Clark Reynolds
1934-March 9, 2009
Stanford, California

Clark Reynolds, 74, a Stanford University economics professor, died March 9 from pulmonary fibrosis.

He become a Stanford faculty member in 1967 after teaching for six years at Occidental College and at Yale. He met with Latin American leaders in 1969 about social and economic development policies as part of a panel created by then-President President Richard Nixon. The panel concluded that the United States should ease trade restrictions with Latin American countries.

"That was a very exciting time for my dad," Rebecca Hemphill, one of his daughters, said. "He was very interested in equalization in terms of trade and alleviating poverty." '

He was born in 1934 in Chicago and moved with parents to San Diego when he was a teenager. He graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1956, was a graduate fellow in economics at MIT, spent a year at Harvard Divinity School and then earned a doctorate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He became a professor emeritus in 1996 and taught in China between 2001 and 2003.

In addition to Hemphill, who lives in Albuquerque, N.M., he is survived by his wife, Nydia Reynolds of Stanford; sister, Lynnette Eldridge of Milton, Fla.; sons C. Winton Reynolds III of Austin, Texas, and Matthew L. Reynolds of Santa Rosa; daughter Camila Reynolds of Los Angeles; four grandsons; one granddaughter; and several nieces and nephews.

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