Eugene D. Glickman

Eugene D. Glickman, of Sturbridge, Mass died on Saturday, July 10, 2010 at the Jewish Healthcare Center in Worcester, MA. He was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 18, 1918. He was the son of Henry Louis Glickman and Helen Miller Glickman and graduated from Austin High School in 1935, the year that he was captain of the City of Chicago champion volleyball team. He graduated at age 20 from the University of Chicago where he was a member of the Phi Sigma Delta Fraternity.

A World War II veteran, Eugene was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Airforce at Harvard Officer Candidate's School and served in the armed forces until his discharge in 1945. He got his accounting and CPA degrees from Northwestern and Loyola. He was married to Elaine Ginsberg Glickman for 66 years until her death in 2008. They first settled in Davenport, Iowa, where he was president of Freeman-Glickman, Inc. furniture for forty years. During his time in Davenport, he was president of the Kiwanis Club, the Retail Merchants' Bureau, the Temple Emmanuel Brotherhood, as well as Secretary of the United Way and Chairman of the Quad Cities United Jewish Appeal. He received an honorary degree from St. Ambrose College in 1966.

Eugene is remembered by his family as someone who was an ardent and omnivorous follower of sports and news, with a fan's attachment to the Chicago teams of his youth, but with the flexibility to nimbly shift allegiance to the regions of the country where he lived later in life. While he admitted that he struggled to keep his golf scores under three figures per round, he wished it to be noted that he nonetheless managed four holes-in-one among his thousands of swings. In addition to his ready sense of humor and bottomless supply of jokes for all occasions, he is remembered for his prodigious memory for facts, figures, stories, names, historical events and personal experiences, ranging from everyone's phone numbers to what he ate last week to classmates from eighty years ago. His family likes to say that before they had Google, they had Gene.

Services will be private. Contributions in his memory would be welcome to the Jewish Healthcare Center in Worcester or to the Jimmy Fund at Dana-Farber Hospital.

His elephantine memory and good humor continued all the way to the end of his long life, and he would like patient readers of this obituary to know that he has "carefully reviewed and approved this message."