Eastside High principal Joe Clark, depicted in ‘Lean One Me,’ dies at 82
Clark was at home and surrounded by his family when he succumbed to his long battle with illness on Tuesday Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding Principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods at Paterson, New Jersey’s Eastside High School inspired the 1989 film Lean on Me, has passed…