2120                            JOINT RESOLUTIONS

In the Joint Resolution of 1958, "Uncle" Stringer is characterized
as "the cracker-barrel philosopher, the salty humorist, the past
master of a ready quip, the puncturing wit for State House egos, the
constant individualist, the consistent realist, the unreconstructed
rebel." The 1958 Resolution congratulated him also for the "ready
smile, the friendly greeting, the active mind, the zest for living with
great gusto."

The General Assembly of Maryland, as an epitaph to the memory
of a man who left an indelible print upon a whole generation of
legislative life, now records its deep regrets over his passing and
repeats the deep respect and affection in which he was held by literally
hundreds of legislators; now, therefore be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the deepest
sympathies of this body be expressed over the passing of Edwin L.
Stringer, for many years a legislative employee in the Annapolis
office of the Department of Legislative Reference; and be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of State of Maryland be directed,
under the Great Seal of the State of Maryland, to send a copy of
this Resolution to the surviving widow of "Uncle" Stringer, Mrs.
Edwin L. Stringer, 3621 Newark Street, N. W., Apt. 312, Washington
16, District of Columbia.

Approved February 26, 1963.

No. 5
(House Joint Resolution 13)

House Joint Resolution expressing sympathy on the death of R.
Duncan Clark.

R. Duncan Clark, prominent member of the Maryland Bar, died
on January 3, 1963, at the age of 54.

Mr. Clark was a graduate of the University of Maryland and re-
ceived his law degree from Harvard University in 1933. Following
graduation he practiced law in this State, and after return from
the United States Army Air Force, was elected to the Maryland
House of Delegates in 1946.

Mr. Clark was appointed Trial Magistrate for Montgomery County
in 1953. In 1955 he was appointed Commissioner of the State In-
dustrial Accident Commission.

Mr. Clark was quite active in the Republican party, serving as a
precinct chairman and on the State Central Committee.

Mr. Clark was a member of the Kiwanis Club of Bethesda, the
Bethesda Izaac Walton League, the Chevy Chase Country Club and
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He was a member of All
Saints Church in Chevy Chase.