April 18, 2024

Rowray to be honored on NHS Legacy Night

By Jocelyn Sheets

Newton High applied this new signage to the NHS basketball floor in recognition of former NHS basketball coach Buzz Levick and the Cardinals’ back-to-back state championship teams. It is part of the 2015 Legacy Night on Jan. 30 when Newton will honor the late David Rowray, who coached football for the Cardinals. (Submitted Photo)

Newton High’s 2015 Legacy Night will honor the late NHS football coach David “Rowe” Rowray. Rowray taught and coached at Newton Senior High School from 1970 to 2003, when he retired.

Rowray, who died March 20, 2014, was a head basketball coach for the boys and coached on the Cardinal football staff. On Jan. 30, Rowray’s coaching and teaching at NHS will be recognized during halftime of the varsity boys’ basketball game between Newton and Dallas Center-Grimes.

NHS Activities Director Scott Garvis said Rowray’s daughters, Alyson Morrison of Urbandale and Jennifer Lasagna of Dallas, Texas, will be in attendance on Legacy Night.

Also recognizing longtime NHS basketball coach Buzz Levick and the Cardinal back-to-back state championship teams of 1963-64 and 1964-65, the school district added a new decal on the NHS basketball floor.

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