Opinion: Remembering Ted Clark, great colleague — better friend

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Former NPR diplomatic correspondent and international editor Ted Clark died last week at age 79. Ted Clark died last week, at the age of 79. “Ted interviewed children,” Neenah told us. “When it was time to leave, Ted gave Manicu notebooks and pens and told him to study hard.”“I’m so glad I got to go there with Ted,” Neenah Ellis told us. “He always had a reverence about him.” Ted Clark was that exceptional journalist — and that rare soul — who always tried to find ways to help.