Dr. Harold (Hal) W. Sobel, 90, of Great Neck, NY, died peacefully at home on December 3rd of natural causes. Dr. Sobel graduated from the University of Rochester in 1954, earned a Master’s Degree from C.C.N.Y. in 1959 and a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia in 1972. He taught for one year in the NYC public schools, for nine years at New Lincoln, a private progressive school in Manhattan, and 46 years as a professor of education at Queens College, C.U.N.Y.

In addition to a myriad of scholarly articles, Dr. Sobel co-authored with longtime friend and colleague Dr. Arthur Salz a collection of essays – The Radical Papers: Readings in Education – published by Harper and Row in 1972. He also published three recent books of his informative and insightful writings on the social and political landscape of the past 50 years.

Hal was an entertaining and witty public speaker, a world traveler, a drummer, a beloved father, grandfather, cousin and devoted friend. He also loved his New York Mets and his sons’ Boston Red Sox.

Hal married Micki Sobel in 1961, and they had two sons, David & Daniel. He married Elizabeth Ritter in 1984 and had a son, Corey. Hal is survived by his ex-wife Elizabeth Ritter, sons David, Daniel, and Corey, daughter-in-law Carolyn, and grandchildren Noah and Emily.