Welcome to the home page of Robert Glaub. I'm originally from Indiana, but I've been residing in the state of Maryland for the past twenty-four years. I work as an analyst for the US government, where I've been for the past twenty- five years, as a member of the US Air Force and as a civilian. I'm 5 feet 9 inches tall, weigh 260 pounds and have black hair (what little I have left) and grey eyes.
I was born in La Porte, Indiana on May 3,1954 to Paul and Doris Glaub. My father enlisted in the US Army in 1940, just ahead of being drafted. He was with the 1st Infantry Division through the war, landing in North Africa, Sicily and Omaha Beach in Normandy, and went through the Battle of the Bulge. After helping liberate a concentration camp, he was wounded just before the war ended. He died of a heart attack in 1955 when I was one.
My mother was one of the few women actually in the Regular Navy, not the WAVES, during the war. She was an inspector in a naval ordnance plant in northern Indiana. She died of a stroke in 1980.
My mother remarried several years after my father died and we moved to Three Oaks, Michigan. We lived there for a couple of years and then we myself, a younger half-sister and two younger half-brothers, along with my mother and stepfather), moved to Newport, Arkansas for a period of years. My mother and stepfather separated, and my mother and I moved to Michigan City, Indiana for a year, and then I went to live with my aunt, Mildred Renfro, in La Porte, Indiana after my mother became ill. My aunt passed away in 1990. I lived there all through high school (I graduated from La Porte HS in 1972) and through college until I joined the Air Force in 1978.
I attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana from 1972 to 1977, majoring in European History and Journalism. I wanted to be a teacher like my father. After finding out that teaching at the junior high level was not my forte, I joined the Air Force. I found the military to be much easier than teaching!
After doing basic training and technical school in Texas, I was sent to Japan in December 1978 for eighteen months. I did the usual thing of being on shiftwork for the whole time I was there. I also took the time to travel throughout the Far East. I also accumulated a lot of camera and stereo equipment, like most other service members who go to the region. I've long had an interested in photography; I haven't indulged in a while, but I intend to again. After getting back from overseas, I was stationed in Maryland. I got out of the military in 1982, got hired on as a civilian in 1983, and I've been in Maryland ever since.
Wargaming, computer and board, is one of my big interests. Among other favorites for board games are Europa Universalis (a game of the exploration and settlement of the New World, along with the European fun and games), GRD's Europa series of division-level games from World War Two, GRD's Glory series from WWII in the Pacific, SPI's Empire of the Middle Ages, Avalon Hill's Empires in Arms (Napoleonic Wars) and ADG's World in Flames (World War Two).
Computer games I like are Decision Games' War in Europe (WWII), Civilization III from Microprose, the Battleground series from Talonsoft (American Civil War and Napoleonic) and Europa Universalis 2 from Strategy First.
I also run a 3rd Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons campaign, set in the Forgotten Realms, once a week. Great for working off those frustrations!
I'm also involved in a Strat-O-Matic baseball league. We meet face-to-face whenever we can. We just started our season. My franchise is in Atlanta, but like all the teams, I have players from all over major league baseball. We just had a reorganization of our league so everybody started over. The season is over, and my grand experiment of having a all lefty rotation was a disaster. Back to the drawing board.
Science fiction and fantasy are some of my favorite things to read (and write), along with a hodgepodge of other stuff. Among my favorite authors are Tom Clancy (various techno thrillers), J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion), James Clavell (Shogun, Tai-pan, Noble House), Susan Shwartz (Grail of Hearts), Judy Tarr (King and Goddess), Esther Friesner (Chicks in Chainmail), Patricia Kennealy Morrison (Keltiad), Mercedes Lackey (Heralds of Valdemar), Jerry Pournelle (Janissaries series, Falkenberg series), Steve Stirling (Draka series), Harry Turtledove (Worldwar, Videssos and Great War series), Ray Feist (Riftwar), Nancy Springer and Catherine Asaro. This list is by no means inclusive.
Non-fiction stuff I have include Robert K. Massie (Dreadnought, Peter the Great), David Chandler (Campaigns of Napoleon), F. Loraine Petre (five volume study of some of Napoleon's campaigns), and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Great Boer War) among others.
