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Guide to the

Lloyd C. Clark, Jr. Papers
1920s-1991

12.5 linear ft.

Collection Number: AR352

 Prepared by
James Matthew Snapp and Sean Duncan
September 1993

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Women's Physical Education Class, c1938. From box 25, folder 21.

CITATION: Lloyd C. Clark, Jr. Papers, AR352, Box number, Folder number, Special Collections Division, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries

Table of Contents

Biography
Scope and Contents
Provenance
Literary Rights
Note to the Researcher
Container List
Family Correspondence
General Correspondence
Miscellany

Biography Lloyd Clayton Clark, Jr. was born in Belton, Texas, August 4th, 1923 to Lloyd C. Clark and Hattie Mae (Taylor). He attended North Texas Agricultural College (now the University of Texas at Arlington) from September 1940 to September 1942. At NTAC he edited The Shorthorn and The Summer School Breeze. Clark was commander of the cadet corps from June to September 1942--the first time ROTC was offered by the college during a summer term. Further education included a Bachelor of Science in journalism (1948) from Southern Methodist University, Dallas; Bachelor of Foreign Trade (1949) from the American Graduate School of International Management, Glendale, Arizona; and a Master of Public Administration (1972) from Arizona State University, Tempe. Clark joined the U.S. Army Enlisted Reserve Corps while an advanced corps cadet at Louisiana State University in the fall of 1942. When the Army activated the LSU ROTC students in the spring of 1943, he was assigned to the Armored Force at Fort Knox, KY. At the end of basic training, he was hospitalized with a lesion on his right lung, diagnosed as tuberculosis. After four months of hospitalization he was returned to limited duty and became editor of The Camp Hood News (Texas). Found fit for full duty in the fall of 1944, he was sent to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant, Ordnance Corps, upon completion of Officer Candidate School. He served as the APG public relations officer until separated from active duty in July 1946. As a reserve officer, Clark graduated from the Command & General Staff College's resident course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1964. Returning to active duty in 1967, he served as an instructor and assistant secretary of the U.S. Army Civil Affairs School, Fort Gordon, Georgia, until July 1970. Back to civilian life, Clark remained active in the reserve, being promoted to colonel in 1975 and retiring in 1979 as director of the National Defense University's Arizona classes. Interspersed with the periods of active army service, Clark spent two decades in newspaper reporting and editing, retiring from that field of journalism as assistant editor and publisher of The Arizona Weekly Gazette (now the Arizona Business Gazette) in 1966. He founded the Council on Abandoned Military Posts - U.S.A., Inc. that year. CAMP, now known as the Council on America's Military Past, has more that 1,200 members who are interested in preserving the nation's military heritage.

Lloyd Clark and Jean Reeves of Prescott, Arizona, were married in 1950. They have three married children: Roger, Cynthia (Hotchkiss), and Candyce (Eggen). His mother, Hattie May Massie, celebrated her 96th birthday in August 1993 and lives near her son in Arizona. She was the youngest of 11 children of Henry Kirby Taylor and his wife, Sallie, and resided on the campus of Arlington Training School while her father was president from 1913 to 1916 of that forerunner of UTA.

Clark co-founded (with Charles Montooth) the Rail Passenger Association of the Southwest in 1978 and remains an active promoter of rail passenger service. Since 1980 he has been a member of the Part-time Faculty Association of Rio Salado Community College, Phoenix, teaching credit courses in Arizona history and government, and specialty classes in such diverse subjects as "Casablanca, the Movie" and "Trains and Rail Travel." He hikes regularly and maintains steady correspondence with "friends, relatives, and countrymen." He is a director of the Arizona Historical Society.

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Scope and Contents

The Lloyd Clark papers consist of the personal correspondence files of Lloyd Clark, Jr. from his childhood up to 1991. Contained in twenty-five (25) boxes, these files trace the life of Lloyd Clark from the time he was a student at the North Texas Agricultural College, through his service in World War II, to his life as a reporter in Arizona, his second career in public service, and his involvement in CAMP and the Rio Salado Community College.

