Retirement Celebration Honors Coach Ron Ream
A retirement celebration honoring coach Ron Ream was held in Benjamin Hall on May 19. Ream, the longest tenured coach in Palm Beach County, was celebrated for his 43 years as a football coach and math teacher at Benjamin.
Ream served as Benjamin’s athletic director for 30 years and head coach for 37. He was one of six coaches inducted in the Florida Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2014 and was The Palm Beach Post’s Small School’s Coach of the Year in 2005 and Coach of the Year in 1992.
Former teachers, players and friends offered remembrances of their time with Ream that were both poignant and comical. Former math teacher Phyllis Wissner said Ream touched so many lives during his 40 year tenure at Benjamin.
Athletic Director Ryan Smith ‘93 said outside of Marshall and Nancy Benjamin and Jack and Barbara Nicklaus, no one has had a greater impact on Benjamin than Ron Ream.
“Coach Ream has positively influenced the lives of thousands of Benjamin alumni. His record as a football coach speaks for itself, but I think most significantly is the impact he has had on all of us alumni spread throughout the country. I have met many coaches during my career, but there is only one Ron Ream. He has the unique ability to inspire and motivate his student-athletes like no one else I have ever seen. Coach Ream will be deeply missed leading our football program,” said Smith.
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