Baruch Bricklin, 84; owned printing firm

Baruch Bricklin, 84, former owner of Bricklin Graphics in Philadelphia, died of pneumonia Tuesday at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Boston. He lived in West Mount Airy from 1956 until moving to Massachusetts in 2002.

Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Bricklin graduated in June 1942 in the 178th class at Central High School, where he was president of the debating society.

In 1944, Mr. Bricklin graduated from Gratz College - Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia.

Mr. Bricklin's son Daniel said that during World War II the Army assigned Mr. Bricklin to Stanford University, where he took engineering classes for which the University of Pennsylvania credited him when he pursued a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Penn, which he received in 1947.

In 1952, Mr. Bricklin was elected president of the Gratz Alumni Association. He was reelected in 1958.

Daniel Bricklin said that in 1952 his father was also awarded a bachelor's degree in Hebrew literature by Gratz College.

A member of the Germantown Jewish Centre, Mr. Bricklin was vice president of the Solomon Schechter Day School, predecessor of the Perelman Jewish Day School.

Mr. Bricklin's father, Simon, had founded the Center City printing firm Bricklin Press, and Mr. Bricklin ran it until it was sold in 1978, his son said.

From then until 1990, his son said, Mr. Bricklin ran Bricklin Graphics, which, besides printing brochures and such items, specialized in documents printed in Hebrew typeface.

In addition to his son, Mr. Bricklin is survived by his wife, Ruth; son Jonathan; daughter Sarah Greenblatt; three sisters; and six grandchildren.

The funeral was held Wednesday at the chapel of Brezniak-Rodman Funeral Directors, Newton, Mass.