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Missy Clark speaks for Ron Major, credits wife Sharon for enabling his decades of service to Lorain City students
Summary
Missy Clark spoke on behalf of her father, Ron Major, saying he is recovering from brain surgery and had asked her to speak. She credited his wife, Sharon, with enabling his more than 30 years as an educator and student advocate to Lorain City students.
Missy Clark said she was speaking on behalf of her father, Ron Major, who is recovering from brain surgery and had asked her to speak for him. She told the meeting that Major is “perfectly capable of speaking, but I think he's just really tired and completely overwhelmed by the outpouring of support that he's received over the last couple weeks.”
Clark said the most important influence on Major’s life has been his wife, Sharon. She described Sharon as the partner who urged Major to earn a master’s degree in school counseling and who often shouldered family responsibilities while Major coached and mentored students. "Her support and encouragement allowed me to have a positive impact on Lorraine through my 30 plus years as an educator and student advocate," Clark said in the transcript; the speaker named the city's students in the remarks. (The transcript renders the city name as "Lorraine;" this article uses the verified local name "Lorain City" for clarity.)
Clark identified herself at the outset as Major’s oldest daughter and said she was speaking for him because he is recovering from recent brain surgery. She framed her remarks as a tribute and as an explanation for why Major was not speaking in person. Clark thanked the community for its support and emphasized the role Sharon played in enabling Major’s decades-long work with students.
The transcript contains a sequence of first-person lines that mix family references and gendered phrasing in a way that appears inconsistent (for example, references to "the man I am today" and "my wife of 57 years" appear in the same speaker turn). Those inconsistencies may indicate a speaker-labeling or transcription error; this article attributes the quoted and paraphrased remarks to Missy Clark according to the provided transcript. The record does not show any formal motion, vote, or other action connected to these remarks.
No further action or vote on the matter was recorded in the supplied transcript.
