Mike Neely, longtime president of the Odessa YMCA, is retiring.
Maybe you saw the article in the paper or, like many, knew him personally. I didn’t, or at least I never knew anyone by that name.
There was a Mike Neely who seemed to practically rebuild the YMCA during the past 10 years, but I never met this Mike person. I only ever knew one guy named Neely, and I always call him “Coach.”
Before he took the job at the YMCA, he was a seventh-grade coach at Bonham Junior High, and his first and last year there was the first of my three.
