Tributes to
J. Desmond Clark
1916-2002
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I was privileged to see how deeply Desmond Clark cared for students and the rites of educational passage. A few years after my graduation I came back to Berkeley as a Lecturer in Anthropology. In the spring of 1997 a number of the students I had taught were graduating and I attended the ceremony at Zellerbach Hall to cheer them on. I saw Desmond in the foyer and he asked me to join him in the front row. He wanted to see each student as best he could as they exited the stage with their diplomas. It is a moment in one's life charged with accomplishment, celebration, family and completion. Desmond brought as much verve to that auditorium as any of the students, many of whom he did not know. This was just one of the many encounters I had with Desmond Clark in which he reveled in the positive, a model of comportment to us all.

-Walter Hartwig, Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine