“SEI helped me get to where I am today…”

James P. Hill still has his SEI camp T-shirt. He remembers the first Self Enhancement basketball camp and the pride he felt when he wore the t-shirt that identified him as a member of such an important group.

“There is not a day that goes by that I don’t look back and think about my experiences in those summer camps. They helped me get to where I am today,” explains James.

Today he is often high above the crowds in the press box at a Baltimore Orioles baseball game, or courtside at a Washington Wizards basketball game doing play-by-plays as an anchor-reporter for the NBC-TV channel in Hagerstown, Maryland.

James recalls the SEI standards, “Those standards taught you the simplest things really, but they are so important in life. Like the first standard — just begin each interaction with a smile and a handshake. It’s simple and it’s old school, but it’s the right way to do things.”

“(Early SEI leaders) Tony, Ray, and Marshall were all so influential in my life. You knew that they cared because they took time out to help kids. What they did was commendable beyond words—it’s so much bigger than these 25 stories.”

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