Clark G. Reynolds dies

Clark G. Reynolds
Clark G. Reynolds, 65, of Pisgah Forest, North Carolina died
Saturday, December 10, 2005 at his home. A native of San Gabriel,
California, he was the son of the late William G. Reynolds, a golf
professional, and Alma E. Reynolds.
A recognized authority on the fast carriers of World War II and
of naval history in general, he was the author of sixteen naval history
books and numerous published essays and encyclopedia entries. He earned his
PhD from Duke University in 1964 and was a professor of history who taught
at the U.S. Naval Academy, the University of Maine, the U.S. Merchant Marine
Academy, and the University/College of Charleston where he received the
faculty distinguished teaching award and the faculty research award for 1999
and retired as distinguished professor emeritus in history in 2002.
Before teaching at the College of Charleston, Dr. Reynolds worked for the
USS Yorktown Association helping the Association establish the USS Yorktown
(CV-10) as a museum in Charleston Harbor. He worked with other carrier
veteran associations to acquire appropriate memorabilia to display and also
to establish individual carrier rooms. He then became Patriots Point Naval
and Maritime Museum's Curator/Historian.
He received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize in Naval Literature, Naval Order
of the United States and the Admiral Arthur W. Radford Award for Excellence
in Naval Aviation History and Literature from the Naval Aviation Museum
Foundation in Pensacola, Florida.
A lover of jazz music of the 1920s-1940s, he was a volunteer disc jockey for
jazz radio programs from 1973-76 on Maine Public Broadcasting Network and
from 1983-2002 on South Carolina Educational Radio.
He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Constance Caine Reynolds
who was his typist and proofreader, two sons, Dwight D. Reynolds of
Washington, DC and Ward W. Reynolds of Mt. Pleasant, SC and one daughter,
Colleen Reynolds Thomas and her husband Greg Thomas of Moscow, Idaho.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Little River
Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department, P.O. Box 241, Penrose, NC 28766.

Jim Beaver