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William Clark
Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Professor Emeritus
Contact information
- E-mail: william.clark at verizon dot net
- Mailing address:
Department of Foreign Languages
Salem State College
352 Lafayette Street
Salem, MA 01970-5353
Retirement biography (Summer 2003)
FRENCH PROFESSOR RETIRES FROM DIVERSE TEACHING CAREER
William Clark of 8 Warren Road, Marblehead, has retired from the Salem State College Foreign Language Department. A French professor at Salem State since 1969, he was for many years college supervisor of practice teachers in French and advisor to the French Minor. He served three years as chair of his department.
Professor Clark taught a variety of courses outside the French classroom, including English Composition and World Literature in the college English Department, Methods of Teaching French in the Education Department, and The First Year Seminar in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. An avid avocational musician, he often taught flute and recorder in the college Music Department. For several years he taught a wine appreciation course, The Wines of France and California, at North Shore Community College.
In 1981 he was one of a small group of musicians who joined conductor Royston Nash in founding the Marblehead based chamber orchestra Symphony by the Sea. He has been that orchestra's program annotator since its inception and has also published reviews of local concerts and recitals. He has performed with Symphony by the Sea and with the New England Baroque Ensemble.
Clark holds three degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, B.A. and M.A. degrees in French and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, emphasis French. His main scholarly interest is 19th century French rationalism, an area in which he has published a number of articles.
His wife, Beverly Seger Clark, a school psychologist in the Danvers School District, is also principal flutist with Symphony by the Sea. They have three children. Paul Clark of Salem is a department manager at Whole Foods Market in Swampscott. Erika Clark Griffin, also of Salem is a licensed independent clinical social worker. Jonathan Clark of Somerville works in document imaging for Closing Binders, Inc., in Cambridge and is a free lance musician.
View Dr. Clark's Photo Album
Background
- Ph.D. Romance Languages and Literatures, Emphasis French, University of California, Berkeley
- M.A. French, University of California, Berkeley
- B.A. French, University of California, Berkeley
- Doctoral dissertation: Camille Mauclair and the Religion of Art. (396 pages, unpublished.) Professors Basil Guy and Georges Longrée, directors.
- Rationalism in 19th Century France
- music reviews of local concerts and recitals
- articles on music, both jazz and classical
- program annotator for area chamber orchestra
- wine appreciation instructor
- Avocational musician (flute, recorder)
Some publications (in chronological order)
"Chatham Chorale Sings 'Sacred Service.' " Cape Cod Register, "What's Going On Here" magazine, May 24, 1984, 10. (Review, Ernest Bloch's "Sacred Service" for chorus, soloist and orchestra.)
"Sans Souci Trio." Cape Cod Register, "What's Going On Here" magazine, August 2, 1984, 9. (Review)
"Open Rehearsal: Laderman's Oboe Quartet." Cape Cod Register, "What's Going On Here" magazine, August 30, 1984, 9. (Music review and interview with Laderman.)
"William 'Count' Basie, American Pianist and Band Leader." The Annual Obituary 1984, 195-198.Saint James Press, 1985.
"John F. Megehan, American Jazz Pianist and Teacher." The Annual Obituary 1984, 233-234.Saint James Press, 1985.
"Harpsichord Superstar Shines at Killington." North Shore Magazine, June 10, 1989. (Review of solo recital by Igor Kipnis.)
"Slayer of the Soul: Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church, by Stephen J. Rossetti." The American Rationalist, vol. 37 no. 4 (November-December 1992), 62. (Book review)
"The Atheism of Stendhal: Prosper Mérimée's Essay 'H.B.'." The American Rationalist, vol. 45, no. 6 (Nov/Dec 2000), 9-14.
"Prosper Mérimée, Author, Archeologist, 'Matter of Fact Man.'" The American Rationalist, vol. 47, no. 2 (March/April 2002), 8-13.
"Georges Clemenceau, Journalist, Statesman, Atheist." Freethought Today, vol. 19, no. 6 (August 2002), 6-7. [link to journal]
"Great Minds: Emile Littré, 1801-1881." Free Inquiry, vol. 22, no 4 (Fall 2002), 55-56. [link to journal]
"Littré, Maximilien-Paul-Emile. Philologist, positivist." In: The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Press. (Forthcoming)