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- Team:
- Administrator and Coach
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- Induction Year:
- 2000
Bio
MMA President Rear Admiral Harrington had been educated at St. John’s Prep in Danvers, graduating in 1941 as valedictorian, and was considered the best athlete in his class. After finishing Holy Cross College in 1944, Lee joined the Navy during World War II and saw combat in the South Pacific aboard the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Pittsburgh, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Commander in 1960. Following this, he was cited with the Meritorious Achievement Award by Admiral J. William Middendorf II, Secretary of the Navy at the time.
Rear Admiral Harrington served as President of the Academy from 1972 to 1980 and was responsible for switching the Academy from a three-year institution to a four-year accredited institution. Donald Flynn, a former student of Harrington’s at Mass. Maritime, said that he was a fine math teacher and an excellent baseball coach. He was very popular with his students. He died of cancer prematurely in July 1980 at age fifty-five.