User:R Gregory Clark

(R)obert Gregory Clark Boston, Massachusetts Dallas, Texas

R Gregory Clark was born on 24 September 1955 in Boston, Massachusetts. Growing up he later relocated to Fanwood, New Jersey; North Wales, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia; and at the age of 11, back to Scituate, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. It was from here that he embarked on his "move around the country" yet saw the world. R Gregory, ("Greg,") went to college at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, North Carolina in 1973. He graduated four years later having received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting. One day after graduation he started his career in the hotel business at the Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. The property at the time was termed the "World's Tallest Hotel" at 73 stories and 1,134 rooms. It's owner and architect, John Portman, had selected Westin Hotels, a then-division of United Airlines, to operate the then-newest hotel in Atlanta which opened on 31 December 1976, just five months before Greg joined the hotel's Night Audit Staff. owned by John Portman and operated by Westin Hotels.