David Ellsworth Clark
1922-2013
![David E. Clark, 1922-2013](images_davidclark/Dad.jpg)
My father passed away in April 2013 at the age of 90. He was my role model and mentor, a restless world traveler, and a true scholar and critical thinker in an age of willful ignorance. Words cannot express how much I miss him.
Eulogy by Jeff Siggers Eulogy by George B. Kauffman
![Mom and Dad on his birthday, Thanksgiving 2012.](images_davidclark/DadandMom-1.jpg)
Dad and Mom on his 90th birthday.
![Dad and his tank crew in early 1945.](images_davidclark/DadandTankCrew2.jpg)
Dad and his M7 tank crew in early 1945. Dad is standing second from the right in the back with his helmet askew.
My father was my role model:
On how a man related to his spouse in marriage;
On how a man related to his children in a family;
On how a man related to his colleagues at work;
On how a man related to his friends in friendship;
On how a man set about living his life.
My father earned modestly as an academic.
He and my mother made the most of what they had,
And lived life to its fullest:
Loving, for Dad cherished his wife and his family;
Laughing, for Dad cultivated friendships wherever he found them;
Working, for Dad was ambitious in his own academic way;
Learning, for Dad had an expansive and voracious intellect;
Traveling, for Dad was a restless itinerant and saw the world.
My father was the wealthiest man I ever knew.
Stephen E. Clark
April 27, 2013