Alan Shawn Feinstein, who urged thousands of students to do good deeds and rewarded them for doing so and whose name is on so many schools throughout the state, died Saturday at the age of 93. He lived in a modest home in the Edgewood section of Cranston.
A Feinstein visit to a school was a big event. The kids knew him and when he arrived in a school auditorium he was greeted with excited cheers.
He frequently wore a gold jacket to such gatherings where he talked about the impact of good deeds and how one person can change things for the better. Feinstein lived by what he preached, donating millions of dollars through the foundation he established to Alan Shawn Feinstein schools and scholars as well as to fighting world hunger.
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