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Note: I remember my father as being a very compassionate man, the type of person who would stop and help a strangers who found themselves in one jam or another. He also had a soft heart for animals. When I was in second or third grade, we were having mouse problems in our rented place near Lake Erie in Euclid. My father devised a mouse trap from a cigar box, cutting a hole in the side and placing some oatmeal in the box. The box was placed on the kitchen counter where there had been mouse evidence the night before and waited. It was not far into the evening after I had gone to bed that my father heard small sounds in the kitchen coming from the box. He crept in and turned the box so that the hole was to the wall, trapping the mouse in the box until morning when he would show me. The next morning, we went to the box and with great ceremony opened the top. The mouse had vanished and so had the oatmeal, but the mouse had left several small dark calling cards. It quickly became evident that my father had rotated the box too far, and instead of pointing the exit hole to the wall, he had turned it so the mouse could leave in the other direction on the counter. He loved hiking, and when he was not working he would take the family for hikes and picnics in parks, or fishing. This love of the outdoors was passed along to both his sons. Clarence Edward Darling was a chemical engineer and graduated at Rensselaer Polytechnic al Institute in Troy, New York in 1926. Shortly after graduating he became interested in applying industrial engineering principles to sales problems and served a number of corporations: (1926-27) Public Service Electric & Gas Co, Newark, NJ. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1927-29); American Standards Association (1929-30); J. Walter Thompson Co., (1930-31); Dobson Engineering Co. (1932); E.I. Dupont de Nemours, Grascelli Chemicals Dept. (1934-43); McKinsey & Co. (1943-44); Daniel Starch & Staff, General Manager (1945); Barrett Division, Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. (1945-54); He taught evening courses in Industrial marketing at College of the City of New York. He was a member, American management Association, American Marketing Association, Chemical Market Research Association; RPI Alumni Advisory Council; President Westchester Alumni Association; F & AM and Royal Arch Mason. Member of the Town Club of Scarsdale, served on several committees. Director of Arthur Manor Association and a member of Community Baptist Church. They lived in Wilmington, Delaware when their first child was born. The moved to Scarsdale, Westchester county, New York. About 1952 my father sustained a serious heart attack and the family moved to lived with Emily's relatives on a farm in Trumansburg, Tompkins county, NY. After a year they moved to Euclid, Ohio, and later to Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
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