Glen Hampshire '56
2003 Outstanding Educator

When Glen Hampshire was a student at DWU he planned on becoming a doctor, but after graduation his calling changed to teaching. His first full-time teaching job was at Wakonda's grade school and then Armour High School.

Hampshire moved with his family to Oregon where he earned a master's degree from Oregon State University in 1961 and began a 30-year career. Hampshire retired in 1991 and now devotes much of his time to his church, where he is chairman of the board of trustees.

During his teaching career with Portland Public Schools, he taught science until 1969 when he became a team leader at John Adams High School. John Adams High School, an experimental school of the Portland Public Schools, closed in 1981 and Hampshire resumed his career at Jefferson High School.

Hampshire served as director of the Computer Science Project for Portland Public Schools, Title I director and chairman of the science department at John Adams High School, and superintendent of LIFE Fellowship Evangelical Church Sunday school.

Former classmate Theodore P. Roman '56 writes: "Glen's life has consistently demonstrated care and concern for all of the people in his life, his family, his church family, his students, his professional colleagues and his friends. Glen has been committed to a life of service, love of family and love of God, which are ideals that have been cherished and aspired to by generations of Wesleyanites."

Hampshire lives in Portland with his wife, Lorraine. They have four grown children.