New UMaine Scholarship Established
Contact: Amos E. Orcutt 581-5100
ORONO, Me.–A scholarship honoring the memory of the late Mary Esther Treat Clark, University of Maine Class of 1944, formerly of Winterport and Belfast, has been established at the University of Maine Foundation to assist students to students who are graduates of Maine high schools and who are majoring in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
For over 30 years, Clark was president of the Little Chapel of All Nations of Tucson, Arizona, which was established to provide spiritual comfort and intellectual stimulation to students and faculty at the University of Arizona. The Little Chapel was endowed by Ada Peirce McCormick, a generous founder from Bangor, who shared with Clark a crusading interest in human rights.
Adine von Isser, current president of the Little Chapel Board, said of Clark, “This remarkable woman gave her life to fulfilling the dreams of Ada Peirce McCormick whose standards and values had such a profound effect upon Mary Clark and so many others. She ventured into uncharted territory in the quest for quietly assisting those individuals and organizations that represented unity and equality for all mankind and for the pursuit of excellence. Her goal was to maintain the core of humanism and love for all individuals that had been established. Her life was one of commitment and unflagging dedication.”
Randi K. Kisiel, who succeeded Clark as executive director said, “Mary Esther