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Leave a tributeJust tried to reach you on your cell to let you know how much we will all miss your father. I met him some 25-30 years ago as a young political reporter when he was president of Friends of Channel 8. He was a prolific letter-to-the-editor writer when I was editing the editorial pages in both Phoenix and, more recently, here in Dallas. I always enjoyed his commentary.
Most of all, I appreciated his enthusiasm and advice when my husband and I moved 12 years ago to Dallas from Phoenix. We stayed in touch over the years via letter and phone calls at birthdays. He visited us several times in our Dallas home when he was still making the twice-annual trips to North Texas for those UTA board meetings. My husband and I, and granddaughter Isabelle, 8, visited with Lloyd at an ice cream parlor Surprise, Arizona a summer ago. It was fun all the way around the table.
I have always been inspired by Lloyd's wide interests, curiosity and experiences. He had a memory for detail that would shame an elephant. I hope to have half his wit at 91!
Our thoughts are very much with you and your family at this difficult time.
Best,
-Keven
PS: Here's a link to the obituary that we published this morning in TDMN:
http://www.dallasnews.com/obituary-headlines/20141125-lloyd-clark-who-cherished-dallas-uta-ties-dies-at-91.ece
Keven Ann Willey
Vice President and Editorial Page Editor
Dallas Morning News
214-977-8253
A conscientious co-worker,
A consistent role model,
An affirming friend, and
Always an inspiration.
Llloyd when he headed SEAGO. Bright, nice guy, good organizer
He admitted that the best careers were in the metro areas, but he
loved these smaller communities.
Scott
for those wanting to read more of Lloyd Clark's affiliation with UTA
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UTA Cadet Corps Bio
University of Texas at Arlington
Cadet Corps Alumni Council
Lloyd Clark
Preparation for his 37-year service in the Army of the United States began for Lloyd Clark as an ROTC cadet at North Texas Agricultural College, where he served as commander of the corps in the summer of 1942. As an enlisted man, Clark edited the Camp Hood News (TX), in 1944, and upon completion of Officer's Candidate School in 1945 was assigned as the public relations officer at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. Ten of his years as a reservist were spent on active duty. Although he never served overseas, he had extensive experience in combat training - from participating with the U.S. Coast Guard conducting riverboat landings on the Mississippi River to directing operations of a simulated Vietnamese Village at Fort Gordon, Ga., where he served as an instructor at the Civil Affairs School, 1967-69. He was promoted to colonel in 1976 while heading the U.S. Army Reserve School at Fort Huachuca, AZ. He retired from military service in 1979 as director of the National Defense University's course in Phoenix in 1979. Clark was inducted into UTA's Military Hall of Honor in 1998.
Clark's Journalistic career began also at NTAC, where he edited The Shorthorn, 1941-42. During World War II and until 1948 he edited and published Express, a periodical that chronicled NTAC's ex-students' activities. (The UTA Libraries' Special Collections Division has a complete file of the publication that was a forerunner of the present alumni Association's magazine.) After World War II, Clark became a reporter for the Dallas Morning News while completing studies for a Bachelor of Science in Journalism degree at Southern Methodist University. Clark received a Masters in Public Administration from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 1972 and proceeded to serve in governmental regional offices in Flagstaff and Bisbee, AZ. He concluded his public service work as a program administrator for the Arizona Department of Transportation, Phoenix, in 1983. He was a reporter and editor for the Phoenix Gazette, an afternoon daily, for 16 1/2 years and continues to write a weekly column for the Daily News-Sun of Sun City, AZ.
Since then, he has taught Elderhostel and college courses on Arizona and military history, and currently lectures, writes, and conducts tours. He founded the Council on Abandoned Military Posts in 1966. CAMP, now known as the Council on America's Military Past, is a non-profit corporation with some 1,000 members. A former member of the board of the Arizona Historical Society, Clark has been that organization's delegate to the Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historical Names for nine years.
In 1993, the Lloyd Clark Journalism Scholarship was established at UTA by some of his NTAC classmates, led by Fred Freeman of Dallas, his college roommate. Under Auspices of the UTA Alumni Association, the endowed fund makes monetary grants annually to an outstanding student.
Lloyd Clark and his wife, Jean - a native of Prescott, AZ, reside in Surprise, AZ. They have a son and two daughters and eight grandchildren.
West Hazelwood
Lloyd and his family were our backyard neighbors on West Hazelwood Street in Phoenix. I remember him and his family. We connected over the years. He was a creative man and faithful neighbor. I posted a picture he took of my sister, a neighbor and me floating around in our backyard in our canoe in 1955, which he got published in the Phoenix Gazette. Rest in peace, Lloyd and best wishes to his family and all who knew him.
Lloyd and I didn’t text – twitter – do laptops – or use smart phones. Hell, we didn’t even have dumb phones.
But it was always great getting one of his hand-written notes or a phone call such as the last one just a few days before he left us -- “Julian, what was the name of the character Cary Grant played in ‘To Catch a Thief’?”
Or --- “I’ve been humming this song all day long but I can’t come up with the title -- and what show is it from?”
Often he would ask me in front of a larger audience as when he would call in to my trivia show on KTAR radio. He was one of my regulars.
One time we even drove to Los Angeles for a film convention because he learned that Dorothy Malone (who won an Oscar for “Written on the Wind”) would be making an appearance. Seems she was in his drama class back in Dallas. Her name was Maloney at the time.
And I could always count on his dropping in on one of my movie lectures, especially in the Sun City area. He was front row-center at my Goldwater Lecture Series gig.
We often toasted birthdays together. In the early years Jean would join us -- usually at Sing High for Chinese in downtown Phoenix. Later, for about 10 years, reporter Bill Hermann and columnist Sam Lowe joined us. More recently we got together several times with Linda James-Trujillo and Nadine Reyes.
We also drove down to Tucson on various occasions for meetings of the Arizona Historical Society. What fun! I would bring some Big Band cassettes along and we sang along with Artie Shaw and Sinatra and the Andrew Sisters -- to mention a few.
Lloyd and Jean were totally wonderful folks to be around. Always friendly and positive. Making you comfortable seemed to be their mission. Absolutely non-judgmental and caring.
To paraphrase from his beloved “Casablanca” -- when we first crossed paths it was “the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” -JULIAN REVELES