Thursday, July 2, 4pm – 9pm Andrew Torregrossa & Sons Funeral Home 2265 Flatbush Ave, (Between Ave. R and Fillmore) Brooklyn, New York 11234.

Friday, July 3, 9:30am Funeral Service atSaint Fortunada Roman Catholic Church 2609 Linden Blvd & Crescent St.Brooklyn, New York 11208  Interment Friday, July 3St. John’s Cemetery 8001 Metropolitan Ave. Flushing, Queens, New York 11379.  Joachim Kervyn Mark was born to Dr. and Mrs. Michael Z. Mark of Grenville, St. Andrew’s, Grenada W .I. on August 16, 1933. He received his elementary education at the Birch Grove Government School. On April 12, 1945, the St. Andrew’s Anglican Secondary School was opened. Mr. Mark was among the 43 students who answered the opening bell. From 1948, at age 14 years, and for 10 years thereafter, Joachim was Scoutmaster of the First Birch Grove Troop. In 1949, he transferred to the St. Andrew’s Teacher-Training Center where he earned, in consecutive order, the Cambridge University Junior Certificate, the Cambridge University School Certificate, and the Grenada Education Department’s Second Class Teacher’s Certificate. In 1954, he received the First Class Teacher’s Certificate. Mr. Mark served as an Assistant Principal at the St. Patrick’s and Birch Grove Roman Catholic Schools, He was also a military

drill instructor in the Grenada Volunteer Constabulary (GVC), a branch of the Royal Grenada Police Force, served in the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, and as Commanding Officer of the Birch Grove Boys’ Brigade.

Mr. Mark then migrated to the United States and entered Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1958, and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. Throughout his university career, he was on the Dean’s Honor Roll. In 1962, Mr. Mark received the Junior faculty Award, and was nominated to the National Engineering Honor Society – TAU BETA PI, the first Grenadian to be thus honored, for being among the first one-fifth of the engineering students in the United States. He was also awarded a Certificate of Merit from the Civil Engineering Student’s Chapter, the American Society of Engineers. In 1963 Mr. Mark graduated at the top the class, was named “The Graduating Senior”, and given the Graduating Senior Award, He pursued graduate study at City College, New York.

After graduating from Howard University, Mr. Mark worked for Andrews and Clarke Engineering Consultants, New York, and was assigned to the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge From 1964 and up until his retirement in December, 1998, he was a civil engineer with the New York City Department of Highways.

Promoted to Resent Engineer and then to Project Engineer, Mr. Mark directed and supervised the capital improvement of miles of streets in the borough of Brooklyn, and resurfaced an additional 460 miles. His work performance earned him seven letters of recommendation for “Merit Salary Increases.” In 1988, Dr. Michael F., Horodniceanu, Second Deputy Commission, sent Mr. Mark a congratulatory letter. In June, 1998, Mr. Mark was given New York City Employee Recognition Award.

Despite his busy schedule, Mr. Mark participates in a variety of cultural, social and political activities. He has held membership in the United Grenadians of New York, the Committee for a Better Grenada, the Grenada Ex-Police Association of New York, Inc., the Grenadian-American Ex-Students’ Association, Inc., the Grenada

Carriacou Petit Martinique Nurses Association of America, the Birch Grove – New York Community Council and the Birch Grove Prayer Group, and headed the Grenada Independence Celebrations Committee from 1993 through 1995.

Mr. Mark has arranged for the entry of 422 Grenadians into the United States. Several of the entrants were given partial tuition scholarships, one, a full scholarship, and another was sponsored as a sleep-in domestic servant, for nine (9) years. Mr. Mark was a volunteer instructor of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at Medgar Evers College, NY. He volunteered as an instructor on prostate and testicular cancer for the American Cancer Society. He has also been a journalist, radio commentator and public lecturer.

Mr. Mark has received Letters of Appreciation and Community Service Awards from several organizations, and the 1986 Professional Award from the Bronx Club, The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc.

Mr. Mark has been married for thirty-nine years to Bernice Joseph of River Sallee, Grenada, a registered professional nurse, who, up until her retirement in December 1998, served as Director of Peri-operative Services at Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn. The couple’s son Kervyn is a Supervising Public Health Inspector with the New York City Department of Health. Their daughter Robin works as a Cash Analyst for Barnes and Noble, Inc., New York.

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