Bio

Bob Harrington is being enshrined following more than 50 years of support of UW-Oshkosh athletics.

Harrington was a UW-Oshkosh Titan Booster Club member from 1970-2011 and has served the university’s athletics program through committee involvement and participation in numerous fundraising activities.

Harrington held the title of president of the Titan Booster Club and been a member of the UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame committee since 1980. He was also on UW-Oshkosh’s search and screen committee for the head football coach position in 2007.

Harrington, an Oshkosh High School alumnus, is a regular attendee at UW-Oshkosh home sporting events and has watched the Titans in person from a variety of venues, including baseball from Menominee Park, basketball from Merrill School and football from the New York Avenue Athletics Facility.

Harrington has witnessed several great moments in the history of the UW-Oshkosh athletics program. Among them he says is the women’s basketball team’s 66-50 victory over the University
of Mount Union (Ohio) in the final of the 1996 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Championship held in Kolf Sports Center. The Titans played the game before a tournament-record 4,001 fans and concluded a perfect 31-0 season with the win.

Harrington has been active in the Oshkosh community, serving numerous organizations as chairman, commissioner and president. Harrington was president of Chamco, Inc.; Kiwanis Club of Oshkosh; Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce; and Oshkosh Community Players in addition to a chairmanship of the Oshkosh chapter of the American Red Cross and district commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America’s Twin Lakes Council.

Harrington earned a bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology (Pa.) in 1959.

An Oshkosh resident, Harrington currently works in sales for EnvisionInk Printing Solutions in Neenah. He previously served as president of Globe Printing Company in Oshkosh from 1959-95 and worked in sales for Rogers Publishing from 1995-2011.

Harrington and wife, Bev, are the parents of sons Greg and Jeff.