BREVARD’S AWARD-WINNING SENIOR NEWSPAPER
Volume 18 Number 1
OF FLORIDA
June 2014
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Son of NFL Hall of Famer privileged to be FAA’s first civilian dean
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FEATURES
By Mike Gaffey David Graham, dean of students at Florida Air Academy in Melbourne, proudly wears a ring his father gave him. The ring is no ordinary ring. It’s an NFL Hall of Fame ring. And Graham’s father was no ordinary dad. He was legendary Cleveland Browns quarterback Otto Graham, who won seven championships and competed for three more during a spectacular 10-year pro football career. “The year before he passed away, he started the beginnings of Alzheimer’s, and he sat down with me and asked me if I would wear the ring in his honor,” Graham said of his father, who died in 2003 at age 82. “And I cried like I was 2 years old. I said it would be an honor to do it.” Growing up as the son of a football icon instilled Graham with a passion for athletics, coaching and teaching that’s lasted 40 years so far. He’s been a dean at several boarding schools and has been a head coach of five different sports. Graham and his wife, Mary, came to Florida Air, a private, co-ed college prep boarding school for grades six through 12 in May 2013 after three years at Milton Hershey School, a private boarding school in Hershey, Pa. They settled in Pennsylvania after having moved back to the U.S. mainland from a school in Hawaii in order to be closer to their four grown children and their grandkids. “We enjoy FAA thoroughly,” said Graham, who lives on
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SENIOR LIFE Mike Gaffey
David Graham’s father, Otto Graham, asked him to wear his Hall of Fame ring.
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