Professor Frank A. McClintock

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Frank McClintock Obituary

McCLINTOCK, Professor Frank A. Of Concord, died at 90 years of age on February 20, 2011. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Henry Lacy and Charlotte Smith McClintock. He is survived by Mary of Concord, his wife of 66 years, and their four children: Martha and her husband Joel Charrow of Chicago, Illinois and their children Ben and Julia; Roger and his wife Jane Jeffries, presently on the high seas off Thailand; David and his wife Nancy of Lyman, Maine and their daughter Sue; and Richard and his daughters Charlotte and Rayna of Denver, Colorado. The service will be held Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 2 PM at the First Parish Meetinghouse in Concord Massachusetts, followed by a reception in the parish hall. In lieu of flowers, please send any donations in Frank McClintock's name to the Ouray Trail Group, P.O. Box 50, Ouray, CO 81427 (http://www.ouraytrails.org). For obituary, directions or guest book visit www.deefuneralhome.com Dee Funeral Home of Concord (978) 369-2030 Caring for families since 1868

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Published by Boston Globe from Feb. 22 to Feb. 24, 2011.

Memories and Condolences
for Frank McClintock

4 Entries

Thomas L. De Fazio

February 25, 2011

Frank McClintock's attainments as an engineer and as a researcher were outstanding and recognized as such by his peers. FAM had had a strong personal discipline. An sport early had been ski jumping.

FAM had a wide and favorable influence on my education. FAM was the assigned instructor for my first professional course, mechanics of deformable bodies, first term, sophomore year ("2.001," then). I had the nominal preparation for the course, but was not fully mentally prepared, and I let pass some critical details, so I was falling behind. It was hard for me to realize that MIT would not be four years of "Popular Mechanics;" FAM took care of that idea quickly in his class. The course used analysis to occasionally destroy my own closely-held but faulty intuitions. FAM helped me along. He was always a tough taskmaster, but always willing to meet this student half-way. I must assume that he helped many other such students along too. FAM had his own strict professional agenda, as any MIT faculty had to have, but he always had the time to meet with a slipping but serious student and help him along. FAM took his instructional obligations seriously and handled them generously.

FAM taught a course that took up part of my junior year. Several instructors were responsible for the term-long projects, and I was one who volunteered for FAM's project section. There was both fear and appreciation in my decision -- fear of an uncompromising instructor; appreciation of the efforts and interest the man offered to his students. It was a wise decision.

FAM was a proper leader. He was a quiet man, but with steel. One event sticks with me. FAM had posed a problem to our small project group. A member of the group suggested a solution that had flaws. I piped up with something of a listing of the obvious flaws of the solution on the table. FAM spoke immediately and quietly, "Tom, constructive criticism only, please." I think you know what he had said in few words, but I'll make it explicit anyway. "Do not knock down another person's suggestions. Improve on his (her) suggestion, or suggest your own and perhaps better solution." That has stuck with me. It has been very useful.

FAM was widely appreciated in life, and will be widely missed now.

TLDeF

Anna Fisher

February 24, 2011

Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there. I did not die.

- Mary Elizabeth Frye

Franco D`Alleva

February 23, 2011

Dear Mrs. McClintock. please accept our sympathy on the passing of your husband.I remember him so well when he came and pic you up at the beauty Salon in Wayland.I hope you find confort with your family and you grandchildren.
Fondly Franco and Lena D`Alleva

Dennis Moore

February 22, 2011

Our thoughts are with Mary and the whole family at this time. The last time we saw Frank was in Colorado, and since we're back here now, we'll hold a family mountain top ceremony at A Basin in his remembrance on Saturday. Dennis, Jan, Seth, Keira, and Tess

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