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Frank Glynn from front page
and his tireless support has been greatly valued
during the extraordinary times we faced.”
Tracey Miller-Zarnecke is currently the president
of the ESUSD school board. She emailed
that “Frank is so generous with his time and
talent: he has long been a wonderful collaborator
on the El Segundo Education Foundation
board and serving as its Chair now, he stands
as a proven team builder and leader. Frank also
adds tremendous value to the Facilities Advisory
Committee from his professional perspective,
contributing to thoughtful conversations from
his background as an architect, but also with
his firsthand knowledge of our campuses based
on years of being an engaged parent.”
Glynn, who grew up one of ten children,
moved to El Segundo in 1995. An avid sailor,
Glynn said that he first ventured across the
pond to America to compete in a sailing world
championship in the fine environs of Gulfport,
Mississippi. A well-worn path, right, for most
coming to the United States? Dublin, Ireland,
to some waterway in Mississippi?
As part of the Irish sailing contingent competing
in 1983, Glynn said he “asked around”
Biloxi to get information on local architects. He
soon befriended a local architect who quickly
hired Glynn; he then returned to Ireland to
corral the necessary paperwork to return to the
States and continue his American adventure
in Mississippi. Glynn remembered that there
were not too many Irishman who had settled in
Biloxi, but, as luck would have it, shockingly,
at a St. Patrick’s Day gathering, he was able
to network with fellow Gulf Coast Irishmen,
and probably, hoist a Guinness pint or two in
celebration.
After nine months or so of living in Biloxi,
Glynn said he knew that his visa was good for
18 months and had decided that he “did not
want to spend all 18 months in Biloxi,” (who
would?), so he investigated making a quick
change of residency, thinking of relocating in
Boston, a long-time bastion of Irish folk. But
at that point, one of his architecture co-workers
said, “Why don’t you go to Los Angeles? I
know some people there.” Glynn acquiesced,
and his very amenable colleague drove with
Glynn from Biloxi to the City of the Angels,
nearly 2,000 miles away, through the states
of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico if you
drive straight from point A to point B, which
I doubt that they did.
Glynn said that his colleague introduced
him to a few folks in the architectural field in
LA, then his buddy hopped on a plane back to
Mississippi. At that point, Glynn was offered
an architectural job on Beverly Boulevard. He
“bounced around,” he said, working for different
firms, and in 1989, decided to “start my own
little business…and it is still a little business,
but I have been gainfully employed, ever since.”
So, his pathway led from Dublin to Biloxi
to Los Angeles to El Segundo. Glynn said that,
as the avid competitive sailor that he was, and
still is, he was looking for a sailing club to
join upon his arrival in LA. He was pointed in
the direction of Marina Del Rey’s California
Yacht Club. He said that he “Met some nice
people,” and later was asked to skipper larger
boats. One of the people who Glynn skippered
for was El Segundo resident Alex Benson,
whose mother was a realtor, and one might
assume that the attributes of an El Segundo
residency for Glynn were presumably touted.
Glynn was, at the time, living in Hollywood
with his wife, Susan. Glynn said that he and
Susan would travel south on the weekends,
knocking on doors in El Segundo, asking anyone
brave enough to answer the knock, were they
interested in selling their home? Finally, with
the help of a local realtor, the Glynn’s were
able to purchase a home in El Segundo, albeit
one that needed a bit of work.
One day while he was tending to his backyard
overgrowth, Glynn said that his neighbor peaked
over the fence, and after some initial chit-chat,
suggested that Glynn join the El Segundo Rotary
Club, which he did. Glynn is still a member. It
turns out his neighbors were the creators and
owners of the Blue Butterfly Coffee Company,
and when they secured a spot-on Main St. for
a brick-and-mortar store, they prevailed upon
Glynn to help them redesign a space that had
once been a dental office.
Glynn said that while he has experience
designing multiple buildings, “I love designing
houses. Every site is completely different.
Every house has different opportunities and
different challenges. Every client has different
life experiences and different tastes.” Glynn
said that he tries to “bring together” all facets
of what is important to a client and utilize his
experience to create a domicile that is “perfect
for the client.”
Some of the “perfect for the client” residences
include that Bel Air property that sold,
Glynn said, for $17 million, as well as other
residences in El Segundo and in neighboring
Manhattan Beach.
But Glynn and his firm do not just design
buildings locally. He has also drawn a paycheck
from working in India. Which, he said,
all comes back to sailing. Glynn said that he
befriended a fellow sailor of Indian descent,
whose parents would occasionally visit the Los
Angeles area. On a drive down to San Diego
to prepare for a sailing event, Glynn’s friend
asked if he would have an interest in doing
some work in India. His first thought, Glynn
said, was, “no,” but the friend put together more
information on possible projects in India, and
Glynn, in 1993, was invited to tour a possible
project site in Southern India. It turns out that
Glynn, through his sailing contacts, was soon
designing business campuses and like-facilities
for a well-heeled man who was considered
the father of the Indian software industry, the
head-honcho of TATA Consultancy Services.
“I was thrilled with the opportunity,” Glynn
said of his initial chance to work in India.
Although traipsing around India in 1993 was
a bit of a culture shock for the Irishman. He
said that back nearly three decades ago when
he traveled the country, “I was the only person
who looked like me. And there were a billion
people who (did) not look like me.” Maybe
a slight exaggeration, but that did not deter
Glynn, who posits that he has been back to
India more than 50 times, designing much
more grandiose projects than his first business
campus during his initial foray into the
architectural world of India.
Back to El Segundo. Glynn is about nine
months into his two-year commitment to serve
as the Ed! Foundation chair. He said that
the foundation is plugging ahead with their
fundraising efforts, and looking forward to,
hopefully, hosting their annual Ed! Foundation
Gala at Chevron Park sometime in September.
He continues to lend his expertise to the
ESUSD Facilities Advisory Committee, as they
utilize the monies ($92 million) from bond
measure ES that El Segundo voters passed
a few years ago to upgrade current District
facilities and break ground on new projects.
Glynn is also looking forward to, hopefully,
resuming his competitive sailing career,
depending on the vagaries of the fallout from
the COVID-19 epidemic. An avid runner, Glynn
shared that he has completed 23 marathons and
has embarked on an alphabetical running quest:
he is halfway through running a marathon in
locations A-Z; the next marathon highlighted
on his calendar is set to take place in Newport
News, Rhode Island, which will remove the
N from his checklist.
“Well, it’s not far down to paradise, at
least it’s not for me,” were the opening lyrics
of the Cross song. “And if the wind is right,
you can sail away and find tranquility. Oh,
the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and
see. Believe me.”
It seems that Frank Glynn, the Dubliner
who settled in El Segundo via a pit-stop in
Biloxi, Mississippi, has found his tranquility. •
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