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CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF PLAINFIELD SCHOOLS LEADER SET FOR JAN. 12
Everyone is invited to a Celebration of the Life of Herbert T. Green, who died in the home where
his wife grew up on Evergreen Avenue in Plainfield, Saturday, January 12, at 2 pm at Emerson
Community School in the City.
Green, 87, a World War II veteran and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, lived in Plainfield since
1957. He died Nov. 9.
Among other tributes, his widow Marjorie Braverman Green will read excerpts from letters children in
Plainfield Public Schools who had known her husband as a Resident Reader at Clinton and Evergreen
Schools wrote to send their condolences.
Paul L. Tractenberg, the Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor and the Alfred C. Clapp
Distinguished Service Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School – Newark, will conduct the ceremony.
Tractenberg founded the Education Law Center at the law school in 1973, and is considered the most
important figure in school funding equalization in the state, representing 350,000 urban students,
including those in Plainfield.
Although he started his career as sports director of Channel 13, then located in New Jersey, and went
on to be general manager there and at Channel 47, Green was most passionate about urban education.
He served as president of the PTA at several Plainfield public schools, two terms on the Board of
Education, was a Resident Reader, and was founder and director of the Public Education Institute at
Rutgers University, from which he retired in 2011.
Among other distinctions, Green, in 1978, became the first man to head a local League of Women
Voters chapter in New Jersey, in 1978, Plainfield's, then took on that role again 30 years later. He was
first vice-president of the group when he died.
During the ceremony, visitors will be asked to write recollections in notebooks placed around the room.
Emerson School is located on Emerson Avenue, at East Third Street, one block east of Leland Avenue.
In addition to his widow, Green is survived by two sons, Charles M. and Joseph B., a daughter-in-law
Janice, five grandchildren and a nephew.
The family asks that memorial gifts be made to the Plainfield Area Humane Society, 75 Rock Ave.,
Plainfield, N.J. 07063.
Further information is available on the blog spot of the Plainfield League of Women Voters.
There, too, will be an opportunity for people to leave comments. The Internet address is
http://plainfieldleague.
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