Obituary: John Gould, Long time I.P. Teacher

Island Park lost a beloved teacher with the death of John Gould on Dec. 19.

Gould was born in Florida in 1935.

He began teaching in Island Park in 1966, after serving as a substitute teacher while working as an emergency room technologist at South Nassau Communities Hospital for a few years.

He retired in 1993, having served the district as a teacher and coach of middle school boys’ soccer and basketball and girls’ soccer and as the administrator in charge of the physical education and sports programs at both Francis X. Hegarty and Lincoln Orens Middle Schools.

Along the way, Gould also served as the president of the Island Park Teachers Association, the Nassau County Athletic Ethics Committee and a number of statewide committees that addressed sports and physical education.

He was a long time Kiwanian, and served as President of the Island Park club. He was a member of the golf committee of the Cleary School for the Deaf, a member of the Nassau County Athletics Association through BOCES, the retirement representative for the Island Park Faculty Association for 21 years, and he served as vice president and president of his condo board since 1985.

In 2013 the district named the gymnasium in the Hegarty School for him.

His wife Barbara, two sisters Vivian Patricia Lilly of West Hempstead and Gloria Christine Loris of South Carolina, and a brother, Grover Gould of Rockville Centre, two children, John and Lisa, both of Ithaca, N.Y. and numerous nieces and nephews, survive him.

In lieu of flowers Island Park Faculty Association Scholarship Fund, 101 Radcliffe Rd., Island Park, NY 11558