User:Vegetarian

User:Vegetarian is Maynard S. Clark of Boston. http://Maynard.Clark.GooglePages.com and Maynard (dot) Clark (at) gmail (dot) com

Maynard S. Clark of Boston has been featured in Marquis's Who's Who since the early 1990s, presumably because of his visionary early-adopter use of new technologies in advancing vegetarianism, vegetarian ideas, and the participatory development of vegetarian community, activities, and social culture. He has been listed also in several Who's Who volumes by competitors of Marquis.

He was born a Southerner and reared as a Midwesterner; educated in Chicago, California, and Massachusetts; and adopted internationally by the global vegetarian, humane, global health, professional, educational, and bioethics communities.

He is single and has never married. He credits his becoming and remaining 'an early vegan' for his perpetual singleness, despite a nearly 3.5:1 female-to-male ratio among vegetarians and vegans in the Americas and the English-speaking world; alternatively, he credits being 'holding moderately conservative social views' and 'not feeling overt hostilities for religious communities' for his not 'matching' among visible and vocal vegans. This 'bland' non-antagonism may be part of why, throughout his adult and professional life, he has been invited to participate in the lay and leadership communities of a variety of disparate religious communities who are often at odds with one another, communities with which he was not affiliated.

Profitable Employment

Maynard S. Clark of Boston is employed by the Harvard Medical School of Boston and has been employed there since the 1990s. In the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, he has served (when GHSM was DSM) on the Green Team, the Website Committee, and the Social Committee and over the years (covering two decades) has volunteered for various special projects and events.

He is also Program Manager for the annual Ethical Issues in Global Health Research course in the Department of Global Health and Population in the Harvard School of Public Health, previously known as the HSPH Department of Population and International Health. EIGHR was begun in 1999 with a 2-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to Dr. Richard A. Cash, a medical doctor teaching in GHP who is famous for developing oral rehydration therapy (aka ORT) in the developing world, with the 3rd party claim that Dr. Cash's ORT has saved more lives less glamorously and less expensively than all HIV work today. The intensive summer course, which has run successfully and profitably for 11 years, draws from the developed and developing world medical experts involved with designing, conducting, supervising, funding, or approving health research across several nations.

For both jobs, he is seated physically in the Francis Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health & Human Rights at 651 Huntington Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, near Brigham Circle.

He's named on the Green Committee for HUCTW at Harvard.

Previously, Maynard had since the turn of the century been Senior Production Coordinator for the Tape Transcription Center, owned by The Skill Bureau, a 40+-year old staffing agency in the heart of Boston.

The Vegetarian Part

Before attending graduate school at Harvard in Cambridge, where he became vegetarian then vegan (he has continued being vegan for over half his natural life now), he was designated a "most widely-read undergraduate" while at California State University in Hayward (CSUH has since become CSUEB, California State University, East Bay). He had long resisted 'going vegetarian' with the excuse, "I'm NOT a 'do-gooder'."

As a vegetarian community organizer and planner and developer of events, he helped (with several national vegetarian organizations) to organize several national, continental, and international-scale vegetarian events, such as the 8th International Vegan Festival (in San Diego, CA, in 1995), the Great American Meatout (organized by FARM, where he was regional or national outreach coordinator for several years in a row around the late '80s and early '90s), and the 1996 World Vegetarian Congress (held with NAVS in Johnstown, PA). He also developed the groundwork for the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival, organizing a team and helping directing its first several years of development, before passing the event over to the Boston Vegetarian Society, an organization which he ALSO founded in the mid-1980s. Further, during the late 1990s and the turn of the 21st century, he laid the groundwork of networking, which eventually emerged as the Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA) in 2002, after Rev. Frank L. Hoffman of New York developed the All-Creatures.org website portal, which hosts a CVA mirror site.

He has reviewed vegetarian books before as early as the 1970s and social science and religion books as early as the early 1970s.

He is currently Executive Director of the Vegetarian Resource Center, based in Cambridge, MA, an all-volunteer organization, where he serves without financial compensation, and he hosts the Boston Vegan Meetup and the Boston Vegetarian Meetup, local social networking groups respectively for vegans and vegetarians, often attracting newcomers to two who are looking for veg*an connections; these 'tire kickers' are welcomed and then encouraged to network both immediately (in the Meetups) and also in local vegetarian and/or related interest, networking, activist, and/or social groups). He has also served as Volunteer Coordinator of the Boston Vegan Association and as Acting President of its Public Speakers' Workshop.

He continues to manage numerous online resources for vegans and vegetarians: some controlled-access networking venues, and some open-ended discussion venues.

