Clark W. McCarty

Professor Emeritus, Physics

Clark William McCarty earned a B.A. from the University of Kansas City in 1937, a M.S. from the University of Nebraska in 1939, a B.S.E. from Central Missouri State Teachers College in 1940, a M.A. from the University of Missouri in 1947, and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 1953.  He also did post graduate work in weather forecasting at the United States Naval Academy in 1944. In addition, Dr. McCarty completed summer studies at Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies in 1959 and Manhattan College in 1964.  He was commissioned Ensign in the Navy at Midshipman School at Notre Dame.  He retired from the Navy as Lieutenant Commander. Dr. McCarty served as a weather forecaster in the Pacific in World War II and the Korean War. While in the Pacific, he was stationed in the Philippines and the Admiralty Islands.  Dr. McCarty joined the Ouachita faculty in 1950 as Associate Professor of Chemistry and Math.  He was called back into the navy in the fall of 1951, and was on leave in 1952-53 to serve in the Korean War.  Dr. McCarty retired from Ouachita in 1979-80 as Professor of Physics.  He served as a deacon in the First Baptist Church and really loved his work in the Baptist Brotherhood there. He was a member and past president of the Kiwanis Club. Clark McCarty married the former Myrene Elizabeth Vogt and together they have three sons, James, Joseph, and John, and two daughters, Rosalie Daniel, and Sarah Abernathy.  Dr. McCarty died September 3, 2002.