Clarke, L. Floyd Family

Lemuel Floyd Clarke (1906-1981) joined the zoology faculty of the University of Wyoming in 1935 and served as department head from 1942 to 1968. In addition, he founded the Jackson Hole Biological Research Station and served as its director from 1953 to 1972. In 1968 he was appointed associate dean of the College of Health Sciences. His wife Nina Evelyn Robinson Clarke (1908-1998) established the L. Floyd Clarke Fund in Zoology and Physiology at UW after his death. Daughter Lucille Clarke Dumbrill was active in the Wyoming State Historical Society, which led to a long career of volunteer service in historic preservation at UW and in the state of Wyoming. Son David Robinson Clarke (b. 1943) received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1969 from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and became a thoracic surgeon.