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Warner Clark papers
As documented in his autobiography, Our World on Our Watch (2005), most of Warner Clark’s personal life intertwines with his life-long commitment to MRA. The collection documents his life, work, family, and the Moral Re-Armament movement and its related initiatives over some eighty years. Some att...
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| Collection: | Warner Clark Papers |
| Collection Number: | 3219 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to finding aid |
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5.1 Linear feet ; 15 boxes |
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As documented in his autobiography, Our World on Our Watch (2005), most of Warner Clark’s personal life intertwines with his life-long commitment to MRA. The collection documents his life, work, family, and the Moral Re-Armament movement and its related initiatives over some eighty years. Some attempt has been made to group the collection into personal memorabilia, genealogical matter, and materials related to family, friends, and MRA. Series one is Warner Clark, Series two is the Clark Family Genealogy, and Series three is Family Friends, Associates, and Miscellaneous. The entire collection is 15 boxes and spans from 1924-2007. Researchers will find that the line between Warner Clark’s personal life and work with MRA often could not be clearly separated. For example, many of the letters and photographs are both personal and MRA-related in content. Letters have been arranged chronologically. Photographs were donated in a filing drawer and this order has been retained. In addition to many letters and photographs covering much of his life and travels, the collection includes official documents such as marriage and death certificates, scrapbooks, clippings, essays and other writings, notebooks, address books, and various small artifacts such as military ribbons. Printed materials (Box 14) include several books by members of MRA or about MRA including Our World on Our Watch by Warner Clark, Stepping Stones: A German Biography by Hansjorg Gareis, Annie by Annie Jaegar, and Frank Buchman as I Knew Him by H.W. Austin.
Researchers interested in Warner Clark’s genealogy should consult HSP Collection #3996, Charles Heber Clark papers. Charles Heber Clark (1841-1915) is William Warner Clark’s grandfather.
William Warner Clark was born in Philadelphia in 1912, and he died in California in 2007. From 1943 to 1945, he served in the U.S. Army, where he graduated from Officer Candidate School and served as aide to General George A. Horkan. Clark worked as an air conditioner salesman and later as an accountant, but his main work through most of his adult life was for the international religious movement Moral Re-Armament, founded by Frank Buchman, and its offshoot, Up With People. The collection documents Clark's life, work, and family, and the Moral Re-Armament movement and related initiatives over some eighty years. It includes correspondence, photographs, official documents such as marriage and death certificates, scrapbooks, clippings, essays and other writings, printed materials (including Clark's 2005 memoir, Our World on Our Watch), notebooks and address books, and various small artifacts such as military ribbons. |