Mr. Marion Borin Clark This is Me

Education

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1. 1. Obituaries (February 6, 2002)

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   Published on: 2/6/2002   Last Visited: 2/9/2002

   Mr. Clark attended school in the Whisman School District and Mountain View High School. After his service in the U.S. Navy, he graduated from Palo Alto High Evening School.
   
   During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific. He was a signalman who was sometimes on detached duty to the merchant marines.
   
   Mr. Clark received his bachelor's degree in education and his master's degree in administration from San Jose State University. He was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Sigma and Kappa Delta Pi honorary fraternities.
   
   He was an elementary school teacher and later became a principal in the Palo Alto Unified School District. He served on the district's mathematics, science and family life committees.
   
   He was a leader in the Back-to-Basics movement in the United States. Mr. Clark was the first principal of Palo Alto's Hoover Back-to-Basics School. He also wrote much of the curriculum that was adopted nationwide for structured alternative schools. He was on the board of the Basic Education Leadership Conference and was one of the main speakers at their 1979 and 1980 national conferences. One of the three books he authored was on basic education.
   
   Mr. Clark was active in the Masons, was president of the Palo Alto Shrine Club, belonged to the California Teachers Association and the California Association of School Administrators, was a Boy Scout leader, and actively encouraged conservation.
   
   Mr. Clark is survived by his wife, Marion Borin Clark; sons, Kent Wayne Clark, George Burton Clark and Donald Alexander Clark; and siblings, Pat, David and Betty.
   
   Services were held.