Daily News | Martin K. Brown, former principal of the Greenfield School, community volunteer, mentor, traveler, has died at 97
Mr. Brown at the 40th anniversary celebration for the Greenfield School, holding a custom letterman jacket.Martin K. Brown, 97, of Philadelphia, the longtime principal of the Albert M. Greenfield School, a devoted community volunteer, travel consultant, Center City neighborhood pillar, and Army veteran died Monday, July 11, of complications of dementia in his grandchildren’s home in West Chester.
Mr. Brown was quick to offer a job reference, career advice, a joke, or a listening ear for his former students, Vellucci said, many of whom also lived in the neighborhood and would stop by to catch up and recount stories from their time at Greenfield. For decades and long into retirement, Mr. Brown swapped birthday cards every year with a student who shared his birth date, Feb. 28.
After the war, Mr. Brown returned to Penn to finish his schooling. There, he also met his future wife,In 1954, Mr. Brown was selected as principal of the Center City School, the, where he would serve for 23 years. He also led the Youth Study Center on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway — a facility for youth awaiting court hearings.
“He just always felt he was Mr. Brown,” Vellucci said, adding that it wasn’t uncommon for neighborhood parents to ask the principal to have a talk with their children if they were misbehaving. “He wouldn’t put the trash out if he didn’t have a tie on.”recalled how during teacher observation, Mr. Brown wouldn’t sit in the back of the classroom and silently take notes on her performance. Instead, she said, Mr. Brown would join her at the board, teaching alongside her, “always with added humor.
A neighborhood fixture, Mr. Brown and his wife were known for working the food booth at the annual Fitler Square Park Fair, slinging hot dogs, hamburgers, and lemon sticks.
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