In Memory

Clive Church



 
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04/23/13 07:17 PM #1    

Christine Kaufman

Clive was always "the brain" from his early days at Irving Park Elementary School through Schurz years.  He was quiet, unassuming and a gentle soul.

When he received the only B he'd every gotten at Schurz we threw him a party...he was embarassed but attended.  His  mind is a terrible thing to lose.


04/25/13 09:16 AM #2    

Mary Sargent (Crichlow)

Clive was the epitomy of GEEKY when we were in school. He was so smart that it was difficult to compete with him on any acedemic level. We did have fun Mary


05/08/13 02:09 PM #3    

Charles Rimpila

 

I remember Clive Church, he was in some of my classes.

He was a year or two younger and was short in stature

and he always carried a big brief case everywhere. 

He was very smart and always did well in school.

He was voted "Best Student."

He set a good example.

I am sorry that he is not here any more. 


06/20/13 12:58 AM #4    

Kenneth Zych (Kenneth Zych)

 

I remember Clive very well; he was short in stature but a giant intellect.  I was so impressed when he told me that he had won a full scholarship to the University of Chicago.  I was hoping to chat with him re his life. 


06/21/13 11:03 AM #5    

Michael Callahan

I first met Clive in grammar school in 1950 (kindergarten).

 

He had wonderful parents and a lovely sister (Deborah, I believe)

He was a "brain" not at all athletic, but always willing to try.

 

Michael Callahan


06/21/13 07:58 PM #6    

Glenn Gardner

Ah, Clive....there was a genius (no " " needed) for you, whom I still mention to people.  Sorry we couldn't have made life more joyous for him.  I met him somehow, surely though Wildwood/Edgebrook friends in his homeroom.  He recruited me to join ROTC.  He was an easy cadet to share with.  We both had basement chemistry labs, so he invited me over to his house for experiments...and so enjoyed meeting his dad (a former Schurz teacher I think) and projects.  He (later we) did a maquette for a ROTC competition and ended up winning 2nd or 3rd place in the city (a Nike missile base, with plastic missiles that went up and down...his mechanical invention) which was displayed in the storefront of the Mom & Pops store.  Yep, he did once get an "E" instead of an "S" and came to me rather distraught...I told him not to worry, next time he'd get an S again.  Don't remember if I went to the party mentioned above to ease his pain.  We were lab partners for both Chemistry and Physics, I think (Chuck Malsbury helped me with Biology, and learning how to print).  In ROTC, we both were chosen the same year for the City Corps Staff and went downtown to the Board of Education ceremony.  I ended up outranking him slightly, but it never phased him.  Including, we both got outranked by someone else the last year....mostly because we did our homework in ROTC at the back of the room and left the teaching to someone else.  He wrote to me several times while we were in college.  Years later, after returning from Germany (and about to start at UChicago),John Madej and I went to visit him at the Fermi Institute on campus.  When asked what he'd been doing for those years, he didn't say much....just showed us, on the (oscilloscope-like) computer screen: a space ship that fired off little bullets on the screen.  Quite a thing way back in 1970.  Don't know why I (we all) didn't keep in closer contact....he was so valuable a person and mind...a good inspiration for all of us...


06/23/13 09:56 AM #7    

Nancy Norman (Aldridge)

I remember Clive from Irving Park Elementary School and our neighborhood called "The Villa"  He would be walking home on the same route I took -always with his briefcase and often with his friend Scotty Goldsmith.  His sister Debby was in the same class as my sister Carol and they played after school together.  Debby has also passed away and had one son. I believe Clive died at age 50 from a massive heart attack.


06/25/13 11:11 AM #8    

Catherine Parr

I remember Clive Church as being a very kind person.  Clive was quiet but I remember he once helped me pick up my books from the corridor floor after they were "accidently" knocked out of my hands.  So sorry to learn of his early passing. Catherine Parr 


08/07/13 05:05 AM #9    

Jon Anderson

I met Clive in German class freshman year where he excelled and I struggled.

The next year ,I saw a competitve side of Clive that probably contributed to his academic success. During the first semester of our sophomore year, I achieved the pinnacle of my academic life at Schurz when I scored second highest in our class on the standardized final test in geometry ( Scott Goldsmith was first). The next semester, as I was completing the final, I noticed someone invading my space by standing very close to my desk. I looked up , it was Clive,who was in another geometry class but had stopped by, and he said, "Mr. Anderson, you have one and a half minutes left".I used the one and a half minutes and promptly turned my exam in as Clive watched. As it turned out, I dropped to fourth in our class on that semester's exam with Clive among the three topping me.

Having a distinquished student like Clive feel challenged by me was the highlight of my years at Schurz academically. Subsequently, I seldom came near to Clive's performance in the other classes that we had  together as juniors and seniors.He was our valedictorian becaues he was extremely smart---and competitive.


08/15/13 09:49 PM #10    

Linda Roth (VAN Dyke)

Clive Church, to me, was one of the three smartest people in our class.

The two others, Scotty Goldsmith, and Ruth Mazorana.

I will always remember, the wonderful party at his home.  The theme, an undergroud mine, or something like that.  We were all given names, i.e. name tags.  My new name was "Lodestone Linda."  Such imagination.  Clive, and his family, opened their home to Clive's classmates/

I will always have fond memories.  God Bless.

Linda Roth


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