Robert “Bunny” Brennan was born August 24, 1954, in Elmhurst, NY. He moved with his Mom (Betty) and Dad (Bunny, Sr.) to West Babylon in 1959. He is the oldest of four siblings Mike, Karen and Dan, all WB grads. Bunny graduated from West Babylon High School in 1972. He played varsity football, basketball and baseball. He attended Southern Connecticut State College where he played baseball for 4 years and was Captain in his senior year. Bunny, along with his childhood friend Peter Colletti recently retired from baseball after 64 years, starting in Little League and ending in the MSBL (Men’s Senior Baseball League).

Bunny married the love of his life, Ellen, a retired West Babylon teacher who taught Special Ed math in high school for 34 years. They have been married for 32 years and have raised their twin boys, Robert and Thomas, in Northport. Bob worked over 30 years as Director of Customer Service and Distribution for a manufacturer of products in the pet care industry. He was a volunteer coach for CYO basketball at St. Philip Neri and coach for Northport Little League and for their travel baseball program.

Thirty-one years ago, he started the Bunny Classic Golf Outing to honor his father, Bernard, the original Bunny who had passed. Over the years, through the Bunny Classic, we have raised over $100,000 for the Hospice Care Network Children’s Bereavement Fund and has handed out over $10,000 to the West Babylon Alumni Scholarships to seniors in his dad’s name.
The Bunny Classic has become a huge West Babylon reunion attended by over 150 alumni, former teachers and administrators every year. For the past decade the West Babylon reunions have been scheduled around the Bunny Classic, knowing that so many Eagles will be in town. At the post dinner he honors an individual with the “Eagle Award” for those who continue to support the West Babylon community.

One of his proudest achievements has been raising funds and awareness for the St Baldricks Foundation for Kids Cancer Research. When his sons Robert and Thomas were 7 years old, they asked their dad to shave his head with them to show solidarity with children undergoing and recovering from cancer treatments. He never hesitated to say yes, and Team Bunny was created. Along with Robert and Thomas “Team Bunny” has included former and current West Babylon teachers and students. Together they have raised nearly half a million dollars for St Baldricks Kids Cancer Research. Bunny has become Knight of Round Table, a Crusader for a Cure and Baron of the Brave. He still shaves his head every March for the Foundation and is the MC for their annual event held in early March at Napper Tandy’s in Northport.

Bunny is humbled and honored to be inducted into the West Babylon HOF. He remains thankful for all West Babylon has given him and his family.

“Once an Eagle, Always an Eagle”