Background
Clark,, Montague Graham was born on February 25, 1909 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of Montague G. and Alice C. (Graham) Clark.
Clark,, Montague Graham was born on February 25, 1909 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of Montague G. and Alice C. (Graham) Clark.
Student, Georgia Technology School Engineering. Doctor of Laws, Drury College, 1957. Doctor of Education, Southwest Baptist College, 1972.
Doctor of Letters, School of the Ozarks, 1975. Doctor of Science, School of the Ozarks, 1986. Doctor of Divinity, Missouri Valley College, 1977.
Doctor of Science, School Ozarks, 1986.
Vice president W.R. Hoyt & Company, Atlanta, 1934-1946, School of Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri, 1946-1952, president, 1952-1981, secretary board trustees, 1957-1971, president emeritus, chairman board emeritus, 1981-1986. Past director Bank of Taney County. Past member Commission on Colleges and Universities, North Central Association Colleges and Secondary Schools.
Former moderator Lafayette Presbetery and Synod of Missouri, Presbyterian Church of the United States. Past member national advisory council on health professions education National Institutes of Health. Director Empire Gas Corporation.
Member National council Boy Scouts American, Missouri Committee on Public Schools, Thomas Hart Benton National Committee for Exhibition. Also member advisory board Ozarks Empire Area council. Member Wilson's Creek Battlefield National Commission, since 1961.
Member board, executive committee, secretary Blue Cross. Honorary member Missouri American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. Former vice president, director American Heart Association, member executive committee, chairman fund raising advisory and policy committee, Great Plains regional chairman.
Chairman Missouri Heart Fund. Past chairman board Missouri Heart Association. Member advisory council Council on American Affairs.
Founding president of School of Ozarks. Member security panel Aircraft War Production Council, New York, Missouri Committee Public Schools, Thomas Hart Benton National Committee for Exhibition, Grand Cross. Vice president, vice chairman Thomas Hart Benton Homestead Memorial Commission.
Board directors St. Louis Scottish Towers Residence Foundation. Chairman burns prevention committee Shrine of North America. Honorary chairman Southern Missouri division American Cancer Society.
President Youth Council Atlanta. Member executive committee Atlanta Christian Council. Member Park and Recreation Commission Fulton County.
Chairman planned giving and legacies Missouri division American Cancer Society, honorary education chairman Southern Missouri division, chairman planned giving and legacy Missouri division. Board trustees Patriotic Education, Inc. Served to major Internal Security, World World War World War II.
Member Royal Order Scotland. Member S.A.R. (past president general national society, honorary vice president Missouri Society, patriotic committee, National Society Good Citizenship medal, Patriot medal, Minute Man award, Virginia Society medal), Academy Missouri Squires, Navy League United States, Missouri Chamber of Commerce, Association Grand Jurors of Fulton County, Atlanta Sunday School Superintendents Association (president, treasurer), Missouri Pilots Association (1st chairman board), Civil Air Patrol (director advisory board), White River Valley History Society (past president), Society Colonial Wars, Order Founders and Patriots American, Air Force Association, Association United States Army, Missouri Association State Troopers Emergency Relief Society, International Association Chiefs of Police, National Gavel Society, Red Cross Constantine, Patriotic Education, Inc. Clubs: Masons (33 degree, awards, grand chaplain 1980-1981, chairman Americanism Committee, others), Shriners (past imperial chaplain, others, Civic Service award), K.T, Rotary (past local president, district governor 1966-1967), DeMolay, Imperial Council, Nobles of Mystic Shrine of N.A.
Married Elizabeth Hoyt, May 2, 1933. Children: Elizabeth (Mistress Joe Embser), Alice (Mistress Harold Davis), Margaret (Mistress William Miller), Julia Clark Hampton.