Eugene H. McLin was city recreational director, football coach, baseball official, sports writer for the St. Petersburg Times, teacher and amateur actor and vocalist.
In his obituary, he is described in the following way, “former City of St. Petersburg employee for many years was a Negro supervisor for the City Parks and Recreation Department.”
In 1952, according to an article in the St. Petersburg Times’ “Local and National Negro News,” he directed the drama “The Girl Who Forgot” sponsored by the Non-Pareil Federated club and played the role of the district attorney in the production, which was performed in the Gibbs High School auditorium.
The event, sponsored by the city’s federated, social and service clubs along with the Metropolitan Council of the National Council of Negro women and the Federated Council on Recreation, included a tea and band concert by the Gibbs Senior High School band, assisted by the Sixteenth Street Junior High School band under the direction of bandmasters Reynold Davis and Samuel Robinson respectively.
McLin was a member of the Non-Partisan Voters League in 1960 when J.P. Moses, league president, inaugurated a series of meetings and lectures “to conduct a continuous drive to register every eligible voter” and to educate high school and college students on practical politics.
