University of Rochester
Athletic Hall of Fame
Samuel Park Harman
'09
At Rochester:
- An outstanding basketball player as an undergraduate, considered one of the finest players in the nation
- Selected for the All-East Team in his senior year
- Newspaper clippings announcing the selection called him "…Small in stature and very light, he is a giant in basketball ability…"
- Selected by the New York basketball writers to the All-America team in 1910
- Captained the team in his final season and helped the squad attain a record of 17-2 which stood as the single-season victory record for 51 years
- He coached the following season (1910-11, 5-11 record)
Post-Graduate:
- Worked as a labor mediator in the 1930s with extensive travel on the East Coast
- One of the first employees of the Social Security Administration
- In 1937, he served as the regional representative of that administration in New York until he was transferred to the Bureau of Employment Security in Boston in 1945
- Served as President of the National Association of Retired Persons
- In later years, helped the elderly with their federal taxes
- Active with the Red Cross and the United Fund
- He passed away on June 12, 1974
