Clark Says
'No Plans';
To Retire
by Jim Knight
Dan Clark says he has “no
plans” after June, 1950.
That is the date he will retire
from his present position as head
of the history department—a posi
tion he has held since 1940.
However, it’s a safe bet that
Dr. Clark will have little time to
follow his hobby of gardening. His
passion for history and his active
nature are almost certain to keep
him well-occupied and in the edu
cational limelight for years to
come.
Besides spending 38 of his 64
years teaching, Dr. Clark has
found time to travel through much
of the United States and Europe,
and write four books and numer
ous articles.
With his wife and two small
children—and a year’s leave of
absence from the University—Dr.
Clark drove to the Atlantic coast,
via San Francisco, Los Angeles,
the Grand Canyon, and Washing
ton, D.C., in 1929. From there he
sailed to Europe to do research
- * work on his book “The West in
American History.”
It was in Europe that he learned
that not everyone lived in “high
gear” American fashion. While he
got to visit many of the world’s
outstanding libraries, he was dis
appointed when he went to Paris
to study in the Bibliotheque Na
tionale. He arrived there just in
time for the yearly two-week
cleanup, and neither distinguished
scholars nor the eternal search for
truth were important enough to
open the locked doors.
“I was very impressed with the
‘leisurely attitude’ of Europeans,”
Dr. Clark said.
His faith in people’s “basic hon
esty” was also given a boost in
Europe. He said he noticed busi
nessmen in England carried their
receipts in sacks over their shoul
ders—as contrasted to the ar
mored car in the United States.
What little spare time Dr. Clark
had in Europe, he spent photo
graphing “beautiful and unusual
doorways,” a hobby long since
relegated to a passive role.
The eight years Dr. Clark spent
in painstaking research for and
the writing of his book were well
spent, for, he explained, it has
been used as a text in more than
100 universities.
! Three other books were written
by Dr. Clark before his text book.
^fcOne of them, “The History of Sen
atorial Elections in Iowa,” was
published in 1912, just two years
after he had received the Ph.D.
degree from the University of
Iowa. He also wrote “The Govern
ment of Iowa” and the biography
of Samuel Jordan Kirkwood.
Eye trouble kept Dr. Clark on
the deferred list during World War
I, so he took time off from teach
ing to serve with the Red Cross at
Camp Lewis, Washington. He was
assistant director in charge of
j home service, a rank equivalent to
j an army captain in “social status.”
While with the Red Cross, he
f was instrumental in getting fur
| loughs and loans for needy en
listed men. The losses from the
many loans made to servicemen
were negligible, he said.
Wearing a regular army officers
uniform, minus army insignia,
proved embarrassing to Dr. Clark
at times. He is a modest man, and
the occasional salutes he received
from rookies made him feel rather
uncomfortable.
His duty at Camp Lewis and
Bremerton was a determining fac
tor in his decision to move west
from Iowa, where he had been a
faculty member of Iowa Univer
sity from 1909 to 1918.
By Margaret Edwards
The shortest route from educa
tion to basketball has for at least
25 years presented a problem to
University of Oregon officials,
students, and Eugene townspeople
alike.
“The ancient cemetery which
flanks Kincaid Street and the Ed
ucation building on the east and
University Street with McArthur
Court on the west, was established
by the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows in 1871, a year before the
University was founded. The idea
of incorporating the cemetery to
the school evolved when new Uni
versity buildings began to sur
round it.
This wasn’t always the case.
The cemetery used to lie miles out
of town and slow-moving funeral
processions toiled through dust or
mud for half a day to reach it.
Its entrance was once marked by
three great symbolic links until
someone across the valley shot
them down because they reminded
him of Teddy Roosevelt’s teeth or
glasses.
"Now, however, it lies within the
city limits,” according to the Em
erald issued on February 24, 1924,
which remarked, “Almost as old
as the graveyard itself, is the story
that it is to be removed to make
room for the steadily expanding
University.”
