Charles Walter Clarke Jr. ’43

Charles Walter Clarke Jr. ’43 died July 9, 2011. “Bud” graduated from College High School in Montclair, New Jersey, where he was on the student council, school paper, yearbook and a member of the orchestra and chorus. At Dartmouth he majored in chemistry/zoology; was a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa, the Glee Club, Green Collegians, Marching Band, Handel Society and Navy V-12; and graduated cum laude. Bud attended Dartmouth Medical School and received his medical degree from Harvard in 1945. He interned at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City before spending 20 months in the Navy. In 1945 Bud married Suzanne Hagler, who died two years later. In 1951 he married Diane Bradley, with whom he had three sons. After the war Bud returned to St. Luke’s for a residency in internal medicine and in 1952 joined the Summit, New Jersey, Medical Group. After being recalled by the Navy for one year during the Korean War, he returned to the New Jersey Medical Group, where he remained for 33 years. During that time he served as president of the group, president of the Summit board of health and chief of medicine at the Overbrook Hospital in Summit. He was a member of several medical societies. Always interested in music, he played the clarinet and sax, the latter in a 17-member jazz band. Bud is survived by Diane, sons Frederick, Charles and Christopher and their families, including three grandchildren.