Mr. Glist is locally known as an artist, as the author of China Mailbag Uncensored, Letters from an American GI in WWII China and India, and as a graphics and training consultant. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942, and served in the China Burma India theater of war. For his service in China, four-year WWII veteran Glist was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and decorated by the Chinese government with the Breast Order of the Yun Hui. Glist graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, attended Chouinard Art Institute and received a Certificate in Industrial Relations from UCLA. After 30 years of working for Shell Oil Company in the US, England, Europe, the Far East and South Africa in management, merchandising and training assignments, Glist retired to focus on his art. Glist had been recognized as one of the nation's top college cartoonists, wrote and illustrated for the Stars and Stripes, and illustrated throughout his business career. In 1982, he opened his own art studio. His watercolors have been exhibited at various venues around the region, are featured in Baylor College Calendar on Aging, and won a Bronze Award from the World Art for Peace Competition. His cartoons won a Silver Award from the International TV and Arts Festival. During the last 23 years, he has had his paintings, cartoons and caricatures appear in regional, international and major company publications and calendars. In addition to media design, he has written copy for major company training media and manuals, and authored manuals on training, salesmanship and conceptualizing. An irrepressible volunteer, Glist served as President of the Watercolor Art Society of Houston, and chaired its Outreach program that provides art instruction for school children, cancer patients at Texas Children's Hospital, and the mature segment of our population. He created a major mural dedicated to these children in the former Texas Children's Cancer Center Chemotherapy and Oncology department. He taught art to children cancer patients through the Periwinkle Foundation. In 2000, Glist published China Mailbag Uncensored, a book of letters, cartoons and sketches sent from WWII China to his wife, Lottie, then a bride of only four months. His work provides a unique view of rural wartime China and cosmopolitan Shanghai after Japan's defeat. The book was released in translation in China in September 2005, during extensive ceremonies throughout China in which Glist represented the United States China-Burma-India Association and the US-China Peoples Friendship Association. Glist was also active in the China-India-Burma Veteran's Association-Houston Basha, Downtown Kiwanis, and was a member of the Geriatric Art Society, National Speakers Association, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Asia Society and World Affairs Council. Throughout his life, Lou Glist gave generously and tirelessly of himself with grace, wit, love and respect. He is survived by his beloved wife of 61 years, Lottie Glist; daughter Marcia Breaz and husband Peter Breaz, son Paul Glist and wife Karla Jamir, and grandchildren Heather Marie Fletcher and husband Matthew Fletcher, Jordan Glist, and Anna Glist.