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Willard F. Clark

Private, Project StaffLos Alamos, NM

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Willard Clark was born in Boston in 1910, but grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father was President of the General Motors Argentina Branch. Growing up, he spent time studying painting and drawing, and he attended the Grand Central School of Art and the Hawthorne Art Academy.

In 1942, he began to work at the Los Alamos Lab. He worked here for the next 30 years as a master tool and die machinist.

He published Remembering Santa Fe.

Willard F. Clark’s Timeline
1910 Born.

1930 Married Bertha Berchtold.

1942 Closed his print shop and went to Los Alamos for work.

1979 Retired.

1992 Passed away at the age of 83.

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