Maynard S. Clark reflects on WHY Make the Vegetarian Part SO Very Public?: "Why Did I Become PUBLICLY Vegetarian?"

"In pondering the question, 'If you left this planet today, what would "history" say about you? can only think of my efforts to manage my historical epitaph. Because of my efforts in public, 'historians' today would likely say that Maynard S. Clark was a vegetarian, a long-term vegan, who worked and studied at Harvard and promoted animal rights.

I worried about this question decades ago and figured that, if I served as a clergyman (I studied for 5 years in the Harvard Divinity School), historians would overlook 'the vegetarian part' as they did for religious leaders and reformers like Charles Wesley, the famous Christian hymnwriter, brother of John Wesley, founder of Methodism; the various religious orders who were also vegetarian; and countless others, as well as those 'on the fringe' such as Ellen G. White (founder of the Seventh Day Adventist movement engaged with food reform and vegetarianism), Mary Baker Eddy (founder of Christian Science), and Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society; as they forgot that Gautama Buddha was vegetarian, Guru Nanak (founder of Sikhism) was vegetarian, and King Asoka of India (273?-232 BC ), who reportedly helped converted India from meat-eating to largely vegetarianism.

In light of our global ecological crises, the recognition of the personhood of nonhumans, and the great social injustices to human beings - as well as the nutritional inefficiencies and harms - of meat-eating, overlooking one's historic vegetarian contributions would be a great injustice. I shifted the course of my personal life and work."

Vegetarian Resource Center Accomplishments

The Vegetarian Resource Center is credited with:

• Establishing on-line resources that have led to the founding of the Christian Vegetarian Association, several Muslim vegetarian networks, Sikh and Bahai vegetarian networks, and the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians
• Establishing the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival, the major organizing tool and fundraiser for the Boston Vegetarian Society.
• Instigating community organizing discussions among vegetarians and vegans

Interests and Avocations

He is an avid sudoku player and loves classical music, vegan whole foods cooking, particularly the LIGHT cooking (and even non-heated preparation) of vegetables, Facebook, blogging, meticulous recycler, and digital photography. He traveled to India in September 2006 for the IVU's 37th World Vegetarian Congress in Goa, after which he vege-toured three of India's many states: Goa, Karnataka, and Maharashtra (where Mumbai/Bombay is located).

He is an avid MBTA rider and advocate of public transportation. Until recently, he interviewed regional and local celebrities, newsmakers, and significant social contributors on his talking heads TV show, "Monday Night Live" on MATV. MNL had run for a decade as "Malden Public Radio" with Joe Mokler, David D'Arcangelo, and many OTHER politically-savvy Maldonians; Joseph Mokler (with James Chiavelli) had produced a monthly print journal, "Malden Magazine" to accompany the weekly MPR TV broadcast of "Malden Public Radio", ending that publication around 2000.

He's an aggressive blogger and social media advocate; he's lectured to vegetarian conferences on using these tools. His Facebook friends number over 4500, his LinkedIn contacts nearly 1250, and his blog readership passed a million early in 2009 and are now nearly 1.25 million.

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Unpaid (Volunteer) Employment

• Boston Vegetarian Society - Founder in 1984 through early 21st century)
• International Vegetarian Union - Vice President of VUNA, Regional Councillor for N Am.
• FARM = Farm Animal Reform Movement - National Education Coordinator, Great American Meatout annual outreach campaign
• NAVS = North American Vegetarian Society
• Great American Meatout
• Boston Vegan Association - Life Member, Coordinator of Volunteers; Membership Coordinator

Massachusetts Cities of Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, and Malden (Recycling committees) Steering Committee of Somerville MA Recycling Committee

Animal Rights Involvements

• New England Anti-Vivisection Society - Life Member
• National Anti-Vivisection Society - Life Member
• American Anti-Vivisection Society - Life Member
• CEASE - Life Member

Vegetarian Involvements

• International Vegetarian Union- Life Member, Benefactor
• North American Vegetarian Society - Life Member, Benefactor
• Boston Vegetarian Society - Life Member, Founder
• Boston Vegan Association - Life Member, Coordinator of Volunteers; Membership Coordinator
• Vegetarian Union of North America - Life Member, Past Vice President and Regional Council Member
• Vegan Outreach- Volunteer

Paid Employment

CURRENT:

• Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of the Harvard Medical School
• Program Manager of the Ethical Issues in Global Health Research program
• Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard School of Public Health

PAST:

• Tape Transcription Center (TTC)
• The Skill Bureau (TSB)
• Fidelity Investments, FTPS
• Tufts University

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