the school=
house and extinguished the fire with sand.

Floyd died from his burns and Glenn was in bed six weeks before
he recovered to a semi-inva lid stage, his legs covered with scars.

He attended high school at Elkhart, Kan. where Coach Roy Varney,
a graduate of Kansas State feacher's College of Pittsburg took Glenn
in charges In the spring of 1950, his senior year in high school,
Glenn came to the Kansas Relays, where he set a high school mile
record at 4:31.64; at the state high school meet he ran a record
4:28.4 mile in the rain and at Chicago in the national high school

meet he set a record of 4:24.7 which was never broken.