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MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK, RESIDENT RICHARD GARNER INDUCTED INTO MANHATTAN COLLEGE’S ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Richard Garner ’72, a resident of Mount Vernon, New York, and Manhattan College alumnus, has been inducted into the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame. The 26th annual event, sponsored by the Manhattan College Alumni Society, was held Dec. 4, 2004, in Smith Auditorium at the college campus.

Garner, who was drafted to the New York Knicks and the Indiana pacers his senior year, won several awards and achieved much success throughout his athletic career as a Manhattan Jasper. During his junior year on the men’s basketball team, Garner broke the College’s assist record with 121 for the season. Garner, who is currently assistant principal of Mount Vernon Middle School, won Honorable Mention All-American during his career as a Jasper, which included more than 1,000 points and a field goal percentage of more than 50 percent. He was the first Jasper to be awarded the prestigious Haggerty Award for the Outstanding Player in the Metro Area.

After graduation in 1972, Garner served as the assistant coach for the men’s basketball team until 1978. He later returned to his hometown of Mount Vernon where he taught and served as assistant basketball coach at Mount Vernon High School and co-founded the Mount Vernon Summer Basketball League and served as administrator there for a decade.

Manhattan College was founded in 1853 upon the Lasallian heritage of excellence in teaching, inspired by St. John Baptist de La Salle. Located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science.  For more information about the College, visit www.manhattan.edu.

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