MAY 20 • 2021 | 33
quick hits
BY STEVE STEIN
Billy Slobin has Farmington
Hills Harrison High School
blood running through his
veins.
He played football at
Harrison and was the
football team’s volunteer
strength and conditioning
coach from 1986 until the
high school closed in 2019.
His two sons played
football for Harrison.
Slobin looks at the former
high school every day
he’s at work. His Supreme
Lending mortgage office
is across W. 12 Mile Road
from the ex-high school.
Slobin wasn’t happy
about the Farmington
School Board’s decision to
close Harrison because of
declining enrollment.
But Slobin is happy about
“The Hawk,” Harrison’s
reincarnation by the city
of Farmington Hills as a
massive 245,000-square-
foot multipurpose
community recreation
center with an adjoining
42-acre park.
Why is the place called
“The Hawk”? Harrison
sports teams were called
the Hawks. A virtual legacy
wall inside “The Hawk” will
keep alive memories of the
high school.
“They did a beautiful
job there. Nobody is more
eager to join the fitness club
and start exercising there,”
Slobin said. “I know some
ex-Harrison football players
and other friends of mine
are interested in joining,
too.”
Slobin said he and his son
Jake took a walk around
“The Hawk” property
last week and came away
impressed.
“I’ve been watching the
renovation from a distance.
I’m as happy about it as I
can get,” Billy Slobin said.
“At least the high school
wasn’t made into condos
and it didn’t become a
parking lot.”
For more information on
“The Hawk,” go to www.
thehawkfh.com.
Under John Herrington,
Harrison’s only football
coach, the Hawks won a
state-record 443 games and
13 state championships
starting in 1970.
Slobin and other
Harrison football coaches
went to North Farmington
High School, which also is
in the Farmington School
District, after Harrison
closed and are now working
in the North Farmington
football program.
Harrison Grad is Happy
About ‘The Hawk’
STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
STEVE SLOBIN
Billy Slobin’s allegiance to
Farmington Hills Harrison is
easy to see in his office, which is
across W. 12 Mile Road from the
former high school.
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