There are two main series in the collection. The first twelve (12) boxes include Lloyd Clark's family correspondence from his childhood through 1991. Boxes thirteen through twenty-four (13-24) contain correspondence with those outside his family, for roughly the same period. Both series are arranged chronologically. The last box, number twenty-five (25), contains folders dealing with a variety of special subjects important in Mr. Clark's life. These include folders relating to life at NTAC in 1941, his stay at an Army camp in Kentucky, materials related to the Camp Hood News, correspondence with UTA from 1969 to 1989, his involvement with rail transit, his work with CAMP, his courses at Rio Salado Community College, and last, several photographs of the Arlington Training School, circa 1916.

All records are filed in acid-free folders. Please use the guide (container list) that follows to select the boxes that you wish to view. Only one box will be given to a researcher at a time. The collection contains twenty-five (25) boxes, a total of twelve and a half (12.5) linear feet.

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Provenance

The Lloyd Clark papers were donated on June 25, 1992 to the University of Texas at Arlington by Lloyd Clark, Jr. Mr. Clark transferred to UTA all legal title, copyright, and literary property rights to the materials included in the collection. Materials in Box 25, folders 15-22, were donated in 1994 and 1996.

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Literary Rights

Permission to publish any material from the Lloyd Clark papers must be obtained from the Division of Special Collections, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries.

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Note to the Researcher

This collection contained materials that were deaccessioned as containing little historical value, or as not pertinent to the collection policy of the Division of Special Collections, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Much of Mr. Clark's work during his tenure as a reporter in Arizona is very enlightening about a crucial period in Arizona history, but is not relevant to a Texas-focused collection. Neither were many of the records from Mr. Clark's time in the Arizona Department of Transportation. All deaccessioned materials were returned to Lloyd Clark, Jr.

Note: 352-25-15 through 21 contains material donated in 1994 and 1996. Folders 18-21 were added on June 11, 1996.

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Container List
Family Correspondence

Box 1
Folder(s) Description
The Family Correspondence series contains letters to and from Lloyd Clark with his relatives. Major correspondents are his mother (Hattie May Clark, later Massie), his father (Lloyd Clark, Sr.), and later on his wife (Jean) and children (Roger, Cynthia, and Candyce).
  1. 1920's 
  2. 1930's
  3. 1940
  4. 1941
  5. 1941-1942
  6. Jan. 5 - June 16, 1943
  7. June 19 - July 24, 1943
  8. Aug. 1 - Sept. 5, 1943

