Daily News | Barton A. Fields, former prominent Pa. state official, dies at 91
Earlier in his career, at the Department of Education, Mr. Fields traveled to the South to recruit Black college graduates to work as teachers in the Harrisburg schools.Mr. Field’s son, Barton Anthony Fields, said of his father: ”At an early age, we were held accountable for our actions. He always stressed that it was not always about doing the convenient thing, but doing the right thing.”
Their parents sent Barton and his younger brother, Carl, to Barbados for elementary school because as a teacher, their mother saidMr. Fields graduated from South Philadelphia High School for Boys in 1948. He worked before starting at Pennsylvania State University in State College, and continued to work to put himself through college. He graduated with a bachelor’s in political science in 1954.
He went on to hold other government positions at the Public Utility Commission, the Auditor General’s Office, and the Department of Education.
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