L. Stanley Glarum was born in Portland, Oregon, April 19, 1908. After high school, Glarum studied piano, harmony, and composition with Dent Mowrey, and became a professional arranger and accompanist in radio and concert. Glarum attended courses at University of Oregon and Multnomah College before earning his Bachelor of Music Education degree from St. Olaf College in 1939. During the next five years, Glarum taught high school music and earned a Master of Arts in Music from the University of Washington (1946). In 1947, Glarum was hired as a Professor of Music at Lewis & Clark College, where he taught theory, counterpoint, canon and fugue, choral methods, choral conducting, choral arranging and composition. He also served as the director of College Choral groups. Under Glarum's direction, the Lewis & Clark College Choir was selected as the official broadcasting choir of the United Presbyterian Church of America in 1962, which entailed the creation of all official radio taped used by the Church during the year of 1962. Glarum's choir's at Lewis & Clark performed across the United States. For four consecutive years, beginning in 1971, Glarum received the national award of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. He was awarded an honorary doctor of music degree by Whitworth College in 1968. Glarum retired from Lewis & Clark in June of 1975 and died in December the same year at his home in Canon Beach, Oregon.