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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