Denis Callaghan

Mr. Denis Callaghan was born in Ireland in 1886, later moving to America at the age of eighteen. He lived most of his life in Joliet, Illinois, until his death in 1965. For two decades by thought, word and deed, Mr. Callaghan dominated the activities of the National Coursing Association (NCA). He served in every capacity as a committeeman, secretary, vice-president and president of the National Coursing Association. He was known as Mr. NCA, providing the wisdom, guidance and inspiration that was instrumental in a small association growing into a 3,000-strong National Greyhound Association. It is fitting indeed that his peers chose Mr. Callaghan to be one of the first enshrined in the Greyhound Hall of Fame.