Vernon E. "Bud" McLearn (September 11, 1933 – April 7, 1999) was an American high school basketball coach.
He graduated from Montrose High School in 1951, where he was senior class president,[1] and then from Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant in 1955, with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
He served two years in the United States Army and did graduate study work at Western Illinois University in 1957.
[6][7] McLearn was inducted into the Iowa Girls Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1988,[8] and after dying of cancer in 1999, was posthumously inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2000.
[10] McLearn taught math at Mediapolis and also had a Mississippi River commercial fishing operation with his wife, Joyce (née Wehde), whom he married April 17, 1955 in Tipton.