I can’t take a walk without pruning the trail, and I can’t enter a home without commenting on the decorations.” Dr. “My friends all know that I am an indefatigable artist. Tom Clark who had to go to night school to learn art as Davidson College back then did not have a Fine Arts Department. “I used to sit sketching in my notebook in classes while other people were writing what I should have been writing,” recalls Dr. As a matter of fact he was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award at Davidson College in 1989, exactly forty years after his father had received his. Clark’s father went to Davidson, as did other family members. Religion played an important role in what he taught and the gnomes which he eventually sculpted to cast a magic spell over the country’s collectibles market. Before becoming a professor at Davidson College, he served briefly as a missionary in the Appalachian Mountains. He also trained in sculpture at Roberts School of Art in Aberdeen, the Museum School of Art in Boston Massachusetts, and at City and Guilds of London School of Art. in Theology from University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He continued his education receiving a Bachelor’s in Divinity from Union Theological Seminary and a Ph.D.

Thomas Fetzer Clark a native of Elizabethtown, North Carolina, graduated from Davidson College in 1949 with a degree in English. On JanuClark joined Global Public Affairs, Canada's largest privately owned public affairs firm, as its Chair of Public Affairs and Communications.Dr. Global News announced Clark would retire as of January 1, 2017, ending his 40-plus year career in journalism. In this role he was the inaugural host of the network's Sunday morning political talk show The West Block. On September 1, 2011, Clark was appointed chief political correspondent for Global Television Network. However, Clark later said that he was 'neither angry nor bitter' about the choice of LaFlamme, and that CTV decided to buy out his contract. He had been considered one of the frontrunners to succeed Lloyd Robertson as CTV National News anchor with his departure coming shortly after Lisa LaFlamme was named Robertson's successor, it was widely speculated that Clark's departure was tied to having been passed over. On September 7, 2010, CTV announced Clark was leaving the network to pursue other opportunities. He also hosted, and served as senior correspondent on CTV's W-FIVE for eight years, and hosted the political news show Power Play on CTV News Channel. He was the first Canadian journalist to ever interview U.S. In all, Clark has covered six theatres of war. He was among the first to cover the Ethiopian famine in 1984, was in Berlin in 1989 to witness the fall of the wall, and was the only Canadian reporter in Yugoslavia when NATO launched aerial war against Serbia in 1999. Career Ĭlark served as CTV's China Bureau Chief in the early 1980s. 1944)īesides journalism, Clark is a licensed pilot and flies a floatplane. uncle James Murray Clark (son of Greg) was also a reporter with the Star (d.great-uncle Gregory Clark (1892–1977) was an acclaimed writer and journalist with both the Toronto Star and the Toronto Telegram.father Joseph Adair Porter Clark (1921–2013) was the founder, CEO and President of Canada NewsWire.grandfather Joseph William Greig Clark (1896–1956) RAF aviator and reporter for the Toronto Star.great-grandfather Joseph Thomas Clark was managing editor of the Toronto Star and Saturday Night.Ĭlark comes from a family of journalists: Clark attended Carleton University to study journalism, but left for a news job in Montreal. He graduated from Upper Canada College in 1971. Currently, he serves as Consul General to New York.Ĭlark was born in the early 1950s (1952 or 1953) to Joseph Adair Porter Clark and Patricia Grant, and raised in Toronto. A longtime reporter and anchor for CTV National News and CTV News Channel, he moved to Global News in 2011 before retiring from journalism in 2016. Tom Clark (born 1952/1953) is a Canadian former television journalist.

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