Eugene Pare

Pare was born in Lynn, Massachusetts.^[1] He ran track at Lynn English High School and was captain of the Tufts University cross country team.^[2][3] He received a bachelor of science in civil engineering from Tufts in 1937 and a master of education degree from the same institution the following year.^[4] He earned postgraduate degrees from Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1]

From 1938 to 1941, Pare taught at Wayland High School in Wayland, Massachusetts, where he was also the head basketball coach and assistant baseball and football coach. In 1941, he became an instructor of drawing at Northeastern. In 1945, he was named head coach of the school's baseball team.^[4] He led the team to a 3–6 record.^[5] He was also put in charge of the men's basketball team. The Huskies went 4–13 in his only season as head coach.^[6]

In 1946, Pare left Northeastern for a teaching position at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1956, he accepted a professorship in mechanical engineering at Washington State University. He retired in 1985 and resided in Marina del Rey, California until 1999, when he and his wife returned to Pullman, Washington. He died on May 26, 2000.^[1]