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Assemb. Annette Robinson praised the educator's legacy of turning around schools that no one else could handle. "The superintendent said Tm bringing in [Frank "Mick" Mickens] like he was the 'Great I Am,'" remembered Robinson. She told the congregation of the enthusiasm he had when he raised money for scholarships or when the students got on the "stage and waived their certificates and said, 'I'm going to college!"'
"More than anybody else I've ever met, he did it his way," said Comptroller Bill Thompson, adding that to call the fellow Bed-Stuy man "unique is an understatement. Frank was a special person. He knew all his kids' names [4,000-plus]. He inspired our kids to be the greatest. I don't know how many jobs he was offered [with the former board of education]; he didn't want to leave his kids.""Frank Mickens made a difference in our community," [Al Sharpton] stated as he eulogized the man. He did good in his time: that dash between the two dates no one can choose, birth and death. "Control your dash," Sharpton urged, and it became a great chant throughout the church: "Control your dash."Not just an extraordinary school principal, educational master planner and author, Mickens was also a phenomenal coach. Who could forget his instrumental Dress for Success Program (no caps; no jewelry; ties for boys; and blouses for girls) or his patrolling both the school and the perimeter come checking out time, hollering on his bullhorn to right some not-inhis-school misdemeanors?See the full content of this document
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Dr. Mickens has Gone Home
"There is talk that we should name the Boys and Girls High School after Frank Mickens," Deona Coke, a BGHS alumnus, told the AmNews. The former student was among the thousands who paid tribute this weekend to Principal Frank Mickens, who died in his sleep at age 63 on July 9.
At the Friday night memorial, held at Boys and Girls High School, education bigs like Dr. Adelaide Sandford, Dr. Lester Young, S...See the full content of this document
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