Howard Maniloff

CHAPEL HILL- Mr. Howard Maniloff, 74, died at the DuBose Health Center at The Cedars of Chapel Hill, NC, on February 8, 2017. Born in Baltimore on June 30, 1943, he was the son of Boris and Edith Maniloff. Howard was educated in the Baltimore Public Schools, attending City College High School in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, and the Journalism School and Teachers’ College of Columbia University.
After joining Vista in 1965, he was drafted and served in Vietnam as a journalist. He was a newspaper reporter for the Charlotte Observer from 1969 – 1973. He then enjoyed a long and varied career as a public school teacher, principal, and superintendent. He was an Associate Professor of Leadership at the UNC-CH School of Education when he was disabled by a stroke in 1993. He was proud of his work with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, where he authored the Basic Education Plan outlining the state’s educational obligation to its children, and his twenty-year tenure teaching seventh grade Sunday School in Raleigh and Durham temples.
Howard Maniloff treasured life and loved the Baltimore Orioles, American history, Judaism, the Democratic Party, his son Peter and daughter-in-law Anne, and Alice, his wife of 44 years.
If you would like, please make a donation to your local public library in his memory.
A graveside service will be held at the Judea Reform Cemetery (2560 Jones Ferry Rd) at 1:00 on Friday, February 10. The family will be at 201 Douglas Road, Chapel Hill.