RGHF Member Don Higgins

Don Higgins

In 1984 I was invited to join the Rotary Club of St. Petersburg West by John Scheidt after being a quest at several meetings.  My first community service project was sponsoring Interact Clubs at St. Petersburg Catholic High School and Boca Ciega High School.  John and I attended Interact meetings, volunteered on some of their service projects and invited them to Rotary meetings for special events.  Over the next few years, I enjoyed helping with organizing local one day version of Seminars For Tomorrow's Leaders (S4TL) to recognize and encourage young leaders in the community.  Today all the clubs in district 6950 and surrounding districts send student leaders to a weeklong S4TL seminar each summer: 

It wasn't until about 1988 that I really developed a fuller appreciation of what it means to be a "Rotarian".   ...