In Memoriam: Elizabeth Ann Clarke, 1928-2015

Elizabeth Ann Clark, a longtime faculty member in the College of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts, died on August 9. She was 87 years old and had suffered from multiple sclerosis for the past 25 years.

Clark was a graduate of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She held master’s degrees from Columbia Teachers College and the Yale University School of Nursing.

Clark was an instructor at the University of Massachusetts College of Nursing from 1957 to 1961. In 1964, she was hired as an assistant professor in medical/surgical nursing at the University of Massachusetts. She remained on the faculty there until 1976.

A former head nurse at Yale New Haven Hospital, Clark also taught nursing at the University of Maine and the Medical University of South Carolina.