Phyllis Clark Schwartz of Rapid City died December 15 at Fountain Springs Health Care Center. She was 87 years old. Phyllis A. Clark was born June 24, 1923 in Rapid City to Edwin E. and Gladys Reed Clark, the second of four children. Phyllis came from a long line of South Dakota pioneers. Her father was a long-time professor of electrical engineering at the SD School of Mines & Technology. Her maternal grandfather, John Z. Reed and his brothers William H. and Shelby D. were among the earliest homesteaders in eastern Pennington County. Her paternal great-grandfather, Charles Badger Clark, Sr., helped found Dakota Wesleyan College in Mitchell and preached the service at Calamity Jane's Deadwood funeral. She attended Rapid City schools, the University of Nebraska, and graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan College in 1944 with a degree in music education. She did graduate studies at the University of Chicago, and earned her Masters Degree in Remedial Reading from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Phyllis taught in many junior high and high schools throughout the midwest ending her career at Little Wound School in Kyle in 1992. She was a pioneer in remedial reading programs, creating the prototype for a nationwide program in Washington County, Iowa in 1964, and teaching the subject for many years. She married Theodore W. Schwartz in Lincoln, Nebraska on May 19, 1944 and during a marriage of 35 years lived in numerous communities throughout the midwest. They were divorced in 1979. Phyllis was the grand-niece of Badger Clark, South Dakota's first Poet Laureate. She was proud to serve as the first president of the Badger Clark Memorial Society founded in 1984, and volunteered as a docent at the Badger Hole in Custer State Park for many summers in the 1980's and 1990's. Since 2000 she has been a resident of the Sweeney House and Fountain Springs Health Care. She is survived by one daughter, Shebby Lee, of Rapid City, three grandchildren, Avram M. Lee of Sioux Falls, Murray J. Lee and Lorna Lee both of Rapid City, two great-granddaughters, one sister, Joan Greene of Las Vegas, NV, one brother, Peter Clark of Bend, OR, and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents and one brother, Edwin E. Clark, Jr. of Helena, MT.