Dr. Terry Clark, marketing professor at SIU addressed the Herrin Area Historical Society at 2 p.m. Friday, January 22, 2016 at Herrin City Library. Originally a native of Newcastle in northern England, he revisited his extensive ties to the City of Herrin and his love for Southern Illinois in “An Englishman’s Observations of Herrin and Southern Illinois in the 1970’s.”

Clark first came to Herrin in the early 1970’s, living for a time on South 13^th Street, and among his friends and neighbors were such stalwarts of the community as Bob and Marilyn Hale, Edith Ellis, Lucille Vick Howell and Bill Barras. Clark has remarked, “To this day, whenever I drive into Herrin, I am flooded with memories of joy with the place.”

Clark earned an MBA at Southern in 1983, and completed his PhD at Texas A&M in 1987. Prior to returning to southern Illinois and SIU in 1999, Clark taught at Emory University and the University of Notre Dame. He has been frequently recognized for his teaching skills, and from 2007 until 2009 Clark headed Barking Dawg Productions, SIUC’s advertising agency.

Clark recalls, “Herrin was the first American town that I got to know. I used to walk into downtown, along the alleys, and I thought I was dreaming. It was love at first sight.”

This event was free and open to the public, and it is part of HAHS’s guest lecture series. For additional details about the HAHS, call 618-727-0432.