  9. Sept. 8 - Oct. 25, 1943

  10. Oct. 28 - Nov. 16, 1943

  11. Nov. 21 - Dec. 15, 1943

  12. Dec. 15 - Dec. 30, 1943

Box 2
Folder(s) Description

  1. Jan. 2 - Feb. 14, 1944
  2. Feb. 16 - Mar. 14, 1944

  3. Mar. 15 - Apr. 26, 1944

  4. Apr. 27 - May 16, 1944

  5. May 18 - July 30, 1944

  6. Aug. 2 - Dec. 30, 1944

  7. 1945

  8. Jan. 1 - Apr. 28, 1946

  9. May 2 - Aug. 21, 1946, Dec. 16, 1946

  10. 1947

  11. Jan. - Apr. 29, 1948

  12. May 1 - Sept., 1948

  13. Oct. 4 - Dec. 28, 1948

Box 3
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 2 - May 30, 1949

  2. Apr. 1 - June 23, 1949

  3. July 1 - Sept. 9, 1949

  4. Sept. 14 - Dec. 30, 1949

  5. Jan. 5 - Mar. 30, 1950

  6. Apr. 5 - June 30, 1950

  7. July 1 - Aug. 30, 1950

  8. Sept. 1 - Dec., 1950

  9. 1951

  10. 1952

  11. 1953

  12. 1954

  13. 1955

  14. 1956

  15. 1957

Box 4
Folder(s) Description
  1. 1958

  2. 1959

  3. 1960

  4. Jan. 2 - June 30, 1961

  5. July 12 - Dec. 30, 1961

  6. 1962

  7. Jan. 3 - May 10, 1963

  8. May 11 - Dec. 29, 1963

  9. Jan. 2 - May 21, 1964

  10. May 23 - Aug. 23, 1964

  11. Sept. 1 - Dec. 29, 1964

  12. Jan. 4 - June 30, 1965

  13. July 5 - Dec. 31, 1965

Box 5
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 4 - May 27, 1966

  2. June, 1966

  3. July 5 - Sept. 15, 1966

  4. Sept. 16 - Dec. 30, 1966

  5. Jan. 1 - Mar. 29, 1967

  6. Apr. 2 - June 30, 1967

  7. July 1 - Sept. 29, 1967

  8. Oct. 2 - Dec. 29, 1967

Box 6
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 2 - Mar. 31, 1968

  2. Apr. 2 - June 29, 1968

  3. July 2 - Aug. 31, 1968

  4. Sept. 5 - Dec. 30, 1968

  5. Jan. 5 - Mar. 30, 1969

  6. Apr. 1 - June 29, 1969

  7. July 1 - Aug. 28, 1969

  8. Sept. 2 - Oct. 30, 1969

  9. Nov. 1 - Dec. 31, 1969

Box 7
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 3 - Mar. 31, 1970

  2. Apr. 1 - June 18, 1970

  3. June 19 - July 30, 1970

  4. Aug. 1 - Sept. 30, 1970

  5. Oct. 3 - Dec. 30, 1970

  6. Jan. - Mar. 31, 1971

  7. Apr. - June 30, 1971

  8. July 3 - Sept. 29, 1971

  9. Oct. 2 - Dec. 30, 1971

Box 8
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 2 - Mar. 29, 1972

  2. Apr. 3 - June 30, 1972

  3. July 2 - Sept. 28, 1972

  4. Oct. 2 - Dec. 26, 1972

  5. Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1973

  6. May 4 - June 30, 1973

  7. July 1 - Sept. 30, 1973

  8. Oct. 1 - Dec. 30, 1973

  9. Jan. 1 - Mar. 31, 1974

  10. Apr. 2 - June 30, 1974

  11. July 1 - Sept. 28, 1974

  12. Oct. 3 - Dec. 31, 1974

Box 9
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan 1 - Apr. 29, 1975

  2. May 1 - June 25, 1975

  3. July 1 - Sept. 30, 1975

  4. Oct. 1 - Dec. 30, 1975

  5. Jan. 2 - Mar. 31, 1976

  6. Apr. 5 - June 30, 1976

  7. July 4 - Sept. 30, 1976

  8. Oct. 4 - Dec. 30, 1976

Box 10
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan 2 - Mar. 31, 1977

  2. Apr. 4 - June 29, 1977

  3. July 1 - Sept. 30, 1977

  4. Oct. 1 - Dec. 27, 1977

  5. Jan. 2 - Mar. 28, 1978

  6. Apr. 1 - June 29, 1978

  7. July 5 - Sept. 26, 1978

  8. Oct. 4 - Dec. 28, 1978

  9. Jan. 7 - Mar. 29, 1979

  10. Apr. 1 - June 30, 1979

  11. July 1 - Aug. 31, 1979

  12. Sept. 1 - Dec. 1979

  Box 12
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 1 - Mar. 30, 1980

  2. Apr. 2 - June 26, 1980

  3. July 2 - Dec. 28, 1980

  4. Jan. 1 - Mar. 31, 1981

  5. Apr. 1 - June 30, 1981

  6. July 2 - Dec. 31, 1981

  7. Jan. 1 - June 30, 1982

  8. July 1 - Dec. 31, 1982

  9. Jan. 2 - June 29, 1983

  10. July 1 - Dec. 31, 1983

  11. Jan. 1 - June 25, 1984

  12. July 2 - Dec., 1984

Box 12
Folder(s) Description
  1. 1985

  2. 1986

  3. 1988

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General Correspondence The General Correspondence series contains all correspondence to and from Lloyd Clark with those who are not his relatives. He maintained letters with people he had met through all stages of his life. This series also contains business correspondence relating to Lloyd Clark's activities in CAMP and his other many activities. Box 13
Folder(s) Description
  1. 1943

