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Inducted in 1991 … 1961 Clarkstown H.S. alumnus … honored for his accomplishments as a multi-sport athlete, writer and umpire … there were few sports he didn’t excel in … at Clarkstown, he earned All-County notice in football, basketball and baseball … in baseball, his best sport, he batted.364 as a sophomore on the Rams’ county championship squad … he was an All-County pitcher, who also played shortstop, his junior and senior seasons … in football he was a three-year starter and set a then-county record his senior year with 12 interceptions in eight games … he started on Clarkstown’s county-title basketball team his junior year and was Rockland’s eighth leading scorer (12.6 ppg) his senior year … at C.W. Post College, he compiled a two-year pitching mark of 15-3 and was team MVP both seasons … he still holds six school pitching records. including strikeouts in a game (17), strikeouts in a season (96), season earned run average (0.50) and career shutouts (4) … named small-college All-America his senior year … in Connie Mack Baseball, pitched West Haverstraw Masonics to the state title in 1962 struck out 19 batters in one seven-inning game, 21 in a nine-inning game … in bowling, Drummond was 1967 Rockland men’s singles champion … was a highly regarded baseball and softball umpire from 1964 to 1978 who worked three championship games of the Deer Head Softball Tournament … from 1967 to 1993 , he entertained readers of The (Rockland) Journal-News with colorful, well-written game accounts, columns and features in the sports section … was the newspaper’s main high school football writer for more than 20 years.