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"He was, undoubtedly, the best college goalie I have ever seen," the legendary "Prof" Holloway said of David Allardice, who captured All-State Teachers College goalie honors as a three-time letterman for Cortland between 1938-40. A native of Rochester, N.Y., Allardice earned a bachelor's degree in health and physical education from Cortland in 1941. He earned a master's degree in student personnel administration from Columbia University Teachers College in 1947 and an Ed.D. in administration from the same institution in 1962.

From 1941 until 1974, Allardice worked in a variety of capacities in the Northport (N.Y.) School District. He served as director of adult education for two years, dean of boys for 13 years, principal of the summer school for two years, assistant principal for three years and principal for 14 years. He has given numerous speeches and has been a consultant on topics such as Self-Directed Independent Study; Reporting Pupil Progress; and the Administrative Team Management Approach at conferences of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the New York State Association of Secondary School Administrators, and other state and local educational groups.

Alladice, a member of Phi Delta Kappa and the 1963 recipient of the John Hay Fellowship in the Humanities from Bennington College, spent three summers as an adjunct professor in teacher education at Hofstra University and SUNY College at Geneseo.

After retiring in 1974, Allardice went overseas as an administrator of American Schools. Between 1975 and 1977 , he was principal of the Community School Junior High in Tehran, Iran. The following year he served at superintendent of the American School of Kinshasa, Zaire. In 1979-80, Allardice was principal of the American School in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1981, he returned to the United States and spent the next six years as a counselor in the Fairfax (Va.) Public Schools.

UPDATE: Allardice passed away on March 23, 2005 at age 86.