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"This is a special day for the Propulsion Research Center as it is the realization of a dream to have a modern research facility in which our students, both graduate and undergraduate, can conduct relatively hazardous propulsion research on both rocket and air breathing propulsion systems. Our vision has consistently been to produce students with a practical feel for hardware. We can now do so with the latest tools for propulsion system diagnostics."
Proud Advisor
PRC Night at UAH Hockey Game
Santa Hawk!
Proud Grandpa :-)
Pick Pocket!
Hitting Series
Big 70th!
7 comments:
It was my good fortune and privilege to have Clark in my organization in the mid 60s at the Rocket Lab at Edwards. He was a great friend, a hard worker and very talented. His associates at the Lab, members of the rocket engine industry and all who knew him held him in the highest respect on both a personal and professional basis. Although I haven’t seen Clark since attending his RPL retirement party in Lancaster many years ago, I followed his later career with much interest and pride. A good and extraordinary man, and I am proud to have known him as my friend. My deepest sympathy goes out to his family in this time of such great loss.
Walter S. Moe Col USAF Retired
El Dorado Hills, CA
waltermoe@sbcglobal.net
Clark Hawk was a “gentleman and a scholar,” in the truest sense of the phrase. He was an outstanding engineer, was revered by all of us in the rocket propulsion community, and a leader who was admired by his students as well as his professional colleagues. My wife Linda and I will never forget the night of searching the streets, gutters, bridges, and restaurants of Alesund, Norway in 1994 with Clark and his lovely wife Julia for the diamond that fell out of Linda’s wedding ring. A photo recently sent to me by Bob Geisler reminded me of that unforgettable experience and I have attached it to this note.
We will miss you Clark but we will never forget you.
Al & Linda McDonald
I worked with Dr. Hawk at Edwards Air Force Base in 1990. I enjoyed that time, and I'm very sorry for the loss that you and all of us have suffered.
Tom Hill
tom.hill@nasa.gov
Clack was a good leader with a strong knowledge and skill of his field. His contributions, both direct and indirect, have enriched us all while beggaring us all with his departure.
Dr. Hawk was a great man. I remember my first meeting with him at AFRPL 30 years ago when I was a new engineer in the propulsion industry. Dr. Hawk was a distinguished senior leader with the Air Force’s premier center for propulsion and he radiated humanity, dignity, and encouragement that immediately established him as an outstanding role model to a green engineer.
Throughout Clark’s life he inspired the development of advanced propulsion by encouraging people to do great things and at UAH and across our industry his encouragement developed great people inspired by propulsion.
Clark’s positive influence will continue to reinforce the priority of human value across our relationships for generations to come.
Clark will be missed while deep condolences are extended to Mrs. Hawk and their family.
Sincerely,
Bill Kearney
Aerojet
Sacramento, CA
bill.kearney@aerojet.com
I'm very sorry to hear this sad news about Clark's passing. I viewed him as a highly knowledgeable combustion and propulsion engineer with strong leadership abilities. I believe it is a great loss for all of us. I would like to take this opportunity to give my deepest condolences to his family members. We shall always miss him.
Ken Kuo
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and
Director of the High Pressure Combustion Laboratory of PSU
27 February 2008
I am saddened to learn about Clark. I saw him once a year at the AIAA Fellows dinner and always enjoyed commending him for making a success out of the UAH Propulsion Laboratory. He was always upbeat and positive. Clark grew a laboratory in an era when others were either retrenching or shutting down.
I know his accomplishments will always be appreciated. His UAH shoes will be very hard to fill.
Clark will be missed.
Len
Leonard H. Caveny
Fort Washington, MD
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