Grenville Clark Prize

The Grenville Clark Prize of $15,000 has been established to reward and encourage public service within this country or abroad, it has been announced by Mrs. Mary Clark Dimond of Kansas City, Mo., president of the Grenville Clark Fund at Dartmouth College, Inc. Mrs. Dimond is the daughter of Grenville Clark, who received Dartmouth's honorary Doctorate of Laws in 1953.

Mr. Clark, who died in 1967 at the age of 85, was a New York lawyer whose activities in the role of private citizen widely influenced national and world affairs, far beyond the public's awareness, for more than six decades. His personal efforts led to the rapid preparation of an effective fighting force in World War I and his services are credited by statesmen with having shortened World War II by advancing this nation's military preparedness for that conflict.

Clark's book, A Plan for Peace, published by Harper in 1950 , preceded his 12-year project with Louis B. Sohn, a Harvard professor of law, to study and rewrite the United Nations Charter. The later work resulted in the landmark book, World PeaceThrough World Law, published in 1958.

A major portion of Clark's papers dealing with these and other concerns was given as a collection to the Dartmouth College Library in 1968. Candidates for the prize may have access to the extensive Grenville Clark Papers now assembled in Baker Library Broad subject areas documented, in which furtherance of Clark's work might be rewarded, are civil liberties, academic freedom, civil rights, and world peace.

The Grenville Clark Fund at Dartmouth College, Inc., was organized in December 1971 as a non-profit corporation. The Fund was designed to honor the memory of the man himself – Grenville Clark – and to perpetuate his work.