Glen Frank Allen took his last breath surrounded by friends at home in Pocatello on March 28, 2021, age 73. Born in Ithaca, New York on November 20, 1947, Glen lived a remarkable and unique life. Glen was brilliant yet down to earth, principled, gentle, capable and generous. He will be missed by his family and many friends.
No doubt Glen was smart. In 1965, he met President Johnson and received a medal as Idaho’s Presidential Scholar for that year. He also won the Idaho State Science Fair, inventing a slide rule that converts from Base-10 to binary. Soon after, he left Pocatello on a full ride to Cornell University, where his grandfather Arthur had founded the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and his grandmother Elsa was a pioneering biology PhD. Glen arrived at Cornell in a spanking new Corvette but convinced his classmates he had at one point travelled from Pocatello to Salt Lake City on…
