Dennis Clark: A short biography

Dennis was born in 1946 in Princeton, New Jersey where, at the age of less than two, he collaborated with Albert Einstein at a local restaurant on the merits of baby food. Well, they did frequently eat at the same restaurant at the same time. He grew up in Holland, Michigan where he marched in the Holland High School Band in wooden shoes. He also played the cello but without wooden shoes. He spent four years touring beautiful Vietnam as an electronics Technician (E5) in the Navy and then got a BS at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. He majored in computer science with minors in Math and Physics. From there he got a job at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN. He spent 26 years writing computer programs for scientists at ORNL. He worked in Fusion Energy and surfed ARPAnet long before the internet existed. He also managed a large Waste Tracking database that kept tabs on hazardous materials at the laboratory. Now, he's webmeister of several web sites and creator of several online high school mathematics presentations.

In his spare time he was an assistant gymnastics coach for the Oak Ridge gymnastics club, ran 10k races, played the cello in the Oak Ridge Symphony orchestra, played the cello in local quart-quint- and sextets, worked with ncubes and ncube snakes, created math presentations for fifth graders and high school students, managed to painfully limp through a bicycle century (100 miles) without training for it, completed several quarter iron-man triathlons, was a card carrying track official at many track meets, and took up hang gliding in Chattanooga where he frequently soared for two or three hours a time. In spite of hang gliding being about as safe as snow skiing, he was injured while landing under the influence of hypothermia - a condition where your brain shuts down because you're too cold. This left him totally without the use of his legs, so, today he is restricted to activities like wheelchair road races, swimming, water skiing, kayaking, SCUBA, cello playing and hang gliding.