Gene Glasco, City Clerk 2012-2024. Retired in 2024. This photo c. 2020. Gene Glasco is a native Californian and long time resident of Arcadia. Gene attended Highland Oaks Elementary school, First Avenue Junior High School, and is a graduate of Arcadia High School where he lettered in Football and played second chair trombone in the award-winning AHS Marching Band. Gene is Arcadia’s first elected City Clerk that is a graduate of Arcadia High School.
Gene served six years in the United States Navy. He spent fourteen months in Vietnam as a Radioman in support of US Navy riverboat activities in the Mekong Delta and is a service-connected disabled Veteran. Gene is an Honor Role graduate of Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo. He attended San Jose State University where he majored in Public Relations with a minor in Asian American History. After thirty years in the foodservice industry, Gene retired from Glasco and Associates, Inc. He also has practiced real estate in Arcadia.
Arcadia Recreation Department event shows a crowd of children and adults (families) on grass at Los Angeles County Park (?). Background left is a statue and County Park buildings are visible. Fenced area could be the County pool. Photograph by Paul Kennedy, Arcadia, CA.
Closer up view of Hugo Reid Family statue, showing the faces of the family, at Arcadia County Park. Swings are in the background. This was before the statue was moved to the Gilb Museum. Photograph by Terry Miller.
Gathering of eight dignitaries at time of dedication of fountains in NE corner of County Park. Figure on left shaking hands is John Anson Ford, former County Supervisor. He is shaking hand of Supervisor Frank Bonelli. Man in tweed coat to right of Bonelli is Norman Johnson, Director of Parks & Recreation Dept. Man with dark-rimmed glasses seen behind two shaking hands is Arcadia City Manager Harold K. Shone.
View NW toward fountain in NE corner of Arcadia County Park at the time of dedication of the fountain. Supervisor Frank G. Bonelli is seen activating spray for first time. On left is Norman Johnson, Director of Parks and Recreation Dept. Man on right is Arcadia City Manager Harold K. Shone.
Another view of Hugo Reid Family statue at Arcadia County Park. Swings are in the background. This was before the statue was moved to the Gilb Museum. Photograph by Terry Miller.
Another view of Hugo Reid Family statue at Arcadia County Park. Swings are in the background. This was before the statue was moved to the Gilb Museum. Photograph by Terry Miller.
Full length view of Hugo Reid Family statue (Reid, wife Victoria Reid, and two children) at Arcadia County Park. Swings are in the background. This was before the statue was moved to the Gilb Museum. Photograph by Terry Miller.