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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Mr. Richard M. Stubbs

Harry Clement Stubbs
Born: June 30, 1922
Died: October 29, 2003
Graduated from Harvard, 1943 {B.S. Astronomy)
Masters Degrees in Chemistry and Education

Entered Army Air Corps, 1943. Flew 35 combat missions as copilot and pilot in Liberator (B-24) bombers with the 8th Air Force.
Recalled to active duty in 1951, he spent eight months as a squadron executive officer at Bolling Air Force Base and sixteen months as a technical instructor at the Armed Forces Special Weapons School in Sandia Base, New Mexico.

Wrote science fiction under the pseudonym "Hal Clement." His first story, "Proof," appeared in the June 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction (now Analog) Magazine, and his first novel, "Needle," serialized there in 1949. His best known story, "Mission of Gravity," appeared in 1953 and has been in print most of the time since. Other well known novels are "Iceworld," "Close to Critical," "Star Light," and "Still River" (DelRey, June 1987; paperback February 1989). "Fossil" was published in November, 1993 by Daw Books.
In 1999, was named a "Grand Master" sci-fi writer by the Science Fiction Writers of America, thus joining the elite group of about a dozen other Grand Masters.

High School Science teacher from 1947 until his retirement in 1987: Astronomy, Chemistry, General Science.
Served the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers as a Division Chairman, in various positions for its regular Summer Conferences, and finally as President. He is an honorary member of NEACT and of Aula Laudis, an honor organization of high school teachers.

At the 1969 World Science Fiction convention in Los Angeles, a special "Hugo" Award (the highest honor in science fiction writing) was awarded to the Apollo 11 astronauts for "Best Moon Landing." He was asked to accept it on behalf of astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins.

Married Mary Elizabeth Myers in 1952. Two sons, George Clement and Richard Myers, and a daughter, Christine (Mrs. David O. Hensel). Hal had a grandson, Jackson Clement Stubbs