Joe Clark, Legendary Eastside High School Principal Portrayed by Morgan Freeman in ‘Lean On Me’, Dies at 82

*Joe Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, NJ, in the 1980s, died Tuesday at his home in Gainesville, Florida after a long, undisclosed illness, according to his family. He was 82. Clark demanded excellence and obedience through an autocratic approach. He was known for wielding a baseball bat […]

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