LILLE NEWS — On its website, the James F. Brobin Legacy Foundation displays one of Jim Brobin’s treasured quotes: “There is justice in the world. The University of Minnesota tore down a football stadium to build a swimming pool.”
A longtime biology teacher and swimming coach at Mounds View High School, Brobin ’57 got his name displayed in that same university aquatics center when he was inducted into the hall of fame for Minnesota swimming coaches in 1999.
Having manned the school’s pool and biology classroom for 34 years, Brobin’s larger than life personality and notoriously tough workouts made him a lasting part of MVHS history. After his death in 2017 at the age of 82, former students and family members gathered to create a philanthropic foundation in his honor.
The non-profit, which officially launched in December 2018, just awarded its first scholarship to a student at St. Cloud State University, Brobin’s alma mater.
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