The Tea Burner Race is held in memory of longtime Greenwich

Mayor, Wally Goodwin.  Wally, a fourth generation of the Goodwin

family to live in Greenwich, served as Mayor for twenty-three years

and held one of the longest tenures in New Jersey.  He truly loved

Greenwich Township and dedicated his adult life to serving its

residents in both official and unofficial capacities.  It was not

unusual to find Wally shoveling snow from residents’ driveways. 

Wally, an avid jogger and weightlifter, supported many local club,

high school and college sports programs.  He passed away,

unexpectedly, on December 17, 2005 while on his way to ring the

Christmas bell for the Salvation Army Red Kettle drive at the local

Greenwich Country Store.  In Wally’s memory, the Goodwin family

established the C. Wallis Goodwin Scholarship Fund to honor a

college bound senior at Cumberland Regional High School who has

​provided voluntary service to his or her community. 

May 16, 1939 – December 17, 2005

To An Athlete Dying Young

The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;

Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

Today, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

A. E. Housman