In retirement, he worked parttime for Butler & MacMaster Automotive, and several law firms as a bonded messenger. Johnsbury Trucking Company from which he retired in 1983. Law enforcement was his passion but three years later, in order to provide for an expanding family, he went to work for St. His accomplishments included bringing modern training to members of both departments, starting the first police photography section, hiring school crossing guides for all schools in Gardiner, and changing Water and Mechanic Streets to one-way for better traffic control at the time. In 1952, at the age of 27, he was named Chief of Police for the City of Gardiner and, in 1956, was named Gardiners first Commissioner of Public Safety, heading up both the police and fire departments. He became a Gardiner police officer in 1949 and graduated in 1951 from the Maine State Police Academy. Clyde married Elizabeth Lovely of Gardiner on June 7, 1947.

For all of his life, he was very proud of his military service as was his entire family. He earned Battle Stars for the retaking of Guam and Iwo Jima. Marine Corps and served for three years in the Pacific Theater. In 1942, at the age of 17, he enlisted in the U.S. His father died in 1944 and his mother in 1982.

He was born in Gardiner on February 16, 1925, the son of Forrest A. MacMaster, 91, passed away in a Brunswick hospital on July 25, 2016, from complications after surgery for a broken hip.

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