Glendora (Television producer and host)

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Born May 1, 1928. Anno Domini Presque Isle, Maine At age 7, Glendora moved 140 miles south to Lincoln, Maine Glendora waitressed at summer resorts to earn college tuition. She met famous Broadway comedian, Bobby Clark whose wife called Glendora "Snookie" Glendora was awarded a student fellowship in psychology at prestigious and wealthy Smith College. She did not accept. In 1950, Glendora was a research assistant at the University of California, Berkeley In 1951, Glendora worked at NBC Hollywood and Vine and met Jack Webb, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Martin & Lewis, Talula! Bankhead, et al: She gave Bob Hope her four scrapbooks of pictures 18" by 22". Bob said to his agent, "She has more pictures of me than you do". Bob Hope let Glendora tell jokes to his studio audience after his radio show was taped. Her first TV Show was "Glendora and her Picture Party" Pittsfield. It was sponsored and 15 minutes a week (kids show). Her second TV Show was the SS Glendora a steamship. Glendora was the skipper. The kids were the sailors. She told them the "SS" stood for steamship. They said it stood for "stupid show". It was 45 mins a day Mon-Fri. Her third TV Show was The SS Glendora on WBZ-TV, Boston, the Westinghouse station. It was sponsored by Milton Bradley games and color crayons. The next company to pay for the SS Glendora was General Electric, WRGB, Channel 6 Schenectady/Troy/Albany. She was there for 6 years, Monday through Friday, 45 minutes a day. In 1972, after being away from television for a decade, Glendora entered cable TV public access with "A Chat with Glendora". This was in Buffalo, NY. She interviewed Arthur Godfried, Frankie Arken, Humperdink, et al.

Glendora is a public access television producer and judicial activist from New York. She is the host of A Chat with Glendora, which has broadcast over 4,000 shows since 1972 on the public access channels of cable systems all over the United States.

Her show documents her life, and her life is about getting her show on as many cable systems as possible. When she encounters problems, she often sues the cable company as a pro se litigant. She has expert knowledge of the law and the courts, and has won a few noteworthy cases.

She has interviewed many celebrities on the show, including Robert C. Wright, then President of NBC. She is known for lawyer jokes, dressing in a white straw hat and wearing white gloves, humming along with the Christian hymns which provide her background music, and for her ethical vegetarianism. She is author of the Glendora Happy Book.

A living television pioneer, Glendora started in this new medium in 1950 with a children's show.

For a number of years in the early 1960's, Glendora hosted an afternoon cartoon show on Schenectady's WRGB (Channel 6). Five days a week, attired in a silvery pleated skirt and button-up blouse with large epaulets, Glendora was the captain of "Satellite Six," a '50's-style scifi spaceship set, from whence she aired made-for-TV Felix The Cat (and various other) cartoons. Her nemesis was her boss, the Munimula ("aluminum" spelled backwards), a disembodied gibberish talk voice on the ship's telephone who would periodically call in to give Glendora grief.

Glendora appeared as a guest on the David Letterman Show in 1987.

She was married to Franklyn Buell, a journalist who wrote for the Springfield Union and the Buffalo Evening News. Franklyn died Oct. 19, 2003 Chatham, NY. He left the world a spectacular collection of the baseball encyclopedia, "Who's Who in Baseball" back to the 1940s and many other baseball books. He kept a scrapbook of the baseball games he attended, the boxscores of each and the article on each from the newspaper. All of this collection lives on in the Glendora/Franklyn museum.