  2. 1944

  3. 1945

  4. 1946

  5. Jan. 1 - Mar. 28, 1947

  6. Apr. 1 - June 30, 1947

  7. July 2 - Dec. 20, 1947

  8. Jan. 5 - June 30, 1948

  9. July 1 - Dec. 31, 1948

  10. Girlfriends, 1946-1948

Box 14
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 1 - Apr. 11, 1949

  2. Apr. 12 - June 30, 1949

  3. July 1 - Sept. 14, 1949

  4. Sept. 16 - Dec. 30, 1949

  5. Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1950

  6. Sept. 12 - Dec. 29, 1950

  7. Jan. 2 - June 30, 1951

  8. July 2 - Dec. 29, 1951

  9. Feb. 2 - June 30, 1952

  10. July 1 - Dec. 31, 1952

Box 15
Folder(s) Description
  1. 1953

  2. Jan. 1 - May 28, 1954

  3. June 1 - Dec. 24, 1954

  4. Jan. 4 - Apr. 28, 1955

  5. May 2 - Aug. 27, 1955

  6. Sept. 1 - Dec. 26, 1955

  7. Jan. 3 - Aug. 28, 1956

  8. Sept. 1 - Dec. 21, 1956

Box 16
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 3 - June 28, 1957

  2. July 5 - Dec. 31, 1957

  3. 1958

  4. Jan. 1 - Apr. 29, 1959

  5. May 1 - Aug, 31, 1959

  6. Sept. 1 - Dec. 24, 1959

  7. Jan. 2 - June 21, 1960

  8. Aug. 1 - Dec. 29, 1960

Box 17
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 2 - June 30, 1961

  2. July 3 - Dec, 26, 1961

  3. Jan. 8 - Apr. 26, 1962

  4. May 2 - Aug. 31, 1962

  5. Sept. 4 - Dec. 30, 1962

  6. 1963

  7. Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1964

  8. May 1 - Aug. 30, 1964

  9. Sept. 4 - Dec. 29, 1964

Box 18
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 14 - July 31, 1965

  2. Aug. 1 - Dec. 30, 1965

  3. Jan. 3 - May 31, 1966

  4. June 1 - Aug. 30, 1966

  5. Sept. 1 - Dec. 1966

  6. Jan. 1 - June 26, 1967

  7. July 2 - Dec. 31, 1967

  8. Jan. 5 - June 23, 1968

  9. June 27 - Dec. 25, 1968

  10. Jan. 2 - June 29, 1969

  11. July 6 - Dec. 31, 1969

Box 19
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 1 - June 24, 1970

  2. July 2 - Sept. 29, 1970

  3. Oct. 2 - Dec. 30, 1970

  4. Jan. 2 - Apr. 14, 1971

  5. Apr. 17 - Aug. 28, 1971

  6. Sept. 1 - Dec. 29, 1971

  7. Jan. 1 - June 28, 1972

  8. July 2 - Dec. 31, 1972

  9. Jan. 3 - June 14, 1973

  10. July 2 - Dec. 30, 1973

  11. 1974

  12. 1975

Box 20
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 2 - June 30, 1976

  2. July 2 - Dec. 29, 1976

  3. Jan. 2 - June 25, 1977

  4. July 1 - Dec. 28, 1977

  5. Jan. - June 25, 1978

  6. July 3 - Dec. 3, 1978

  7. Jan. 1 - June 27, 1979

  8. July 3 - Dec. 31, 1979

  9. 1980

Box 21
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 2 - June 27, 1981

  2. July 9 - Dec. 30, 1981

  3. 1982

  4. 1983

  5. Jan. 13 - June 22, 1984

  6. July 2 - Dec. 31, 1984

  7. Jan. 1 - Mar. 31, 1985

  8. Apr. 5 - June 26, 1985

  9. July 1 - Sept. 30, 1985

  10. Oct. 1 - Dec. 26, 1985

Box 22
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 3 - Mar. 31, 1986

  2. Apr. 1 - July 31, 1986

  3. Aug. 2 - Sept. 30, 1986

  4. Oct. 2 - Dec. 29, 1986

  5. Jan. 4 - Mar. 26, 1987

  6. Apr. 1 - June 30, 1987

  7. July 1 - Sept. 30, 1987

  8. Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, 1987

Box 23
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 4 - Mar. 31, 1988

  2. Apr. 1 - June 28, 1988

  3. July 3 - Sept. 28, 1988

  4. Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, 1988

  5. Jan. 9 - Mar. 24, 1989

  6. Apr. 3 - June 28, 1989

  7. July 1 - Sept. 30, 1989

  8. Oct. 2 - Dec. 31, 1989

