A rededication ceremony at the middle-high school track and field will rename the facilities after student-athlete Myles McCarron and former Athletic Director Richard Mulligan on Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. at the entrance to the track and field. Two bronze plaques honoring McCarron and Mulligan will be placed during the ceremony.
"There is no better example of what you're looking for than naming these facilities for these two individuals," member Carl Archambault said when the committee unanimously approved the name change in June.
The track will be named after Mulligan, a Lunenburg High School graduate who served as athletic director for more than 20 years. He also taught at the school and coached basketball, track, and cross country.
Mulligan was recognized as the athletic director of the year in 1983 and was inducted to the Mass State Track Association Hall of Fame.
The field will be named for McCarron, who played on the school's soccer team and would have graduated with the Class of 2003. He died in 2002 as a passenger in a speeding car.
His family and Sandy Laserte of the Lunenburg Track and Athletic Fields Association created the Miles for Myles 5K run, walk, and ride fundraiser in his honor.
Proceeds from the race helped build and manage the school's rubber track and artificial turf field.
The bench has the race's logo, which is a soccer player with a number 10 jersey and a heart. Enclosed in a heart is a teaching message of the race: "No need to speed."
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Richard F. Mulligan
Mr. Mulligan lived in Lunenburg all of his life. He graduated from Lunenburg High School in 1946 and received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from Fitchburg State College. He was a veteran of the Korean War, serving in the U.S. Army.
Mr. Mulligan was a teacher at Lunenburg High School for many years before his retirement in 1990. He also served as Athletic Director at Lunenburg High School for over twenty years. During his career at the school, he coached basketball, track, and cross country. He served on the Tournament Committee for the Clark Tournament at Clark University in Worcester for several years.