Renown teacher and author. Taught at the University of Kentucky for 37 years. Occasionally taught at other universities in his career, including Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and University of Athens. He received A Guggenheim Fellowship Award for historical studies of the newspapers of Louisvile, KY. He retired from UK in 1968. Was actively working on projects up until a few months before his death. Was the subject of a book published the year of his 100 birthday: An Uncommon Life in the Commonwealth. In 1990, he was named Kentucky's Historian Laureate for Life. On July 30, 1995, his wife of 62 years, Elizabeth Turner Clark died at the age of 89. In November of 1996, he married Loretta Gilliam Brock, 75. He had two chidren: Thomas Bennet and Elizabeth. in 1998, the Lexington (KY) Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives choose Dr. Clark as its' first Outstanding Philanthropist.
Renown teacher and author. Taught at the University of Kentucky for 37 years. Occasionally taught at other universities in his career, including Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and University of Athens. He received A Guggenheim Fellowship Award for historical studies of the newspapers of Louisvile, KY. He retired from UK in 1968. Was actively working on projects up until a few months before his death. Was the subject of a book published the year of his 100 birthday: An Uncommon Life in the Commonwealth. In 1990, he was named Kentucky's Historian Laureate for Life. On July 30, 1995, his wife of 62 years, Elizabeth Turner Clark died at the age of 89. In November of 1996, he married Loretta Gilliam Brock, 75. He had two chidren: Thomas Bennet and Elizabeth. in 1998, the Lexington (KY) Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives choose Dr. Clark as its' first Outstanding Philanthropist.
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