Background
Read, Clark Phares was born on February 4, 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Son of Clark P. and Helen (Chaudoin) Read.
Read, Clark Phares was born on February 4, 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Son of Clark P. and Helen (Chaudoin) Read.
Student Tulane University, 1943-1945, University Texas, 1945-1946. Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Rice University, 1948, Doctor of Philosophy, 1950.
Atomic Energy Commission fellow Rice University, 1949. Assistant professor zoology University of California at Los Angeles, 1950-1954. Associate professor public health Johns Hopkins, 1954-1959, professor biology, department chairman Rice University, 1959-1973.
Professor epidemiology Baylor University School Medicine, 1961-1965.
Research professor Texas A. and M. University, 1963-1970. Chairman tropical medicine study section United States Public Health Service, 1960-1965.
Chairman Houston branch American Civil Liberties Union, 1968-1970.
Member of advisory board University Texas School Public Health, 1967-1973, Martin L. King Foundation, 1968-1973. Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1941-1945. Guggenheim fellow, 1959-1960.
Member American Society Parasitologists (Henry B. Ward medal 1959), Society General Physiologists, American Society Tropical Medicine, Society Protozoologists, Sigma Xi.
Married Leota A. Wolff, October 24, 1944. Children: Jo Hanna (Mistress Stephen South. Tobias), Victoria Helen, Thomas Jefferson, Cathleen Eliot.