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Margate’s First Parks & Recreation Director, George Mudd, Dies
• George Mudd, respected humanitarian
Friday,
August 7, 2009
George Mudd, 75, Margate’s original Parks & Recreation Director, later promoted to Deputy City Manager, passed away peacefully on July 29, 2009 surrounded by his family at Boca Raton Hospital.
“He was a fantastic guy,” said Margate City Commissioner, David McLean. "He got me involved in the city when I was a kid. George was one of those guys that would do anything for you.”
Mudd was a committed public servant, working with seniors and kids in Margate and serving as Chairman of the Community School Advisory Board and Consultant for the Center for Community Education of Florida Atlantic University. He is credited with designing the Margate City Flag and was the inspiration behind the George Mudd Playground located behind Margate’s Leonard Charley Katz/Leonard Weisinger Community Center.
Mudd spearheaded more than $2.1 million in grants for Margate projects ranging from the building of the Margate Catharine Young library to weed control programs.
In a 1995 report, Mudd said his greatest accomplishment was persuading the Broward County School Board to start the first county adult community school at Margate Middle School in 1973.
"The schools were not being utilized as I thought they should be," Mudd told the Sun-sentinel. "A school is a school is a school. There is no reason why it can't be opened at night and have different classes for adults."
Administrative assistant to Mudd when he retired from the city in 1995, Janet Randolph, applauded Mudd's outstanding 'bedside manner'.
"I learned a lot from him," she said. "I can go in and talk with George , he just helps me tremendously. He's just that kind of guy. He helps, he's willing to listen when people come in. I've never seen him lose his cool; I don't know how he does it. I'm going to miss him," Randolph said in the report.
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