Fonds MS-2-819 - Barbara Smith Clark fonds

Barbara Smith Clark was a professor and clinical psychologist at Dalhousie University and the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children. Born in 1921 as Barbara Smith Oliver in San Francisco, California, she was educated at Berkeley (BA, 1944), Wayne State University (MSW, 1941), and Southern Illinois University (PhD, 1973). She came to Dalhousie in 1963 as an assistant professor of psychology and became an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry in 1972. She was a consultant to Children's Services, The Department of Child Psychiatry at the IWK Hospital and the Department of Special Education for the Halifax District School Board. Barbara was married to James Ward Clark, who also taught at Dalhousie's Department of Psychology. She lived with Alzheimer's disease for twenty years before she died in 200-.