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Clarence Higgins

served as Executive Director of the Fort Smith Boys Club for 26 years.  During his career with the Club (1945-1971), the Wheeler Club wasexpanded and the Jeffrey and Evans units were added. 

Higgins is considered to be one of the most influential public servantsto ever serve the Fort Smith community.  In 1957, he was one of the founding fathers of Fort Smith Church League baseball.  Higgins alsohelped organize the Paris Boys Club and served as Babe Ruth state commissioner for several years. 

Perhaps his greatest legacy was helping promote 17 of his former Club members/staff to professional careers in the Boys & Girls Club movement.  Because of his work with youth baseball, Higgins was inducted into the Babe Ruth Baseball Hall of Fame in Trenton, NJ.   

After retirement, “Hig” and his wife Opal moved to Oark, Arkansas where they owned and managed the general store. Higgins died in 1992 at the age of 82.