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DR. ENSOR NAMES DEVELOPMENTAlfred V. Clark is assistant to the president for developmentfollowing appointment by Dr. Ensor thisspringMr. Clark, who lives with his family in Westminster,was a member of the ROTC faculty at the College from1956 to 1960. He retired from the Army as a Lt. Colonel.Mr. Clark most recently had been assistant registrar atMichigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.A native of Florida, Mr. Clark is a graduate of theAlfredV. ClarkUniversity of Florida. He has a Master's degree fromWestern Maryland and has done some graduate work atthe University of Florida. During World War II, Mr.Clark served in Europe as an infantry and artillerycommander and staff officer. Before reentering the Armythe assistant to the president was a supervisor for theFlorida State Department of Education. He served injapan, Korea and Germany following the war.page twoASSISTANTNew Officer DiscussesPreliminary Plans, IdeasDevelopment goes on and on. It doesn't happen nextTuesday. It is mostly a long-range operation. Accordingto Alfred V. Clark, assistant to the president for development,this is the most important thing to understand.Mr. Clark has said that he will devote his first monthsat We~tern Maryland to acquainting himself with thecolleges needs and the sources of potential support tomeet those needs. He is presently formulating ideas fora long-range development plan for the college. Mr. Clarkhastens to point out that he will be a coordinator inthis process. However, at the October meeting of theBoal~d.of Trustees he hopes to be able to present somepreliminary recommendations.Mr. Clark must, he says, get a conception of the needsof the college and the priorities of those needs' then hecan start .developing a plan to obtain support for them.To do this, Mr. Clark points out he will be concernedwith ~aculty,staff, and students, alumni, parents, businessl~l~d mdustry, foundations and government agencies,+nends of the college and the Associationof IndependentColleges of Maryland.The. new. development officer has already begun toacq,uamt himself with tilt: needs and problems of thevarious departments and staff members of the college.He hopes at some point to be able to sit with a conferenceof appropriate officials of the college to discussneeds. When these needs are determined priorities canbe established and plans made to 6nd ' funds for theprogram's supportAt tl~e October meeting of the Board any long-rangeplan WI1\ have to be very preliminary, Mr. Clark says,because of the time element involved. Whatever ideasand proposals can be arrived at between now and tben,however, will be presented to the Board and the developmentcommittee of the Board with recommendationsfor future action.As the long-rang plans take shape, they will be fullyoutlined ill THE MAGAZINE so that alumni and friendscan be kept informed.