Benjamin Keefe Clark: He Made a
Mean Meatloaf
Cooking
in the Marines is not what one might think of as the best
preparation for an executive chef.
But for Benjamin Keefe Clark, being a leatherneck chef
was his springboard to some classes at the Cordon Bleu
cooking school and finally to Sodexho, a food services
company that cooked for employees at Fiduciary Trust in 2
World Trade Center. Mr. Clark was famous for his soups
and meatloaf.
Mr. Clark, 39, and known as Keefe, was last seen on
the 88th floor helping a woman with three other men,
according to his wife, La-Shawn. None of them survived.
His son, Chaz, 17, saw the attack on the two towers from
Stuyvesant High School, where he is a student.
Chaz, his three brothers and one sister would often
get their parents to have a bake- off, always enjoying
the results but only rarely declaring their mother the
victor.
Mrs. Clark still dials Mr. Clark's office number,
waiting to talk to him. They met on the subway platform
at Penn Station; Mr. Clark offered to escort his future
wife home late one night.
He called and sent flowers for months after, until he
finally won her undivided attention. "We were so close
that everybody said we looked like brother and sister,"
she said.
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