NJSIAA announces Gallagher/Bollinger Hall of Fame class for 2021
NJSIAA announces Gallagher/Bollinger Hall of Fame class for 2021
All inductees were selected by a statewide committee of journalists and both active and retired school administrators.
“What always amazes me about our annual Hall of Fame process is that there never seems to be a shortage of remarkable individuals who either played or contributed to scholastic athletics in New Jersey,” Jack DuBois, NJSIAA assistant director, who chairs the selection committee, said in a prepared statement. “This year’s group is no exception, and it speaks to the long, proud history of high school sports in our state.”
Celebrating A Century of NCAA Track & Field Championships
Walton Started It All In The 800
Fast times were not likely in the women’s 800-meter final at the 1982 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Provo, Utah.
Cold, driving rain met the finalists for the inaugural championship race that featured two stars coming back from Friday victories – Oregon’s Leann Warren, who had won the 1500 meters, and Delisa Walton, who had anchored Tennessee’s collegiate record-setting 4×400 relay team with a 51.0 split.
Walton normally raced from the front, but the conditions forced her to tuck in behind others in an effort to seek shelter from the wind, and Warren followed suit. After a first lap of 61.9 by Tennessee’s Joetta Clark, Walton and Warren followed closely on the backstretch of the second lap.
By KAREN CHAMBERS
Longtime South Orange resident Karen Chambers
Longtime South Orange resident Karen Chambers
Credits: courtesy of Karen Chambers
By KAREN CHAMBERS
February 27, 2021 at 7:46 PM
The year was 1981. Ronald Reagan was in office. The country was facing a recession. MTV was bursting onto the scene with a hot new visual music medium and a group called the Sugar Hill Gang was introducing the world to hip hop with their smash hit, “Rapper’s Delight.”
For my family, it was the year my parents made one of the biggest sacrifices and best decisions of their lives. My mom, an insurance auditor and my dad, an entrepreneur both immigrants from Jamaica, changed the trajectory of our family’s life with a five-mile move within New Jersey to South Orange.
Portrayed by Morgan Freeman, he gained national celebrity in the 1980s with his efforts to impose order on his inner-city high school and became a lightning rod in an enduring debate over education in America.
Joe Clark, New Jersey principal who inspired ‘Lean on Me,’ dies at 83 Emily Langer Joe Clark, the bullhorn-bearing New Jersey principal who gained national celebrity in the 1980s with his efforts to impose order on his inner-city high school, a story that inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me” and made him a lightning rod in an enduring debate over education in America, died Dec. 29 at his home in Newberry, Fla. He was 83, according to his daughter Hazel Clark, who said that other reports of his age as 82 were in error. She confirmed his death but did not cite a cause.