I have various musical tastes. My favorites tend to be from the sixties and seventies, with a fair smattering from the fifties and eighties. When it comes to classical, I tend to prefer Russian works, but I have a fair collection of others. My other listening includes groups such as Chicago, Styx, Moody Blues, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Electric Light Orchestra, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the Doors and the Carpenters, for starters.
As for individuals, I like Roy Orbison, Linda Ronstadt, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand, Judy Collins, Carole King, Anne Murray and Gloria Estefan to name just a few. I also have a huge collection of Broadway and Hollywood musical soundtracks, with place of prominence being given to A Chorus Line and West Side Story.
Most of the videos I collect are from mini-series, with Winds of War/War and Remembrance the most prominent. I also like historical epics, such as the Ten Commandments, El Cid, Ben-Hur, Khartoum and others like that. Since I'm a figure skating fan, I have a sizable collection of those videos as well. I also like to collect Westerns and musicals.
From when I was ten years old (1964) until I aged out at twenty-one (1975) I marched with a junior drum and bugle corps, the Maple City Cadets of La Porte, India, playing soprano bugle (equivalent to a trumpet). It was fun. I got to travel and meet all kinds of interesting people and see all kinds of things and places that I normally would not have. It was also good training for life: I learned responsibility and teamwork, among other things.
While I was in drum corps, I got interested in covering contests for the trade publications. I did this from 1972 until I burned out on the activity in 1984, working for three in total, but doing most of my work for Drum Corps World out of Madison, Wisconsin. Besides covering drum corps, I also covered the winter color guard circuits. The 2004 DCI Championships were held in Denver, Colorado. The 2005 DCI Championships will be held in Boston, Massachusetts.
The 2004 Drum Corps International champions are:
Division I: Cavaliers - Rosemont, Illinois
Division II: Spartans - Nashua, New Hampshire
Division III: Oregon Crusaders - West Linn, Oregon
Also out there, for the 22 and over crowd, are the senior corps-Drum Corps Associates (DCA). They compete just as hard as the juniors and have twice as much fun! Today's kids just don't know how to party. The 2004 DCA Championships were held in Scranton, PA
The 2003 Drum Corps Associates champions are:
Open Class: Empire Statesmen - Rochester, New York
Class A: Grenadiers - Kingston, Ontario
I also did quite a bit of work in the winter color guard scene. I was a staff member on the Innervisions Color Guard from La Porte, Indiana in the late seventies, and I helped teach the Shipmates Color Guard of Arbutus, Maryland and the Meade HS Guard from Fort Meade in the early eighties. The 2004 Championships were held in San Diego, California. The 2005 Champsionships will be held in Dayton, Ohio
The 2004 Winter Guard International Champions are:
Independent World: Fantasia - Riverside, California
Independent Open: Sacred Heart - Roslindale, Massachusetts
Independent A: St Ann's - Neponset, Massachusetts
Scholastic World: James Logan HS - Union City, California
Scholastic Open: The Woodlands HS - The Woodlands, Texas
Scholastic A: Kennesaw Mountain HS - Kennesaw, Georgia
I have finally finished a novel. It's military/hard science fiction, with a touch of romance. It came out to about 130,000 words, more or less. I intend to do revisions, then send it out. There is no title yet. I'm listed as a contributor for the two Warworld novels (BLOODFEUDS and BLOOD VENGEANCE) by Judy Tarr, Steve Stirling, Susan Shwartz and Harry Turtledove published in the early 1990s.
I am now the Secretary and Writer's Liaison to the science fiction club at the agency where I work. As such, we invite writers to come and visit. They come and talk, and then we take them out and feed them very well. So far we've had Susan Shwartz, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Catherine Asaro, Brenda Clough, John Hemry, Ann Crispin, Charles Sheffield, Nancy Kress and Mindy Klasky. In my capacity as writer's liasion, I am an affiliate member of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA).
I was at Worldcon in Boston over Labor Day. I may be at Philcon in December.
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The above links lead to two of my favorite places, SFF Net and Dueling Modems, the gathering places for most of the SF people on the net. The other two lead to the web pages of Drum Corps International, Winter Guard International, and Drum Corps Associates. The final link leads to my Strat baseball league, so everyone can see how my team (Atlanta) is doing.
Last Revised:
10/29/2004
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