Leroy Hammett
Known around the Penn State campus as “pops”, Hammett was the father of the Penn State basketball team’s head coach, LeShawn Hammett, and as the assistant coach helped guide the team to a national championship in 2019. Hammett, who joined his son after retiring from an engineering company, was also remembered as being a pillar in his South Bronx community. He owned a barbershop and often held free haircut days for children and seniors. He died from the coronavirus on March 30 at the age of 71.
