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Clark Tyler
The author is a professional writer who began his professional career as a publicist for the American Broadcasting Company, promoting Woody Woodpecker,
Jim Backus, Pat Boone and Carol Burnett amon...view moreThe author is a professional writer who began his professional career as a publicist for the American Broadcasting Company, promoting Woody Woodpecker,
Jim Backus, Pat Boone and Carol Burnett among others. His first writing contract was as a lyric and comedy writer for the network radio show “Flair”
starring Dick Van Dyke. He joined the Johnson administration in 1963 as a press aide and speechwriter and later received a presidential appointment
requiring Senate confirmation. The rest of his career was as a senior executive at Amtrak, a regional advertising agency and two minority businesses in
the mass transit industry. He majored in American government at Harvard. However, his most fulfilling role was as a Sunday school teacher for the
past 21 years – working with and training children age 6 to teens.
His book, “Singin’ in the Reign,” is not only a collection of seven complete musical Bible-based plays, but a chronicle of how his students’ input and
ideas helped to construct these presentations for mature audiences in nursing and retirement homes (and other churches). This is done in such a way
that takes advantage of that very special chemistry between kids 6 to12 and older citizens. The photos of this process clearly show the success of this
targeted emphasis.
In the early 1940’s, the author attended a one-room county school in North Rupert Vermont. That school had weekly visits from a teacher, complete with
flannel board, who taught memorable Bible lessons. In that sense Mr. Tyler’s book is a kind of a “living flannel board.”
A self-described crowning achievement was accomplished on two recent trips to Romania. A non-profit group engaged in the rescue, rehabilitation and
adoption of abused/abandoned children, asked him to work with groups of these kids at a local summer camp in the foothills of Transylvania. Taking
scenes from several of his plays, he taught these special children pantomime presentationsof many
of the parables of Jesus. In spite of the fact that these kids spoke
only Romanian (Tyler, only English), their presentations were the hit of the camp.
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Books by Clark Tyler
Singin' in the Reign: A Collection of Original Musical Plays Created for the Purpose of Teaching Biblical Lessons to Children and Also to Serve as an “Outreach Ministry” to Nursing and Retirement Homes and to the Community.