I was 18 years old when I sat across from a friend of mine in the Simi Valley Denny’s listening to my 18 year old friend contemplate running for Mayor of Simi Valley. “I should do it,” he told me. “The Simi Valley Mayor is almost never contested. If I run a good campaign, I might win.” He didn’t run, though. He had too much respect for city government to run for Mayor just because he could.

I’ve known Robert O. “Bob” Huber for more than 35 years. For most of that time, he has been a member of the Rotary Club. He is the living embodiment of Rotary’s credo “Service Above Self.”

His list of accomplishments and community service is too lengthy to print. Suffice to say, from his current position as president of the board of the Ventura County Community College District through his term on the Simi Valley City Council and his other official and volunteer works, he has given a tremendous amount of himself to our children and us.