His passing is not only a loss for Saint Peter’s Prep, but also for Hudson County’s many athletes who have lost their most reliable chronicler.” “Very few graduates of Saint Peter’s have been as passionately proud of their Prep diploma as Jim was, and through both his infectious personality and his prolific sports writing career, he was both well-known and admired by fellow alumni of many generations,” Horan said. “As we all know, Jim ‘lived’ in the world of sports, and he was as enthusiastic about a local freshman team’s winning season as he was about a stunning state championship game at MetLife Stadium. That said, especially in Hudson County, he was both a pundit and an everyman, seemingly always on the scene and quickly churning out compelling copy. Peter’s Prep because his impact was felt for decades, far beyond his days at Grand and Warren. Horan said Hague was a rare kind of alumnus of St. As he did for decades, Horan became many Prep men’s first journalism teacher - as was the case for Hague in the 1978-79 school year. Horan has remained at Prep to this very day and now serves as vice president of planning and principal giving. Peter’s Prep, then went to Marquette to study journalism (notice a pattern there?) and then returned to Prep in 1974. “Jim” Horan, who in 1970 graduated from St. We begin this portion with words from James C. May Jim rest in peace in God’s eternal embrace.”įor his dedication and passion to this area, Feorenzo also announced moving forward, the Athlete of the Year awards and the recipients will be known as The Jim Hague Observer Athletes of the Year. We all loved him so much and this is a sad day in our lives. “Our sympathies and love go out to his wife, Mary. We never could have dreamed of what we were getting when he joined us. In all the years he was with us, he never missed a week of coverage, even in the summer when so little, other than sports camps, were ongoing. “He helped these kids build their future, whether it was in the simple, yet amazing stories he wrote, or with the Athletes of the Week and Athletes of the Year, he did so much for these teenagers. “Jim brought a whole new light to The Observer newspaper with his unmatched coverage of local sports,” Feorenzo said upon learning Jim had died.
Feorenzo says she is devastated by Hague’s death. Hague and Feorenzo, circa 2012.Īnd in 2002, it was The Observer’s Lisa Feorenzo who hired Hague to be this newspaper’s sports reporter, a position he held for 20+ years, until he retired in 2022. Among some of the other noted newspapers and agencies: The Morristown Daily Record, the Associated Press, the now-closed Hudson Reporter chain of newspapers, the Dorf syndicates and others. He worked for so many well-known news agencies that it would almost take an entire story to list them all, but he truly made his name as a scribe at the now-defunct Hudson Dispatch. Then he went to Marquette and when he came back to Jersey, he began his full-time career as a sports journalist. And it was the beginning of his becoming what so many of you have learned over the years - he was true example of the Jesuits’ Men for Others mantra. From September of 1975 until June 1979, he found his footing after the loss of his beloved dad while he was a student at St. Jim grew up on the streets of the Greenville neighborhood of Jersey City and went to school at St. Louis, and now back to Los Angeles and wherever they played on the road any given NFL Sunday. Peter’s Preparatory School to become one of New Jersey’s most celebrated sports journalists - including his spending 20+ years as a sports reporter at The Observer newspaper - died Sunday, June 11, 2023.Īnd while many of us sit here today thinking, “Damnit, 62, he was too young,” and Jim certainly was too young, boy did he ever pack so much life into those years, whether it was on the basketball courts in Greenville, at courtyard or in a classroom at Grand and Warren, in the halls of Marquette in Milwaukee, in the upper deck at Mets games at Shea Stadium, in the Blue Seats at Madison Square Garden as he screamed for his beloved New York Rangers or anywhere the Rams went, (he never knew the Rams in Cleveland but his fandom spanned) from Los Angeles-Anaheim, to St. “Jim” Hague, of Kearny, originally and forever a Jersey City boy, who ascended from being a high school stringer in his days at St.
“Jack” Raslowsky II and comments from former NJ Gov. Peter’s Prep Principal and current Xavier High School President John R. Hague interviewing a Lyndhurst HS player Photo courtesy of Rich TueroĮditor’s note: This story is still evolving and will be updated over the next few days.
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