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RETIREE executive board members

We are looking forward to engaging our retired CSO members in more of the upcoming activities of the union.  Your expertise and experience will surely be an asset to the overall growth of the union.  For further information on the role you can play contact one of the below Retiree Executive Board Members:

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Patricia Briscoe
pbbdciaa@yahoo.com

                                              

Dr. Briscoe retired from the DC Public School System in September of 2018 after 43 years of service.  She worked as a teacher at Anacostia, Spingarn and Eastern Senior High Schools.  For 22 years, she worked in the Department of Athletics as a Coordinator and Assistant Director of Athletics. In 2013 she accepted the responsibility of a teacher and Athletic Director at Eastern Senior High School.  In 2016 she transitioned into the full time Athletic Director position until her retirement in 2018.  Although Dr. Briscoe has been a member since 1989, this is her first opportunity to serve the Council.  

Gwendolyn Brown
Bronxgal95@gmail.com

                                               

Gwendolyn Brown, a retiree and former Special Education Supervisor with DCPS. In this role, Gwen looked after assisting with identifying the least restrictive educational setting for special education students providing all aspects of school visitations, including observing, providing recommendations and professional development to teachers and para-educators. Gwen is no stranger to special education, having spent 36 years as a special education teacher and a teacher mentor in DCPS and two years a public charter school where she advocated for teachers and students. Gwen also spent more than 5 years as an adjunct professor at Trinity University

Allen Chin
aec10@yahoo.com
 

Raised in Washington, DC, Allen E. Chin is a product of the D.C. Public School System.  He attended Maury Elementary School, Eliot and Kramer Jr. High Schools and graduated from Anacostia Senior High School.  He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from The George Washington University.

 

Becoming the youngest athletic director in the DC Public School System in 1972, he joined Anacostia Sr. High School as head swimming, golf and tennis coach, as well as assistant football coach.  While teaching and coaching, he completed graduate degrees in secondary administration from The George Washington University.

 

In 1987, Dr. Chin was selected to replace Otto T. Jordan as the Supervising Director of Athletics.  He remained until the summer of 1988 and returned to Anacostia Sr. High in the fall of 1988.  In 1989, he became again the athletic director at Anacostia Sr. High.

 

In the fall of 1991, he was selected to succeed Sam Jones (legendary Boston Celtic player) as the Director of Athletics.  This was Dr. Chin’s second tenure as Director of Athletics for the DC Public School System.  During this tenure, he advocated the concept of the District of Columbia Interscholastic Athletic Association (DCIAA) as a successor to the DC Inter-High League.  This concept of the DCIAA reflects the total athletic program of the DC Public Schools for the following levels: elementary, middle and senior high schools.

 

During his tenure, the girls’ athletic program added the following sports: junior varsity basketball, developmental golf, and varsity soccer.   The following changes were made in the boys’ athletic program: revitalized and upgraded  junior varsity football, revised the varsity football playoff structure, revised the varsity and junior varsity basketball programs, implementing developmental golf and expanding the crew program.

 

Dr. Chin is a Certified Athletic Administrator (CAA), a lifetime member of the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) and has served on multiple National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) and NIAAA committees.  He has served on the following NFHS committees: AD Advisory, Citizenship, Equity, Football Rules, Hall of Fame Screening, and Soccer Rules.  He served as a member of the NIAAA Credentials Committee.  In addition, he served as the Section 2 representative on the NFHS Board of Directors from 2005-2008.

 

On February 29, 2008, Dr. Chin retired his position as the Director of Athletics for D.C. Public Schools.  At the end of the NFHS Summer Meeting in Washington, DC, he retired as Executive Director of the DCIAA in July, 2008.  Currently, he is the National Sales Executive for Team IP Sports which serves sixteen (16) NFHS state associations and as a sales consultant for SMI Awards. In 2019, he joined the Amateur Athletic Network as the National Sales Consultant.

 

In May, 2017, Dr. Chin was inducted as a member of the inaugural District of Columbia State Athletic Association (DCSAA) Hall of Fame.  In November, 2017, he was selected and honored by the DMV-Athletes in Action, Inc. as a member of the 2017 class of “Legends Award.”

 

Dr. Chin is the proud father of two children, Allen, Jr. and Denise and grandfather of one grandson, Noah and one granddaughter, Emilia.

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