The unemployed trombone player Glenn Miller is always broken, chasing his sound to form his band and hocking his instrument in the pawn house to survive ... girlfriend Helen Berger, in Boulder ...

With the blessing of Glenn Miller’s family and efforts made by his wife, Helen, and his manager, his band and their signature sound continued after his death. Helen approached saxophonist Tex ...

Alton Glenn Miller (A&S ex’26, HonDocHum’84) spent three semesters at the University of Colorado before pawning his college trombone for a bus ticket to Los Angeles. While enrolled at CU, he met his ...

In the meantime, Glenn and Helen adopted two children, a daughter named Jonnie and a son named Steve. While all was right in Glenn Miller’s world, all was not well on the world stage.

Related by birth to the family of Glenn Miller’s wife, the former Helen Dorothy Burger, Alan has had a unique blood bond to the Miller Family and this relationship gave Alan a profound sense of ...