M. Rita Clark (September 12, 1915 – May 9, 2008) was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
[2] After graduating from Johnstown Catholic High School (now Bishop McCort High School) in 1933, she pursued higher education studies at the College of St. Francis (now the University of St. Francis) in Illinois from 1934 to 1935.
She then earned her Bachelor of Science degree in English and social studies in 1937 at the State Teachers College in Lock Haven (now Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania), and received her teaching certificate from the University of Pittsburgh in 1938.
[7][8] A lector and member of Visitation BVM Catholic Church's parish council and its Mother Seton Guild, Clark was also a senior peer counselor for the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, a past president of the Johnstown Catholic Forum and the director, for a decade, of the Bishop McCort Alumni Association's annual fundraising drive.
[2] A member of the Johnstown Community Concert Association and the Mercy Hospital Guild, she was also actively involved with the Mercy-Lee Charity Ball Committee.