Jimmy Collins was an All-Met, All-East, All-American basketball player at St. John’s, where he averaged double-digits – when college basketball scores were in the 20s and 30s – and led the country in scoring.
Collins, the father of after-school sports and recreation programs on Staten Island, served as the borough’s Supervisor of Recreation from 1947 to 1964, and was a high school and college referee for 25 seasons.
Class of 2006