GLENN FOSSUM, musician, ‘entertains in Augie’s Lounge at the new Terrace Inn during the lunch, hour and at cocktail time. Fossum’s forte is blues and boogie woogie:-§ @° hoe Ministre d’Etat Jeunesse Mention de reconnaissance présentée a Award of Merit Presented to The Householders and Businesses of Terrace Minister of State Youth pour sa participation active au Programme d’emploi d’été pour les étudiants canadiens 15th Décernée cefDated this jour de (d’/of in recognition of outstanding participation in the Summer Employment Program for Canada’s students — ~ August 390 | Terrace, B.C. Ville City Province ou territolreProvinee Territory Cc , I‘hongrable Marcel Danis. mingftre d’Etat 4 fa Jounesse! is Minister of State for Youth Se nities HIREASTUDENT Canad? Who is... by Betty Barton Glenn Fossum is a musician, a ball player and a boat builder.. And he’s past ‘president of the Awe- some Fossum’s Lonely Hearts | Club, Current president is Jimmy Larkin and director-at-large is Daniel Barnswell. They’re still looking for a secretary, Glenn jokes. Glenn further explains that he came to Terrace to be with a girlfriend attending Northwest Community College, whom he’d met in Salmon Arm (his home for the previous 10 years). Now, he’s seeing someone new, and he says this one’s serious. , Glenn hitchhiked to Terrace in the midst of a February winter blizzard, and he’s been entertaining on the piano in Augie’s Lounge at the new Terrace Inn since then. Gienn is a self-taught piano man. He doesn’t read music, so he plays by ear, a very "in tune" eat, at that. Glenn Fossum was born in Thun- der Bay, Ontario, but spent his early years in Florida. He remem- bers his early music training and credits his mother with making him take accordion lessons "for a couple of years." He really wanted to be a drummer, and when he was old enough to make his own deci- sions, Glenn Fossum started play- ing drums with various bands. His career as a pianist began. when his younger brother gave him an old piano and he just started plunking away at it. He had been a teacher for nine " years, at that time, but he hated the bureaucracy and the stability. The excitement of the stage appealed to ‘|. him. His mother had been a dra- matic stage actress and his father was also an actor. They had met at the New York Académy of Per- . forming Arts. His grandfather was one of the founders of 20th Cen- tury Fox. With his self-taught piano skills, a definite ear for music and a lust for the open road, Glenn began moonlighting as a pianist with Jimmy Buffett. He was "making, almost as much money doing that as teaching, and definitely enjoying it lots more"..He quit his teaching job and worked in -Florida night clubs for a few years. In a Roaring 20’s club, he developed his pen- chant for the blues, dixieland style. . Ten years ago, he hooked up with a blues band in Salmon Arm, B.C. while he was up visiting friends. Through them, he "did a card" (performed in the same show) with the Powder Blues band. They hil itoff and Glenn did "a couple of gigs with. them", Willy McCaldcr helped him to further rctine his blues style, still a Glenn Fossum? | ‘the general manager. Robert Q. ‘day when it is again seaworthy. Legion. Glenn also volunteers his some of the songs recorded within favourite. When Glenn arrived in Terrace last winter, he remembered, froma previous visit, a piano in Augie's Lounge. When he dropped in, - Anka, one of the hostesses, arranged an interview for him with Smith knew a good thing when he heard him play and he hired Glenn ty on the spot. Glenn quickly settled into Terrace and all that it has to offer. . He is currently rebuilding an old boat, which was one of five sister ships built in Halifax and run by the Coast Guard. It is the only.one of the five still in existence and Mt Glenn is looking forward to the ~ z Mh It's the one parked beside. the piano expertise in the Legion in 1 his free time. With his "real good friend” Don - | Petitpas, Glenn is also collaborat- Bee ing on song writing. Don is the ; leader of the Rocky Top Country ( Band and owns Terrace Trans- mission. They’re concentrating on country/blues and hope to have ithe next few months. They are also working together with ~ local director/playwright Daniel Barns- well on a new rock musical. Also io do with music, Glenn teaches piano to one student, nine-year old Sarah Kientz who, he says, "will be the next boogie woogie star of oi the 20th century!" i Glenn Fossum grew up with sports, as well as music and acting. He even tried out for the Washington Redskins, but he "got cut", That was when he turned to softball. He now pitches for both the Terrace Inn scrub softball team and Bili’s Plumbing. He says he’s got lots of batlic and victory scars to show for it. Last week, his Terrace Inn team was victorious out of 16 teams in the Thomhill Scrub Tourney. Another highlight of Glenn's time in Terrace was teaching five- year-old Jennifer Glaser to ride a bike and having her ride away on the first push! A man of many talents. If you want to enjoy some excit- ing blues and other “stylings by Glenn Fossum", drop in Monday through Friday noon to 2 p.m., Momlay through Thursday 9 p.m. until midnight, and between 5 and 7 Friday evenings during the Ter- race Inn's Wind Down. Glenn's closing comment during our interview was, "Terrace has been verry, verrry good to me", and he plans to make Terrace home, “if they let me!"