R.I.P.: PA. Radio Broadcaster Harry Clark

Harry Clark

Harry L. Clark Jr., a broadcast pioneer, educator, and Hatboro, PA councilman, died Sept. 29, of aplastic anemia in Abington Hospice, Warminster.

He was 77-years-of-age according to philly.com.

Clark was a broadcast pioneer. Starting at age 3, he was heard on a WCAU radio program sponsored by Dolley Madison Ice Cream.

He was a regular on the Uncle WIP show on WIP radio for seven years. He also performed on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour broadcast nationally by ABC from New York, and on Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club, which originated live from 6ABC in Philadelphia.

As a college student, he hosted his own radio program over WKOK 1070 AM in Sunbury, Pa.; he worked with announcer Merrill Reese at WBCB in Levittown, as a disc jockey and newsman; and was a writer for KYW Newsradio.