Historical Timeline

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1940 Honorary Degrees Awarded

Johannes A.C. Fagginger Auer, Parkman Professor of Theology, Harvard University (Litt.D.)
Hu Shih, Ambassador from China to the United States (LL.D.)

1941 Honorary Degrees Awarded

George Hubbard Blakeslee, Professor of History and International Relations, Clark University (LL.D.)
Frederick Raymond Clee, Pastor of the Old Bergen Church, Jersey City, New Jersey (Litt.D.)
Katharine Cornell, Actress (F.A.D.)
Isadore Lubin, Economist and statistician, Economic Advisor to the President of the United States (FDR) (LL.D.)
Benjamin Shores Merigold, Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Chemical Laboratories, Clark University (D.Sc.)
Howard Washington Odum, Director of the Institute for Social Research, University of North Carolina (L.H.D.)
Frank Ross McCoy, United States Air Force, Retired, President of the Foreign Policy Association (LL.D.)
Lowell Thomas, Author, explorer, and news commentator (L.H.D.)

1942 Women enroll at Clark as undergraduates. This first class of women receive their bachelor's degrees in 1946.

Paul Siple Ph.D. '39 names a mountain range in Antarctica in honor of Clark.

Honorary Degrees Awarded

Robert Ware Bodfish, Springfield attorney and civic leader (M.A.)
Mabel Knowles Gage, Worcester philanthropist and civic leader (D.C.L.)
Rosabelle Jacobus, Director of the Worcester Society of District Nursing (M.C.S.)
Hiram Newton Rasely,, Vice Presidentof Burdett Business College, Boston (M.A.)
Harry Ervin Yarnell, Vice Admiral, U.S.N. retired, former commander of the Asiatic Fleet (LL.D.)

1943 >Honorary Degrees Awarded

Wat Tyler Cluverius, President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Admiral, U.S.N. retired (LL.D.)
Esther Forbes, Author (Litt.D.)
Joseph Clark Grew, Former Ambassador to Japan (LL.D.)

1947 Howard B. Jefferson is inaugurated as the third president of Clark University.

1949 Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud, is a guest lecturer at the University's 60th-anniversary celebration.

Fun Facts

1942 Crew team is formed.
1943 A women's basketball team is organized and coached by Hazel Hughes, who becomes Clark's first dean of women in 1954.
1947 The Pleiades women's honor society is formed with seven members.