Norman F. Clarke

Background

Norman Clarke was born on May 7, 1928, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is the son of Norman E. Clarke, a grain merchant, and Katharine (Hall) Clarke.

Education

Norman Clarke received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and history from Indiana University in 1950. Between 1950 and 1955 he got a Master of Arts and a Master of Legal Studies at the University of Minnesota. In 1962 Norman completed his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan.

Career

Norman Clarke began his career as head librarian at Jamestown College in 1956. He worked there for six years. In 1963 Norman was appointed as an assistant professor of library science at the University of Kentucky. Two years later he began to serve as a professor of library science at Indiana State University. From 1971 to 1973 Clarke worked as a professor of library science at Kansas State Teachers College and from 1974 to 1996 as a professor and business librarian at St. Cloud State University.

Achievements

• Norman Clarke is an American writer, famous for his two popular books Logsleds to Snowmobiles and The Recreation and Entertainment Industries: An Information Sourcebook, which are widely known in the United States.

Works

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• book

  • Logsleds to Snowmobiles 1979
  • The Recreation and Entertainment Industries: An Information Sourcebook 1990

Views

Quotations: “My father’s and grandfather’s involvement in resorts and transportation fascinated me from an early age. I was one of only a few librarians with this background, and this led people to ask me to write from this knowledge. I found that I liked researching almost as much, and frequently more, as I enjoyed teaching.”

Membership

Norman Clarke is a member of Rotary International, Rotary Club of Amherst, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society and Lexington Group of Transportation Historians.

• local club secretary and treasurer

  Rotary International , United States

  1997 - 1998

Interests

• Narrow-gauge-railroad history

Connections

Norman Clarke is divorced. He has three children - Jean Marie Darnell, Christina Irene and Katharine Holder.

Father:

Norman E. Clarke

Mother:

Katharine (Hall) Clarke

child:

Jean Marie Darnel Clarke

child:

Christina Irene Clarke

child:

Katharine Holder Clarke