Mr. Lena B. Clark This is Me

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1. 1. Legacy Campaign for NMMI - Campaign News

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   Published on: 10/28/2004   Last Visited: 11/8/2006

   His mother, Lena B. Clark, founded the Charity Ball to benefit crippled children in 1909 and revived the event after World War II.
   
   Mr. Clark's support for the San Diego Zoo took on a new dimension in the 1950s when he suggested that his mother leave the proceeds from the sale of the family's Point Loma mansion to the Zoological Society. He began serving on the society's board in 1969.
   
   As president of the San Diego Zoological Society board from 1977 to 1980, Mr. Clark was instrumental in opening the San Diego Wild Animal Park. He led a mission to China in 1979 to initiate negotiations for the giant pandas.
   
   The 55-year lease he negotiated with the city of San Diego gave the zoo more autonomy to set its own rates, said Charles Bieler, the Zoological Society's executive director emeritus.
   
   In 1978, after fire destroyed the Old Globe Theatre, Mr. Clark helped raise $10 million to rebuild it. Mr. Clark's support of the arts extended to the San Diego Symphony Association, which he had served as president in the early 1960s; the Mingei International Museum, where he was a trustee; and the Timken Museum of Art, where he was on the community advisory group.
   
   In recent years, he was active in Friends of Balboa Park, formerly called the Balboa Park Millennium Society.
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   On the health front, Mr. Clark was a director emeritus of the Institute on Aging at UCSD Medical Center; a member of the Macular Degeneration Advisory Committee of the UCSD Shiley Eye Center; a member of the Planning & Development Board of the Green Cancer Center at Scripps Clinic; a national board member of Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation; and board member of the Scripps Clinic Foundation of Medicine and Science.