The same article explained that
the Odd Fellows had sold all the
available space in the old ceme
tery to purchase a new one out
side town and that the IOOF had
failed to provide a fund for keep
ing the graveyard tended. Since
that time the lot owners, repre
sented by the trustees of the Pio
neer Memorial Association have
not had enough money to do the
job adequately.
Sporadic movements have been
initiated to lift the face of the six
block burial ground. The most im
portant of these came in 1946
when it was the center of a clean
up campaign conducted by the
association which aimed to collect
$1500 before Memorial Day. The
money was used for improvements
such as trimming the trees and
tending the lawns.
But these drives, while tempor
arily successful, have not solved
the long-range problem of the
future of the graveyard. Two solu
tions have been offered by those
who are interested in the situation,
however, and we would like to out
line them for you in the hope that
your interest will speed up the
solving of the problem.
A plan to remove the graves to
another suitable cemetery has been
suggested. This would entail giv
ing written notice to the family
or next of kin of the deceased if
El
known, and if unknown, that no
tice of the removal be published
for at least four successive weeks
in a newspaper of general circu
lation in the county.
The basic problem here would be
one of money. It is estimated that
it would cost half a million dollars
which neither the city of Eugene
nor the University could easily af
ford.
Public opinion on the matter is
divided. A column by Frederick S.
Dunn in the May 2, 1935 issue of
the Emerald states that students
of that time would greatly miss
the cemetery if it were removed
while last year a reader wrote the
Emerald to criticize:
“The officials who disbelieve
completely in future planning and
who are so nearsighted that they
are stupidly allowing a cemetery
to flourish in the center of the
campus. It’s harmful to campus
beauty, retarding to the Univer
sity’s building program, and com
pletely silly in the minds of thous
ands of students who must walk
to class past tombstones and
markers.”
This irate reader expressed
shock at seeing the burial crew at
work, but failed to explain why a
person owning property there
shouldn’t bury his dead in the fam
ily plot and also forgot to include
his plan for relieving the situation.
“The pioneers of the community
are buried there,” Judge Fred
Fisk, former secretary of the Pio
neer Memorial Association, point
ed out. “It is an historic landmark
of the city.”
Fred G. Stickels, present secre
tary mentioned the prominent men
who are buried there including
Joshua Walton, an ex-county judge
who was very active in Eugene.
“The younger people in town
would like to see it moved but
the older ones wish to keep it as
it is,” was the opinion of R. W.
Deverell, graduate of the U. of O.
and an associate in the Security
Savings and Loan Association, 111
E. Broadway.
The second plan was proposed to
the University by the lot owners
about 10 years ago according to
Judge Fish. The association would
deed the cemetery to the school for
the purpose of beautifying it. It
would be kept in its present but a
park would be built within the
cemetery with paved streets and
walks and well-cared-for trees and
lawns.
In 1947 William Tugman, man
aging editor o fthe Eugene Regis
ter-Guard, added to this plan a pro
posal to build a chapel in the center
of the cemetery for the use of Uni
versity students. He explained that
there is a cleared plot of land 25
feet square that would make an
ideal spot for such a structure.
Harvard has such a nonsectarian
chapel. The progam regularly
brings outstanding religious speak
ers to the campus and is a very use
ful addition to the University.
If this second plan were to be ac
cepted by the school it would prob
ably include taking down the head
stones and erecting markers to en
able power mowers to be used for
cutting the lawns. This would in
volve getting the written legal con
cent of all the heirs. To find this
scattered group a lawyer would
probably have to be hired for two
or three years, according to Tug
man.
tsen uorns .president of the as
sociation, stressed the difficulties
involved in this process when he re
marked that, “After the second
generation you usually don’t know
where your ancestors are buried.”
This plan would also call for a
special act of the legislature since
under the present law a university
may not own such a park.
These are two possible solutions
to the problem of the cemetery.
They are difficult but, to all ap
pearance, worth working for. This
is YOUR University. What should
be done about it ?
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in front of us on our way home
from work.
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