Who's Who from Tarpon

• Bertie Higgins had a hit record "Key Largo" in 1982 and his album Just Another Day in Paradise went Platinum.
  
  
• Edward C. Hoffman, Jr.  -  Class of 1969 - award winning architect. Mr. Hoffman was a mentor within the Pinellas County schools for many years. http://www.hoffmanarchitects.net/news.html
  
  
• Peter King became a world renowned architectural ceramist and speaker.  He published a book in 1999 entitled Architectural Ceramics.  He also wrote articles for the magazine Architectural Digest.  He received an honorary doctorate from the University of West Florida.
  
  
• Julian Higgins - Went to directing school in Burbank, CA where he now resides.  He just directed and completed his first movie entitled "The Wrath".  The St. Pete Times wrote about his endeavor as the final scenes were filmed on the Pirate Ship off of Clearwater Beach.
  
  
• Robert Trask Mann - He was born in Tarpon Springs and graduated in 1941 from Tarpon Springs High School. He returned to Tarpon Springs in 1989 and moved in 2000 to Belleair. He earned degrees from the University of Florida in 1946, George Washington University in 1948, University of Florida in 1951, Harvard University in 1953, Yale University in 1968 and Stetson University in 1979. He was an Army veteran of World War II. He was a former judge, state legislator and law professor. In 1956, he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives as a Democrat representing Hillsborough County. He was a judge in the 2nd District Court of Appeal, taught law at the University of Florida and was appointed to the Public Service Commission. He was awarded the St.Petersburg Times most valuable legislator award for 1967 and named Outstanding Young Man of 1958 by the Tampa Jaycees. From 1968 to 1974, he served on the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland and was chief judge during his last two years there. He was a law professor at the University of Florida from 1974 to 1986 and in 1977, he was appointed the Public Service Commission in 1977. He was a life member of the American Bar Association, America Law Institute, the American Bar Foundation and the American Judicature Society, a member of University of Florida Law Review, a past president of both the Seffner Civic Club and Tampa Urban League, a former vice president of Tampa Jaycees and a member Tampa Philharmonic Association. He was a member of First United Methodist Church of Clearwater, Tarpon Springs Rotary and Friends of the Library, and a member and past president of the Old Timers Club of Tarpon Springs.

 

Athletes

• NFL PLAYERS
  Donald Smith – Atlanta Falcons
  Teddy Watts – Oakland Raiders
  Kipp Vickers – Indianapolis Colts
  Mike Gruttadauria – St. Louis Rams
  Mitch Geier – Washington Redskins