A Brief History of Orlo H. Clark

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Orlo Herrick Clark was born on August 7, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Orlo Holly Clark, was a surgeon in private practice and his mother, Elizabeth Herrick Clark, was a nurse. While the bulk of his childhood was spent on the East Coast, Orlo spent 2 years in San Francisco (1944-1946) while his father was serving as a naval surgeon in the Pacific theater of World War II. The Clark family lived in the Park Merced neighborhood during this time, an area of San Francisco that is not too far from UCSF, where Orlo would eventually spend the entirety of his career in endocrine surgery. Although Orlo was quite young during this brief San Francisco sojourn, he believes that the seeds for his lifetime love for the city were planted during this time. …