Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
Veteran Actor Writes
for Pawtucket Paper
Info About Clarke


pageant, which was so successfully
staged recently in Pawtucket. r. l.,
| under the direction Of H. Price Web
Der Of this city, is the subject Of an
| interesting article in the Pawtucket
| Magazine, the official publication of
| the Pawtucket Chamber of Com
| merce. of which George c. Clarke
| Is editor-in-chief. The article was
| written by the veteran actor ard is
made more interesting by the use
of scenes taken at the event.
The article made mention Of the
| part as played by an Augusta girl.
Miss Dorothy E. Gray. She took
the part of Immortality, the same
part which she so successfully took
ut the Augusta presentation of the
pageant in 1922. Augusta is proud
of her talented young dancer and
Of the veteran actor. and the parts
which they took in this out of state
production.
In the same copy of the Pawtuck-
ct Magazine is an article concerning
the new executive officers The ar
tlcle tells some very interesting
facts about George c. Clarke, the
new manager Of the Paw
tucket Chamber of Commerce, who
ASoiSHS as SCCicldIy VI Tie Augusta
Chamber of Commerce to go there.
Let George do it, evidently
seems to be the intention of the
board of directors of the Pawtucket
Chamber of Commerce. for with two
vacancies in it's staff to be filled the
members of the board unanimously
elected namesakes of the father of
his country to carry on it's work.
Before choosing these men a
most careful analysis was given to
the requirements of the positions to
be filled. What type of man is
needed in community work? Where
can such men be found? What
should their training be? What are
our own particular problems and in
what respects do they require men
of specialized training for their So
luton? 1t was with such questions
as these that the men elected to
choose the new officials concerned
themselves.
George c. Clarke. the new man.
ager-secretary. was born in Boston.
Mass, in 1883. of good old Yankee
stock. His early life was spent in
the city of Portland, Me-, and it
was from the public schools of that
Guy That he was graduated in 1908.
NOT having been born to wealth, like
many another New England boy, he
passed through various stages of
earning MS way through life being
successfully a newsbov. a ianitor's
assistant. and a factory employees
after school hours, always keeninp
an eye on the one goal-the desire
10 attend college and to equip him
sell Tor life with that greatest of all
assets-higher education.
one very interesting feature Of
MS career is the fact that he en-
tered college with less than So. 90
III ms pockets, with no friend ar
court. and yet that he remained
!or his full four years supported nv
ms own earnings and was graduated
IN 1915. a leader in college life. WITH
fund of $1,000 in the uank. The
story OF these years would make in
teresting reading.
IN spite of the handicap of being
oollged to earn his way, Mr.. Clarke
FOUND time to win high honors as a
oenator, as a public speaker, in dra-
matics, IN the musical clubs, as man.
ageo OF his class year book, as a
writer Tor his college publication,
ana as business manager of his COL
!ege fraternity. His scholastic stand
ing was of the highest. which led
10 his appointment in his senior
year as tutor in mathematics. He
was elected to the Senior Skulls. an
organization of the eleven men con-
sidered by their classmates as hav-
ing done the most for their college
during their college days.
After graduation Mr.. Clarke
spent seven years as a teacher, one
year IN Concord. N. H.. as a teacher
or the commercial branches, and
SIX years at the Maine WESLEYAN
Seminary at Kent's Hill. first as a
teacher of bookkeeping and kindred
subjects. and later as teacher of ad-
Tanced mathematics. In his last
two years he served as vice-princi-
pal OF the school and in his last half
year as acting principal. He was
loved by the boys and girls under
his care and through his leadership,
the institution itself gained both in
size and popularity. He helped to
build up its student life, it's sports.
and its standards. For several years
Mr.. Clarke acted as publicity agent
for the school, and in 1919 he took
charge of it's summer campaign for
students and brought together the
largest enrolment in the past thirty
years of it's history"