University of Maine at Portland - Reflection / Umpire Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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8 ALFRED EVANS CLARKE l':- ni, v ,Q J... r.3,1,' lgifiyffiz' 5 4252-EE' ,, SELL.: A Although M1-. Clarke's Work at UMP keeps him very busy, he finds time to help a number of scholarship organizations, in- cluding work as director of the Portland Citizen's Scholarship Foundation, as a director of the Simmonds Foundation, and as a member of the George C. Shaw Scholarship Committee. An enthusiastic amateur painter, lVlr. Clarke relaxes by painting land- scapes in watercolors or by reading in a Wide diversity of fields, enveloped by billows of smoke from one or another of his famous pipes.

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DEDICATION For twenty years Alfred Evans Clarke has been identified with this campus, first as instructor of history and government at Port- land Junior College from l94-6 to l95O, and then with the added duties of part-time Director of Admissions at PIC and UMP until l959, when he was appointed full-time Director of Admissions for the Portland campus of the University of Maine. Mr. Clarke has won a place in the hearts of thousands of students over the years, for his fatherly interest and helpful words of counsel have continued long after his duties as Director of Admissions have been completed in individual cases. For more than twelve years he was advisor to both the Student Council and the Cuting Club, and for ten years he was also coach of the golf team. Even now, busy as he is, he finds time each year to help at the Mountain Day cookout and to act as Santa Claus at the annual Christmas Party for the children of UMP faculty and staff workers. A A native of Gorham, New Hampshire, where he was born on October 29, 1905, Mr. Clarke attended Dartmouth College, where he became director of Dartmouth's famous Outing Club and a member of the board of directors of Dartmouth's Winter Carnival. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1928, he worked in a variety of positions for the next twelve years before attending graduate school at the University of New Hampshire. During this period Mr. Clarke and Annette Bouchard were married. Their first daughter, Patricia, was born two years after their marriage, and their second daughter, Carolyn, ten years later. The Clarkes now have four grandchildren. At the outbreak of World War II, Mr. Clarke was teach- ing high school at Berlin, New Hampshire. When the shipyards opened at South Portland, he was made director of supervisory training for the Todd Shipyards Corporation. His work was so successful that he was promoted to become general director of training for the Todd Corporation, supervising the training of employees at yards scattered throughout the nation. When the war ended and he was free to return to peace-time education, Dean Bonney of Portland Junior College learned of his availability and persuaded him to join the faculty which was starting to develop what is now the Portland campus of the University of Maine.

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Dr. H. Edwin Young, the new President of the University of Maine, was for the past four years Dean of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin where he was actively involved in the development of added campuses of the State University similar to the develop- ment which is now progressing so rapidly here on the Portland Campus. Dr. H. Austin Peck, Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of Maine, was one of the persons most re- sponsible for seeing that our new building, Luther Bonney Hall, was completed and ready for use by the fall of 1965.