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Yelverton’s high school years coincided with [[World War II]]. A teacher encouraged him to study [[Latin]]. He became so fascinated with the subject – [[Julius Caesar]], [[Cicero]], [[Tacitus]], [[Livy]], and [[Virgil]] — that in 1949 he received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in Latin from [[Louisiana State University]] at [[Baton Rouge]], as well as a commission in the [[United States Air Force]] Reserve.<ref name=obit/> He procured a tuition scholarship at LSU and was given a [[minimum wage]] job at the LSU Poultry Farm, where he resided during his college years. From 1949 to 1951, Yelverton taught Latin at the defunct Sewanee Military Academy in Sewanee, [[Tennessee]], where he also excelled as a [[boxing]] coach. In 1951, he obtained a Judah Touro Fellowship in classical languages at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]], from which he received a [[Master of Arts]] in Latin. He then taught Latin at St. Martin’s Episcopal School inMetairie in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an New Orleans.<ref name=obit/>​

Yelverton’s high school years coincided with [[World War II]]. A teacher encouraged him to study [[Latin]]. He became so fascinated with the subject – [[Julius Caesar]], [[Cicero]], [[Tacitus]], [[Livy]], and [[Virgil]] — that in 1949 he received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in Latin from [[Louisiana State University]] at [[Baton Rouge]], as well as a commission in the [[United States Air Force]] Reserve.<ref name=obit/> He procured a tuition scholarship at LSU and was given a [[minimum wage]] job at the LSU Poultry Farm, where he resided during his college years. From 1949 to 1951, Yelverton taught Latin at the defunct Sewanee Military Academy in Sewanee, [[Tennessee]], where he also excelled as a [[boxing]] coach. In 1951, he obtained a Judah Touro Fellowship in classical languages at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]], from which he received a [[Master of Arts]] in Latin. He then taught Latin at St. Martin’s Episcopal School inMetairie in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an New Orleans.<ref name=obit/>​

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==Military and legal career==​

==Military and legal career==

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On [[Valentine's Day]] 1953, Yelverton married the former Lorraine LeJeune of Addis in West Baton Rouge Parish. Yelverton was soon called by the Air Force to active duty as an intelligence officer with the [[Strategic Air Command]]. Lorraine joined him in the military, and in 1954, Clark J. Yelverton, the oldest of their seven children, was born at an Air Force installation in [[Spokane]], [[Washington]].<ref name=obit/>​

On [[Valentine's Day]] 1953, Yelverton married the former Lorraine LeJeune of Addis in West Baton Rouge Parish. Yelverton was soon called by the Air Force to active duty as an intelligence officer with the [[Strategic Air Command]]. Lorraine joined him in the military, and in 1954, Clark J. Yelverton, the oldest of their seven children, was born at an Air Force installation in [[Spokane]], [[Washington]].<ref name=obit/>​

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