Truman A. Clark ’63

Truman Clark, an economist, died Feb. 21, 2010, of congestive heart failure in Healdsburg, Calif., where he grew up.  

Truman had recently built a new home and grew blanc grapes on a 195-acre ranch along the Russian River on land acquired 170 years earlier by his great-grandfather, fur trapper Cyrus Alexander. Truman retired in 2006 from Dimensional Fund Advisors.

He had lived in four other places but always spent time in Alexander Valley in summers. “The older he got the more he was drawn to this land,” said his wife, Elizabeth.

At Princeton he was in the politics department, managed the hockey team, and ate at Cloister before going independent. After college he was an Army officer and a stockbroker in San Francisco. He earned a doctorate in business finance from the University of Chicago in 1982 and taught at SUNY Buffalo and the University of Southern California before returning to industry, working for Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisors, William F. Sharpe Associates, and A.B. Laffer Associates.  

Truman was a Civil War buff, a San Francisco Giants season ticket holder, and a devotee of Astaire-Rogers musicals.

The class shares the sorrow of Elizabeth; their son, Alex; and daughter Shelley.