Allen graduated from North Quincy, MA, High School and Eastern Nazarene College where he received a Bachelor of Theology degree, and later a Master of Education degree from Keene State College.
He was general secretary of the Middleboro, MA, YMCA and part-time pastor of the Scotland Trinitarian Congregational Church in Bridgewater. After moving to Bellows Falls, VT, Allen was Executive Director of the Fall Mountain YMCA, and the Bellows Falls Area Senior Center. He taught 7th and 8th grade science at the Bellows Falls Middle School, where he also coached winning boys' basketball teams.
During those same years, Allen was the part-time director of the Rockingham Recreation Department and he re-opened the Bellows Falls Opera House. He was also an elected Justice of the Peace for many years. Allen received several awards and honors, such as "Teacher of the Year" in 1982, "Citizen of the Year" in 1989, and was one of the very few non-veterans to receive the Middleboro American Legion's award for "Meritorious Service to God and Country".
(From obituary in the Brattleboro Reformer, Dec. 7, 2011)
He was general secretary of the Middleboro, MA, YMCA and part-time pastor of the Scotland Trinitarian Congregational Church in Bridgewater. After moving to Bellows Falls, VT, Allen was Executive Director of the Fall Mountain YMCA, and the Bellows Falls Area Senior Center. He taught 7th and 8th grade science at the Bellows Falls Middle School, where he also coached winning boys' basketball teams.
During those same years, Allen was the part-time director of the Rockingham Recreation Department and he re-opened the Bellows Falls Opera House. He was also an elected Justice of the Peace for many years. Allen received several awards and honors, such as "Teacher of the Year" in 1982, "Citizen of the Year" in 1989, and was one of the very few non-veterans to receive the Middleboro American Legion's award for "Meritorious Service to God and Country".
(From obituary in the Brattleboro Reformer, Dec. 7, 2011)
Allen graduated from North Quincy, MA, High School and Eastern Nazarene College where he received a Bachelor of Theology degree, and later a Master of Education degree from Keene State College.
He was general secretary of the Middleboro, MA, YMCA and part-time pastor of the Scotland Trinitarian Congregational Church in Bridgewater. After moving to Bellows Falls, VT, Allen was Executive Director of the Fall Mountain YMCA, and the Bellows Falls Area Senior Center. He taught 7th and 8th grade science at the Bellows Falls Middle School, where he also coached winning boys' basketball teams.
During those same years, Allen was the part-time director of the Rockingham Recreation Department and he re-opened the Bellows Falls Opera House. He was also an elected Justice of the Peace for many years. Allen received several awards and honors, such as "Teacher of the Year" in 1982, "Citizen of the Year" in 1989, and was one of the very few non-veterans to receive the Middleboro American Legion's award for "Meritorious Service to God and Country".
(From obituary in the Brattleboro Reformer, Dec. 7, 2011)
He was general secretary of the Middleboro, MA, YMCA and part-time pastor of the Scotland Trinitarian Congregational Church in Bridgewater. After moving to Bellows Falls, VT, Allen was Executive Director of the Fall Mountain YMCA, and the Bellows Falls Area Senior Center. He taught 7th and 8th grade science at the Bellows Falls Middle School, where he also coached winning boys' basketball teams.
During those same years, Allen was the part-time director of the Rockingham Recreation Department and he re-opened the Bellows Falls Opera House. He was also an elected Justice of the Peace for many years. Allen received several awards and honors, such as "Teacher of the Year" in 1982, "Citizen of the Year" in 1989, and was one of the very few non-veterans to receive the Middleboro American Legion's award for "Meritorious Service to God and Country".
(From obituary in the Brattleboro Reformer, Dec. 7, 2011)
