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Written by Carol Thornberry - past co-worker with Clark Brody.
Clark I and both spent most of our working career at Centennial School District; Clark as principal of Centennial Middle School and Centennial High School and I was an adminstrative assistant for the Assistant Superintendent at the district office. Since my area included much of what went on at the buildings I had many opportunities to work with Clark. He was one of the most well respected and superior principals I have ever known. Students under his leadership were, indeed, fortunate. Finally, with only one year before my retirement (1997/98), I was the lucky one to get to work directly with Clark at the district office when he became the Assistant Superintendent-Curriculum. We had a grand time that year and laughed a lot as we both learned our new jobs. Keeping Clark "on task" was one of my main roles and he graciously allowed me to nag him a lot. He even agreed to learn about and utilize a Franklin Planner so we could try and keep up with all his activities. I have never known anyone with so much positive energy. We did several Power Point presentations together and throughly enjoyed the challenge to make each one better. I found inspiration and comfort working along side an individual who, in a public school setting, openly professed his faith and strong Christian beliefs and family values without making others feel threatened by those beliefs. It takes a very special person to be able to do that successfully - God has truly blessed this man for his faithful walk and I am truly blessed to have been associated with him and his family. We did make quite the pair with me at 5'1" and Clark towering over me at ??? --waaaaay up there. Guess I "looked up to him" in several different ways.
I truly admire this new personal challenge he has taken on and will be watching his daily journal as he continues to travel across the USA.
Carol Thornberry - retired
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