Evening star., 1952-10-13
Clarke |. Willard Dies;
WAS Career Official
In State Department

III JIdIe department
Clarke L. Willard. 46. chief OF
the State Department Division of
International Conferences, died
Saturday at Georgetown Hospital.
He had been i'll for two months.
Mr.. Willard was associate chief
Iof the division from 1947 until
last summer when he was made
chief.
A Washington resident for the
last IS years, he lived at 6613
Thirty-second street NV.
Mr.. Willard had been with the
State Department since 1927. He
was known internationally through
the many meetings he had at
tended and organized on behalf
|of the United States. He had
conferred often with foreign gov
|ernment representatives on proto-
col and procedures before confer
|enceS.
Began - Clerk.
Mr.. Willard began his State
Department career Is q clerk,
In that capacity he attended the
Monetary and Economic Confer
ence in London in 1888. He was
appointed divisional assistant in
1887 and made acting assistant
chief Of the Division of Inter-
national Conferences in 1910.
He had served as secretary to
the 9Th Pan American Child
Congress here and secretary to
the United States delegation at
the Second Inter-American Con-
ference on Agriculture in Mexico
City. both in 1912.
The following year he was Sec
retary to the United States dele
cation and executive secretary of
the United Nation Conference on
Food and Agriculture at Hot
Springs, Va.
He was executive secretary of
the first session and secretary to
the United States delegation at the
second session of the Council of
the United Nations Relief. and Re-
Mobilization Administration in 1943
and 1914.
Served 1T Breton Woods.
In 1914 he also served as execu-
tive secretary of the United Ma
tlonS Monetary and Financial
Conference at Breton Woods. N.
H., and Of the International Civil
Conference at Chicago.
Mr.. Willard was United States
delegate to the Inter-American
Conference on Problems of War
and Peace at Mexico City and Sec
retary Of the United States dele
cation at the Third Inter-Ameri-
can Conference on Agriculture at
Caracas. Venezuela, both in 1945.
More recently he was respon-
slble for organizing meetings of
the Council of Foreign Ministers
and tripartite talks among the
ministers Of France, the United
States and the United Kingdom.
He was one Of the organizers of
the signing ceremonies for the ia
panese peace treaty and the treaty
of security with New Zealand and
at San Francisco.
Native of Frederick.
Mr.. Willard was born at Fred
erick. Md, the son of Paul Clarke
and Lucie Kepler Willard. He was
graduated from Frederick High
School and received his bachelor
of arts degree from the University
of Pennsylvania. He did graduate
work at the University OF New
York.
He was a member of Theta XII
fraternity.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Gladys E. Walck Willard; two
sons. Richard w., assistant to the
director of student aide at Massa-
;husetts Institute of Technology.
who is also studying at Harvard,
and Edward c., a student at
Wilson High School: a
Barbara Anne; his
Mrs. Paul c. Willard;
brother. Paul L. Willard. both of
Frederick. and sister, Mrs. Ralph
W. Marsh, Roanoke. Va.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. tomorrow at Gawler's
funeral home, 1756 Pennsylvania
avenue NV. Burial will be in
Mount Olivet Cemetery. Fred
,rick.