Box 24
Folder(s) Description
  1. Jan. 1 - Mar. 30, 1990

  2. Apr. 2 - June 30, 1990

  3. July 2 - Sept. 30, 1990

  4. Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, 1990

  5. Jan. 1 - Mar. 30, 1991

  6. Apr. 2 - June 30, 1991

  7. July 1 - Aug. 20, 1991

  8. Aug. 21 - Sept. 30, 1991

  9. Oct. 1 - Dec. 30, 1991

Box 25
Folder(s) Description
  1. North Texas Agricultural College, 1941
  2. Kentucky, 1943-1944
  3. Camp Hood News, 1944-1945
  4. University of Texas at Arlington, 1969-1989
  5. Rail, 1984-1985
  6. Council on Abandoned Military Posts; (CAMP), 1984-1985
  7. Council on Abandoned Military Posts; (CAMP). 1986-1988
  8. Rio Salado Community College, 1984
  9. Rio Salado Community College, 1985
  10. Rio Salado Community College, 1986
  11. Rio Salado Community College, 1987
  12. Rio Salado Community College, 1988-1989
  13. Rio Salado Community College, 1989
  14. Photographs- Arlington Training School, c. 1914, 1916; Photo A- Youngsters wrestle while other Arlington Training School Cadets watch. 
  15. Photographs- Arlington Training School, c. 1916
  16. Photo B- Pre-World War II uniforms were the dress at Arlington Training School, 1913-1916. 
  17. The Main Building is in the background, with the dormitory and dining hall structure in the foreground.
  18. Photo C- Tom Ditto, ATS cook is in the kitchen. Sarah "Sally" Moore, eldest daughter of Victor Ivan Moore, coach and teacher at ATS, remembered in later years that she and her older brother, Victor J., and her younger brother, Henry, used to drop "little straws and things through a hole in the ceiling to Tom's irritation."
  19. Photo D- On the ATS grounds, the adults (from left) are: Kirby Taylor, Lucile Moore, Eunice Taylor, and Walter Taylor. Kirby, Lucile and Walter were children of Henry Kirby and Sallie B. Taylor. The children (from left) are: Henry Moore, Victor Moore, Jr., Lucile Moore (held by her mother), Willie Sandifer, a niece of Sallie B. Taylor, and Sarah "Sally" Moore. Eunice was the wife of Walter Taylor and they were the parents of Barbee, Elaine, and Lynette Taylor, all of whom graduated from NTAC;
  20. Photo E- On the ATS grounds are (standing from left): Josiah Jernigan Godbey, teacher; John "Jack" Carter Taylor; Henry Kirby Taylor; and Victor Ivan Moore. Seated are Emma Lee Godbey, wife of "Joe"; Hattie May Taylor (Lloyd Clark's mother); Sally B. Taylor, wife of H.K.; Lucile Moore, wife of Victor Ivan Moore, holding their youngest son, Henry; and Miss Mame? (housekeeper). Children in front are Victor Ivan Moore, Jr., and Sarah "Sally" Moore. 
  21. Photographs from the album of Mrs. W. Byron Garrett (Lucile Moore), 4526 Ivanhoe, Houston, TX 77027.
  22. Photograph, H. K. Taylor, 1918, n.d.
  23. The House of Seven Gables. Signed by Hattie May Taylor, Lloyd Clark's mother while a student here.
  24. Hattie May Massie, Taped interview, August 25, 1993, and memorial brochure.
  25. Photographs, Sallie Brinkley Taylor (wife of H. K. Taylor), 1915, 1933, n.d.
  26. Taylor family, UTA President's Scholarship brochure, 1996.
  27. Photograph, Sunday afternoon in Arlington, 1915.
  28. Newspaper article re All-Texas Sculptors Show, 1941. Photographs: Women's exercise class, c. 1938 [*See photo at beginning of the finding aid]; Cadet Officer's Club at Meadowbrook Country Club,1942.

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