Richard Franklin CLAPP

Met Mr Clapp several times. He was the father of my very good Friend, Skip Clapp. Mr Clap was brilliant, but he also was a very, very kind and generous person. This old world was a better place for having him in it.

Captain Richard Clapp was one of the most effective environmental heath professionals to have ever served in the United States Public Health Service. He was one of the first specialists – then called “Sanitarians” - to have joined the PHS Commissioned Corps. In 1943 he began a 30 year career of service with distinction, which included a seminal assignment to the US Centers for Disease Control where he trained many of the early contributors to the environmental health movement across the...

That name caught my eye & as I read on things fell into place. He was Director of the USPHS School in Columbus, Ga. in the fall of 1952. I was there as a newly hired Sanitarian for the Macon-Bibb Co., Ga. Health Dept. It was a good course & Dick made it interesting & fun. I have remembered him fondly over the years. I hope his life was as good as it was long.

That name caught my attention & as I read on things fell into place. He was the Director of the USPHS School in Columbus, Ga. in the fall of 1952. I was there as a newly hired Sanitarian for the Macn-Bibb Co., Ga. Health Dept. It was a good course & Dick made it interesting & fun. Have remembered him fondly over the years. Hope his life was as good as it was long.

DICK CLAPP WAS SUPREME ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST FOR THE CDC. AN EXCELLENT LEADER, TEACHER AND ALL-AROUND HUMAN BEING. IT WAS AN HONOR TO HAVE WORKED FOR HIM IN THE U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE. TO SONS SKIP AND MIKE- WE'LL ALL MISS DICK- HE WAS TRULY AN OUTSTANDING PERSON IN ALL THAT HE DID. JIM STEWART, ATLANTA, GA.

My condolence to the Clapp family.

Mr. Clapp was a remarkable strong man and true to Psalm 90:10 "The span of our life is 70 years, or 80 if one is especially strong or because of special mightiness from GOD.