Our school is almost 100 years old and over the years many fine men and women have been part of its history. This bench overlooking the football field is dedicated to the memory of a very special couple, representing all the best in school tradition and principle. Here is a tribute I found on our school website, written in 2005:
"Petey, of course, is Petey Jacobs, the patron saint of Collegiate athletics who directed the boys’ program from its birth in 1960 until he retired in 1981 and whose spirit remains very much with us today.
A true gentleman and a highly successful coach of baseball and basketball, he emphasized fair play and loyalty and never saw a contradiction between competitive spirit and sportsmanship. Above all, he felt that the real value of athletics was the lessons young people could learn and apply to their lives outside the arena, and he constantly impressed upon his young protégés as much by example as in words their sacred responsibility to teach those lessons quietly, humbly, and without fanfare."
His wife Scotty was in all ways his partner.
It should be noted that Collegiate was originally a school for girls, established in 1915. It wasn't until 1960 that boys were included in the enrollment..
