The History of Our Success
Our travels with Pinellas students began in 1973 when Mrs. Martha Brincklow, then humanities teacher at Dunedin High School, was asked by some of her students to personally show them the places they had been studying. That first trip to Europe included 24 students, Mrs. Brincklow and two other humanities teachers.
Mrs. Brincklow was requested by what was then St. Petersburg Junior College to create an international travel-study program including college-level instruction. This new program was supported by the state of Florida’s Dual Credit initiative and continued for 26 years. When, in 2006, SPC chose to discontinue its international studies programs, Stephan Straub, who had joined Mrs. Brincklow’s staff in 1980, created Europe Grand Tour and continues today introducing high school upper classman to the architecture, painting, sculpture and history of Western Europe.
To date, this program has safely taken over 1,000 student travelers to Europe.
