2017-Feb-18
http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2017/7/timlearysfp_2017_02_17_q.html
Lasting legacy for Leary: Prep coach honored at last home game
By Laura Amato
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Tim Leary didn’t always want to be a teacher. He never really planned on being a coach either. More than 40 years after he became both, Leary can’t quite imagine anything else.
The longtime St. Francis Prep boys’ basketball coach, retiring after 43 years on the sidelines, was honored at the Terriers’ final home game of the season Sunday afternoon as former players and students packed the gym to celebrate his unexpected and incredibly successful career.
“I was going to be a cop like everybody else in my family. I had taken the test and I was waiting to get on the job out of school,” Leary said. “I just got married out of college and I needed a job, so while I was waiting I took to teaching. And I was like ‘this is great.’ I’ll be on the beach during the summer and I never really looked back after that.”
Leary – a 1963 Prep grad – was a star on the hardwood before he started pacing the sidelines. He played both basketball and baseball for the Terriers and went on to compete at Manhattan College, leading the Jaspers to two NIT appearances.
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Leary, Tim [MC????]
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Dear John,
I believe that Tim is a member of the Class of 1967
Mike
McEneney, Mike (MC1953)
[JR: Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated.]
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