Joe Clark, High School Principal Portrayed in ‘Lean on Me,’ Dies at 82 Joe Clark, the uncompromising New Jersey high school principal who employed a bullhorn and baseball bat to round his ...

Joe Louis Clark, an uncompromising educator who made national headlines by roaming the halls of Paterson's Eastside High School wielding ... He said his signature bat was not a threat but ...

Joe Clark, the no-nonsense, baseball-bat-wielding New Jersey high school principal who inspired the 1989 movie "Lean on Me," died Tuesday at age 82, his family announced. Clark died in his Florida ...

By Richard Sandomir Joe Clark, the imperious disciplinarian principal of a troubled New Jersey high school in the 1980s who gained fame for restoring order as he roamed its hallways with a ...

Educator Joe Clark has died at age 82. He gained fame — and notoriety — in the 1980s for a tough disciplinary record as principal of Eastside High School ... the credits to graduate ...

PATERSON, New Jersey (WABC) -- Joe Clark, the tough yet inspirational New Jersey high school principal portrayed by Morgan Freeman in the hit film "Lean on Me," has died at the age of 82.

Joe Clark, the New Jersey principal who inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me” starring Morgan Freeman, has died. He was 82. Clark’s death was announced by his family, who said he died on ...