PATERSON, N.J. — Joe Louis Clark, the principal at Paterson, New Jersey's Eastside High who inspired a major motion picture, died Tuesday at the age of 82, his family announced. A longtime resident of ...
Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his ...