HOBY 2010
We are excited to announce that there will be two North
Carolina HOBY seminars in 2010. HOBY-NC
East will be held in Raleigh, and the new
HOBY-NC West will be in Winston-Salem.
To determine which seminar students from your county will attend, consult
the HOBY-NC counties list or the map
below.
HOBY
Registration
If you are a current high school Sophomore and
are interested in attending HOBY 2010, please
contact your guidance counselor.
HOBY History
The Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY)
program was founded by Hugh O'Brian in 1958.
That year, the actor most famous for his role
as Hollywood's Wyatt Earp had the unique
opportunity to spend nine inspirational days
with the great humanitarian, Dr. Albert
Schweitzer at Schweitzer's clinic in Africa.
There, Dr. Schweitzer impressed upon him that
"the most important thing in education is to
teach young people to think for themselves."
This thought inspired Mr. O'Brian to create the
first Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Seminar,
which he founded two weeks after his return to
Los Angeles. Throughout the years, the
organization has grown and developed. And
today, there are over 70 HOBY seminars held
each year throughout the United States. For
more information about the National Hoby
organization, visit www.hoby.org .
North Carolina's HOBY
History
North Carolina's first HOBY Leadership Seminar
was held in 1979 by the Charlotte Jaycees at
Belmont College. Fifty high school sophomores
attended. By 1987, the HOBY-NC seminar had
grown to over 200 Ambassadors. From 1988
through 2002, the Raleigh Jaycees ran a HOBY
Seminar for Ambassadors from the Eastern half
of the state and the Charlotte Jaycees ran the
seminar for Ambassadors from the Western half
of the state. However, in 2003, the seminars
were reunited again under a single HOBY-NC
banner and are now managed and staffed
primarily by the Raleigh Jaycees. This year, Jaycees and HOBY alumni
from all over North Carolina have united to relaunch a second HOBY-NC
seminar.
The Raleigh
Jaycees
The Raleigh Jaycees are proud to continue
managing and supporting the HOBY NC program.
For more than 75 years, the Raleigh Jaycees
have served the Triangle area, providing
service to the local community and leadership
development opportunities to its members. The
Raleigh Jaycees is a civic organization
comprised of men and women between the ages of
21 and 40 which runs more than 100 community
service and leadership development projects
each year. One of the mottos of the Jaycees
organization is "Leadership Development through
Community Service" --a view shared with the
HOBY program. For more information, visit
www.raleighjaycees.org or
call (919) 713-0031.
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