John Glenn president would help unite the country. Glenn believed his experience as a senator from Ohio was ideal, due to the state's diversity. Glenn thought that Teddy Kennedy could win the election, but after Kennedy's announcement in late 1982 that he would not seek the presidency, Glenn thought he had a much better chance of winning. He hired a media consultant to help him with his speaking style. Glenn announced his candidacy for president on April 21, 1983 in the John Glenn High School gymnasium. He started out the campaign out-raising the front-runner, Mondale. He also polled the highest of any
John Glenn High School (Walkerton, Indiana) Indiana Department of Public Instruction. The school was dedicated on October 20, 1968 with NASA astronaut John Glenn present. Glenn has won 18 state spell bowl competitions. John Glenn is given a score of 7/10 on greatschools.org. The school has scored higher than the state averages on the End-of-Course-Assessments given by the state of Indiana. The student-teacher ratio is slightly larger than the state average at 20 (Indiana average is 17) Source: 1NCES, 2008-2009 John Glenn offers 13 AP and college-credit courses including : John Glenn offers the following foreign languages: Spanish French Chinese The ethnic make-up of John Glenn