Clarke, L. Floyd family

The Clarke family was honored as the 1998 Wyoming Family of the Year, selected by the Associated Parents of the University of Wyoming.

Lemuel Floyd Clarke was born to David Robert and Martha Cooley Clarke June 21, 1906 in Newton, Utah. He received his bachelor and master of science degrees from Utah State Agricultural College in 1927 and 1931, respectively. In 1935 he was awarded a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago. Clarke joined the zoology faculty of the University of Wyoming in 1935 and served as department head from 1942 to 1968. In addition, he founded UW’s Jackson Hole Biological Research Station in Moran, Wyoming, near the Teton Mountains, and served as its director from 1953 to 1972. In 1968 he was appointed associate dean of the College of Health Sciences, a position he held until his retirement in 1976. Clarke was awarded UW’s prestigious George Duke Humphrey Distinguished Faculty Award in 1965 and also the Outstanding Former Faculty Award for the College of Arts and Sciences in 1996. He was married to Nina Robinson June 16, 1927 and they had three children, Lucille, Evelyn, and David. L. Floyd Clarke died November 12, 1981.

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