Earle C. Reed was born in Dunkirk, New York, on October 11, 1940. He subsequently moved to this area with his family and graduated from New Hartford Central School in 1959 and from Boston University in 1963. He currently lives in Barneveld.

Earle has been affiliated with Utica Boilers for 23 years, serving as president of the company for the past several years.

He has an outstanding and continuing record of community service. He currently serves on the boards of directors of:

Norstar Bank, St. Luke's Memorial Hospital, Central New York Arts Council, Utica Fire Insurance Company, and Commercial Travelers Mutual Insurance Company. He was the Greater Utica United Way Chairman in 1986.

His major impact on the sports community began 13 years ago when the first Utica Boilermaker Road Race was held with 800 participants. A small group of area runners with Earle as chairman staged that first race. The rest is history-a sports success story that has had a great impact on the whole greater Utica area and the national running community. To this day Earle Reed serves as the race director of the Boilermaker and is currently preparing, as he has been for many months, for the fourteenth annual road race to be held here as a major element of the Good Old Summertime celebration on July 14.

More importantly, the race has become an area happening, involving not only thousands of participants, but also the hundreds of volunteers who look forward to actively supporting this fantastic event. The race also brings out thousands of cheering spectators encouraging the runners as they traverse the city streets from the Utica Boilers on the East Side to the F.X. Matt Brewing Company on the West Side. This has become the biggest sports event in our area. As such, it has a great social and economic impact on Central New York. Out of town and out of State participants leave not only highly impressed with the quality and professionalism of the race staff, but also with the beauty of the area and the friendliness of its people.

Earl C. Reed is being honored by the Greater Utica Sports Hall of Fame for the tremendous impact he continues to have on the sports scene in the Greater Utica Area.