Sidney Hyman Zevin, 86, who had a long career as a Washington educator and was business manager at Albert Einstein High
School in Kensington from 1974 until retiring in 1986, died Feb. 14 at a nursing home in Chelsea, Mass. He had Alzheimer's
disease.
Early in his career, Mr. Zevin taught social studies and English at Taft Junior High School in Washington. From 1954 to 1961, he
was assistant principal at Paul Junior High School in Washington.
He was principal at Gordon Junior High School in Washington for a year and then principal at Paul from 1962 to 1966.
He then spent four years as principal at Western High School in the District -- he left amid much-publicized protests by black
students demanding a black principal -- and was assistant to the D.C. schools superintendent in the early 1970s.
Before moving to Chelsea from Silver Spring in 2002, he did volunteer work at Einstein in the Interages program, which brings
older adults and youths together for activities such as tutoring and mentoring.
He was a native Washingtonian and a 1935 graduate of Roosevelt High School. He was a graduate of Wilson Teachers
College and received a master's degree in history from the University of Michigan.
He served in the Army Air Forces in China and India during World War II. He was a former principal at the religious school of
Temple Emanuel synagogue in Kensington.
His honors included an Agnes Meyer Foundation Fellowship.
Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Lena Diamond Zevin of Chelsea; and a son, Barry Zevin of Cambridge, Mass.