Dr. Jim Clark and Anna Clark at a scenic overlook above the Big Sur area on the Central Coast of California. The name “Big Sur” is derived from the original Spanish-language “el sur grande,” meaning “the big south” or the country south of the Monterey Peninsula. At the time this picture was taken, the couple was visiting with their daughter Emily and friends in this breathtakingly beautiful area where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. All members of the Clark Family have traveled extensively in the United States and abroad. (Anna Clark)
HIKING IN GRAND CANYON—Dr. Jim Clark and daughter Emily enjoy a moment of rest in one of the most unique places on earth—Grand Canyon National Park. Dr. Clark and Anna Clark and their children Emily and Eric have hiked many miles and camped numerous times beneath the rim in this stunning area, which has some of the oldest exposed rocks in the world. Emily, a 2000 graduate of Rhodes in Memphis, now lives and works in Boston. Dr. Clark and Emily are at Cedar Ridge on the South Kaibab trail. Their hiking “twisty sticks” were cut from a friend’s fence row and finished by Dr. Clark and Emily. (Anna Clark)
VISITORS FROM UT MARTIN IN HIROSAKI CITY, JAPAN—Eric Clark (back row, far right), a UT Martin graduate now teaching in Sendai, Japan, was happy to welcome Chancellor Nick Dunagan (now retired) and Gary Wilson, director of International Programs and International Admissions, when they came to visit UT Martin’s sister university, Hirosaki University, in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. Two of Eric’s colleagues also appear in this picture and were very happy to greet the UT Martin delegation. On two separate and exciting trips, Dr. Jim Clark and Anna Clark have visited their son in Japan. (Anna Clark)
TECHNOLOGY AND DESKTOP PUBLISHING—Anna Clark, instructor of English and Modern Foreign Language and co-coordinator of the Hortense Parrish Writing Center since 1986, looks at some of the early desktop publishing projects she and her husband, Dr. Jim Clark, helped design. Publications include New Ground, a UT Martin poetry chapbook that first appeared in 1991; The Writing Lab News, a newsletter that was developed by using some of the first desktop publishing software; publications from Writers’ Guild, a creative writing group that was active from 1996 through 2012; several publications from creative writing classes in the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Humanities, including Writers’ Block (front row); a chapbook from an Honors English composition Course (for life’s not a paragraph); The Kid College Press, a newspaper started by the Clarks for UT Martin’s Kid College; and The English Newsletter, a publication distributed by the Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages. The Clarks were among those first promoting the use of computers for composition and desktop publishing at UT Martin. (Anna Clark)
TOGETHER IN AUSTRIA—Dr. Jim Clark and Anna Clark love to hike in Austria and to stay at a special guesthouse —The Handlerhof—near Maria Alm in the Pinzgau region of the state of Salzburg. Behind them are the Alps of the Hochkönig area and before them is the warm and welcoming family hotel with some of the best food these Tennessee travelers have had in all of Austria. The couple hopes to plan a family gathering at The Handlerhof at some point in the future when time and complicated work schedules can mesh for a mountain adventure. (Anna Clark)
