Everett Pearson (Contributor, Class of 2023, Posthumous)

An All State running back at Pawtucket East High School (now Tolman), Everett Pearson captained the 1954 Brown University football team to a 6-2-1 record, scoring fifty-eight points and being called by Coach Al Kelly “the best blocking back I had at Brown.”

But after he moved to Warren, he made his name on the waters of Narragansett Bay and beyond.  Think about these accomplishments:

      .He was a member of the Burgoo crew that finished first in Class E and second overall in the

           1962 Newport to Bermuda race;

      .Three years later, he authored “The Lure of Sailing”;

      .Everett was a co-founding member of Sail America and Sail Expo;     

      .He designed five boats that are in the American Sailboat Hall of Fame, more than any other builder;

      .His Tillotson-Pearson company built sixteen forty-four-foot sloops for the United State Naval Academy                                 in  2005 and 2006.

For all of this and much more, he was elected to the U. S. National Sailing Hall of Fame.