Mary Frances “Bitsie” Thompson was born on Oct. 30, 1931. She grew up in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. She attended the Berkeley Institute for Girls (now the Berkeley Carroll School), where as junior class president she was invited to a gathering of fellow school officers hosted by Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt told the assembled teens they had been chosen to pursue leadership roles so they would not leave “politics to the hacks". Clark took the helm of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven in 1983.Clark remained at the job for the next 19 years, and basically made Audubon Street what it is today.
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