Morning Call, The (Allentown, PA) - Sunday, December 10, 1995

MELVIN G. MACK, 84; BUCKS COUNTY IU ADMINISTRATOR

Melvin G. Mack, 84, of 3310 Mountain Avenue, Springtown, a teacher and school administrator, died Saturday at home. He was the husband of Evelyn C. (Pue) Mack and the late Glenna M. (Trumbore) Mack. He and his second wife were married 21 years in November 

Mack worked for what is now the Bucks County Intermediate Unit for 14 years, beginning as assistant superintendent in 1963 and retiring as assistant executive director in 1976, and helping to create the Middle Bucks Vocational-Technical School and Bucks County Community College. 

He was first president of the Upper Bucks Vocational-Technical School, begining in 1962, and supervising principal of the Palisades Joint School District for 15 years, beginning in 1948. After retiring from Bucks, he returned briefly to the Palisades District as superintendent of schools. 

From 1944-48, Mack was supervising principal of the Springfield Township Schools in Bucks County. Before that, he was a mathematics teacher and varsity football, wrestling and baseball coach at Bensalem Senior High School, Bucks County, and principal of the Green Lane-Marlborough Elementary School, Montgomery County. He began his career in a one-room rural school in Tylersport, Montgomery County, in 1935, where he taught for two years. 

A 1934 graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, he also received a master's degree in school administration from the University of Pennsylvania. 

Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of the late Charles H. and Mabel A. (Class) Mack. 

He was a member of New Goshenhoppen United Church of Christ, East Greenville. 

Mack was president of the Eastern Pennsylvania Association of Retired School Superintendents in 1978. 

In 1975, he received special recognition from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for chairing committees that evaluated and accredited high schools in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. He was named a Registered School Business Administrator by the American Association of School Business Officials in 1974. 

Mack also served on the People to People Committee arranging exchanges of Bucks County and foreign students, personally leading student tours to Europe. 

He was a scoutmaster and council staff member for the Boy Scouts of America, Valley Forge and Bucks County Councils; a member of the latter's executive board, and district chairman of the Tohpendel District, Upper Bucks County, in 1957. He directed Camp Delmount in Green Lane from 1934-39 and Camp Ockanickon, Point Pleasant, Bucks County, from 1942-45, receiving the Vigil Honor of the Order of the Arrow. He also received the Boy Scout Statuette and Silver Beaver Awards. 

Mack was chairman of the schools division of United Way of Bucks County in 1959 and general campaign chairman in 1960. 

In 1973, we was the County Campaign Chairman for the Bucks County Chapter of the American Red Cross. 

He was a past member of the Quakertown Community Hospital board of directors and an organizer and charter president of the Springfield Township Lions Club in 1946. 

He was a 32nd degree Mason with Perkiomen Lodge 595, F&AM. 

Survivors: Wife; son, M. George of Farmington, Conn.; daughter, Marjorie S., wife of Dr. Richard E. Pearson of Bricktown, N.J.; step-son, Harry G. Roth of Rushland, Bucks County, and four grandchildren. 

Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday in the church. Call 7-8:30 p.m. Monday, Heintzelman Funeral Home, 326 Main St., Hellertown, and 10:30-11:00 a.m. Tuesday at church.