Cohen to Retire as Athletic Director, Will Continue Coaching

Harvey Cohen, the athletic director and ice hockey coach at Chatham High School, will retire.

Cohen's retirement appears as the first order of personnel business on the agenda for the Board of Education's Monday meeting.

Cohen began at Chatham Township High School in 1973, and became the athletic director when the township and borough school districts merged in 1988.

As the high school's hockey coach, Cohen realized his dream of seeing Chatham win the state title when the against Middletown South on March 14.

A separate resolution on the agenda, if passed, would approve Cohen to continue as the hockey coach for the 2011-12 academic year.

Other Business

The board will also vote on a finance resolution which would allow up to $3,000 to go toward a community planning consultant, who would, according to the agenda, "provide planning service for the Cougar Field Lights Project."

Morris County Superior Court Judge W. Hunt Dumont to install lights on Cougar Field for approval by the three municipalities—Chatham Township, Chatham Borough and Madison—that own land on part of the field.

Dumont stopped short of saying that the lights could not be installed.

Also on the agenda is the renewal of the School District of the Chatham's lease from Chatham Township for office space within the Chatham Township Municipal Building.