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Despite earning more than his share of
demerits at SPS, Mr. Clark’s Navy rec-
ommendation from the School praised
his high moral character, quality of
leadership, and “constructive influence
on others.”
After the war, Mr. Clark joined his
father in trading metals in Manhattan
and then worked for the Palmer Marine
Engine Company in Cos Cob, Conn. He
was married for 27 years to Barbara
Blankenhorn Kerst, and the couple had
three children, Catherine, David ’74, and
William. The marriage ended in divorce.
Mr. Clark maintained a lifelong passion
for boating and later worked as a yacht
broker, before settling into a career in
real estate. In 1992, Mr. Clark moved to
Grand Harbor at Vero Beach, Fla., where
he met his new golf partner, Carolyn Jones,
who became his soul-mate and, in 2001,
his bride.
The Clarks split their time between
Florida and Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.,
where they kept their 30-foot Maineship,
the “CB.”
“It’s a great life,” Mr. Clark wrote to SPS
in 1995, “Sailing, fishing, lots of golf.”
Mr. Clark and his wife were devoted to
their family and kept track of their “com-
bined score in the grandchild department,”
which reached 21 strong. The couple
shared a passion for travel, visiting 17
different countries over Mr. Clark’s final
decade. Their travels took them to Africa,
South America, Scandinavia and other
parts of Europe, and the South Pacific.
Mr. Clark also loved St. Paul’s. Shortly
before his death, he asked his son and
fellow alumnus, David, to say goodbye
for him to all of his friends from SPS.
His funeral on May 22, 2014, included
full military honors from the U.S. Navy.
Mr. Clark will be greatly missed by his
wife, Carolyn Jones Clark, and her family
and by his children and their families,
including his daughter, Catherine Clark
Obert, her husband, Serge, and their
daughter, Annie; his son, David A. Clark
’74, his wife, Susan, and their sons, Tyler,
Riley, and Caldwell; and his son, William
B. Clark, his wife, Susan, and their child-
ren, Brendan, Jaffrey, and Chelsea.
1943
William Maxwell Evarts Jr.
an esteemed New
York lawyer, died
November 11,
2013, of compli-
cations resulting
from a fall. He
was 88 and lived
in New York City,
Garrison, N.Y., and
Vinalhaven, Maine.
Born on June 3, 1925, in New York City,
he was a son of Cornelia and William
Maxwell Evarts of the Form of 1905. Mr.
Evarts attended the Buckley School in
Manhattan and followed a distinguished
line of relatives to Millville, including his
father, grandfather, former faculty mem-
ber Prescott Evarts of the Form of 1876;
and two great-uncles, Sherman Evarts of
the Form of 1876 and Maxwell Evarts of
the Form of 1879.
Mr. Evarts excelled in the classroom,
consistently earning testimonials for
his academic achievements, and on the
playing fields, competing with Isthmian
in football and hockey and rowing with
Shattuck. Mr. Evarts served on the Con-
cordian Literary Society Council, as a
supervisor, and as a member of the
Student Council.
Mr. Evarts served with the 94th Infantry
Division of the U.S. Army until 1946,
spending time in France, Germany, and
Czechoslovakia. Wounded at the Battle of
the Bulge, he was awarded the Croix de
Guerre avec Palme for his service with
the Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur, or
Resistance fighters, in France. Upon his
return, Mr. Evarts joined the Harvard
College Class of 1949 and Harvard Law
School’s Class of 1952.
A descendant of many successful law-
yers and clergymen, including his great-
grandfather, William M. Evarts, who suc-
cessfully defended President Andrew
Johnson at his impeachment trial and
served as Johnson’s attorney general, Mr.
Evarts began his law career in 1954 with
Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam, and Roberts.
There he specialized in general corporate
work, served as managing partner of the
firm for more than 20 years, and became
council to the firm in 1997.
Mr. Evarts took great interest in his family,
his church, his community, and the envi-
ronment. He served on the vestry of
St. Philip’s Church in Garrison, N.Y., as
chairman of the board of New York Com-
munity Trust, as a trustee of Bard College,
and as a board member of United Hospital
Fund, the Clark Foundation, the Trust for
Public Land, Scenic Hudson, the National
Audubon Society, the Nature Conservancy
of New York, and Hudson Highlands Land
Trust.
Mr. Evarts took great pleasure in music
and enjoyed playing the organ and the clas-
sical piano. In addition, he was an enthus-
iastic mountaineer, hockey player, rower,
sailor, and backpacker in the mountains
of the West. A lifelong supporter of St. Paul’s,
Mr. Evarts took great care to oversee the
William M. Evarts Fund for faculty sab-
batical leave at St. Paul’s, established in
honor of his father, a former president of
the SPS Alumni Association.
Mr. Evarts will be deeply missed by his
wife of 65 years, Helen Coleman Evarts;
his daughters, Holly Evarts Bartow, Kate
Landon Evarts, and Alice Conover Evarts;
his sons-in-law, Clarence W. Bartow and
William A. Allen; and his grandchildren,
Iain Prescott Gordon, William Evarts
Bartow, and Emily Vaux Bartow.
1943
George Torrence Overholt Jr.
died peacefully at
home on April 25,
2014. He was 89.
Mr. Overholt
was born in New
York City on Jan-
uary 30, 1925,
the son of George
Torrence Over-
holt Sr. and Hazel
Mallory Overholt.
At St. Paul’s, he was a quiet, but dedi-
cated, student of mathematics and science.
He competed with Old Hundred and Hal-
cyon and belonged to the Scientific Assoc-
iation and the Missionary Society.
In 1938, Mr. Overholt listed his varied
hobbies as “rifles, stamps, home movies,
and driving,” demonstrating that he was a
well-rounded young man. He went on to
graduate from Yale University and Harvard
Business School, where he completed the
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