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Hugh Gabbard competed in three sports at Eastern, lettering one season in basketball, three years in baseball and four years in track. While a member of coach Charles “Turkey” Hughes baseball team, the Maroons’ squad won one outright Ohio Valley Conference championship and tied for another.
Following his collegiate days, he was active in slow-pitch softball, both church and industrial teams, and won one league batting championship with .745 average.
Following his graduation from Eastern in 1959, he was a social studies and physical education instructor and baseball coach at three high schools – Finneytown High School (Ohio), 1960-61, Richmond Madison High School, 1962-64 and Fern Creek High School in Louisville, 1965-72. His 1965 Fern Creek High School baseball team was a runner-up in the State Tournament.
He received both his master’s degree in 1969 and his Rank 1 teaching certificate in 1973 at Eastern Kentucky.
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