Jackson Sutton Clark ’59

Jackson Sutton Clark ’59 passed away on November 9, 2013, in hospice at the Coronado (California) Retirement Village. “Sut” entered Dartmouth from Greenwich (Connecticut) High School, where he was the editor of the school paper and a National Honor Society member. He attended Dartmouth on a Navy ROTC scholarship. At Dartmouth he majored in economics, was a brother of Chi Phi, on the NROTC drill team and in the Dartmouth Outing Club. After graduation Sut entered the Navy, where he earned an additional bachelor’s in electronic engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He served in Vietnam and had a family-accompanied tour in Gaeta, Italy, where he served as a weapons officer on the USS Little Rock. After retiring from the Navy he spent 11 years at General Dynamics, flight-testing the Tomahawk cruise missile, and continued his career as an independent technical consultant to local defense contractors, adding an M.B.A. from Southern Illinois University. As a member of the Coronado blue ribbon committee on traffic and later as head of the tunnel commission, he developed tunnel proposals designed to reroute Coronado’s traffic to and from the North Island Naval Station. Always patriotic, he proudly saluted the military at every opportunity. He had a keen memory for lyrics of Dartmouth fight songs. Sut loved the ocean, helping crew local sailboats. He competed in marathons and remained active his whole life. His wife, Janet, a daughter, a granddaughter and a sister survive Sut.