BOARD OF GOVERNORS
(Advisory)

CHAIRMAN
MICHAEL R. BONSIGNORE
Executive Vice President and C.O.O.
Honeywell, Inc.

RICHARD A. CAMPBELL
Business Consultant
DOROTHY S. CORSON
Director
Coachmen Industries, Inc.

KENNETH R. DICKERSON
Sr. Vice President, Gov't Affairs
ARCO
WILLIAM M. KELLINGHAUS
Former President
T A T
TINA BANTI FLAHERTY
President and C.O.E
Image Marketing International
ANNE S. FUCHS
Publisher

W. BARRON HILTON
Chairman, President and C.O.E.
Hilton Hotels Corporation
HONORABLE GLEN A. HOLDEN
United States Ambassador to Jamaica
DONALD R. KEOUGH
President and C.O.O.
The Coca-Cola Company
RAM KUBUMOTO
President
Minota Corporation
JACK A. MACALLISTER
Chairman of the Board
U.S. West, Inc.

CHARLES T. MANATT
Attorney at Law
Manatt, Phoebe, Rothenberg & Evans
HARRY A. MERLO
Chairman and President
Louisiana Pacific Corporation
RICHARD D. MILLER, Ph.D.
Executive Director
American Assoc. of School Administrators
JAMES E. OESTERREICHER
Executive Vice President and
Director of Stores
J.C. Penny Company, Inc.
ANTHONY J.F. O'REILLY
Chairman, President and C.O.E.
H.J. Hertz Company
R.J. PFEIFER
Chairman and C.O.E.
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.
CARL R. POLAD
President
Marquette Bank Minneapolis
HONORABLE WILLIAM E. SIMON
President
John M. Oin Foundation
WILLIAM A. SIMPSON
President
U.S. Life Insurance Co.
ROBERT W. TIEKEN
Vice President
Finance & Information Technology
Aerospace Group
General Electric Company
J.S. WEBB, JR.
Chairman of the Board
The Titan Corporation

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

CHAIRMAN
ROGER E. STANGELAND
Chairman and C.E.O
The Vons Companies, Inc.

VICE CHAIRMEN
GEORGE L. GRAZIADIO
Vice Chairman, President and C.O.E
Imperial Bancorp
RAY A. WATT
Chairman of the Board
Walt Industries, Inc.

ALDEN G. BARBER
Former Chief Executive
Boy Scouts of America
RONALD L. CEDILLOS
President
Cedils Testing Company

WILLARD T. CHAMBERLAIN
Former Sr. Vice President, Corporate Affairs
ARCO
JOHN M. CLAERHOUT
President and C.O.O.
Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation

WILLIAM A. DAEGLING
Investment Advisor
Trust Company of the West
JOHN B. DAVIES
General Agent
Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins. Co.
RICHARD K. EAMER
Chairman and C.O.E
National Medical Enterprises
WILLIAM FINESTONE
Attorney at Law
Water, Firestone, Richer & Kane
CHARLES A. FISCHER
Chairman and C.O.E
Concernage Management Group
PAUL E. GRIFFIN, JR.
President
Gretin Homes
ADELE D. HOPMANN, M.D.
Director, Adolescent Medicine
U.C. Irvine Medical Center
RANDY S. KUREK
Attorney at Law
Isaac, Brand, Liedman & Becker
TOM LASORDA
Manager
Los Angeles Dodgers
THOMAS G. LEWIS
President and C.O.E
Moran Company

ROBERT L. LORBER, Ph.D.
President
Lower Kamal Consulting Group
CURTIS L. McCRAY, Ph.D.
President
California State University, Long Beach

DANIEL J. McLOON
Attorney at Law
Jones, Day, Reave & Pogue
JOHN J. MENTALLY
Partner
Price Waterhouse

HUGH O'BRIAN
Founder and C.O.E
Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation
ROBERT E. PETERSEN
Chairman
Petersen Publishing Company

GENE L. PHELPS
President
Gene Phelps Associates
MARTIN L. RAYNER
Executive Vice President
Johnson & Higgins

WILLIAM E. SIMMS
Sr. Vice President, Reinsurance
Transamerica Occidental Life
RICHARD J. STEGEMEIER
Chairman, President and C.O.E
Unocal Corporation

CARL R. TERZIAN
Chairman of the Board
Carl Terzian Associates
JON D. VAN DEUREN
Partner

KPMG Paul Marwec
HONORARY TRUSTEE
J. WILLIAM HAYES
President
Hayes, Home, Petas & Langberg

HUGH O'BRIAN

YOUTH FOUNDATION

OCT 17 1991

October 11, 1991

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
350 Park Avenue, 26th Floor
New York, N.Y. 10022

Dear Henry:

Along with this photo, comes my deep gratitude to you for helping to make our Albert Schweitzer Leadership Award Dinner a great success. We raised over $750,000.00 that evening. I want you to see the program from our July World Leadership Congress, which was our World Series that came out of HOBY's 91 seminars last spring, so here it is and some updated information on HOBY which is where I am putting all of my guts, bucks and time.

The Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation (HOBY) is celebrating 33 years of motivating tomorrow's leaders today. HOBY's purpose is to seek out, recognize and develop high school sophomores who have evidenced leadership potential by conducting annual "leadership training workshops" at the state and international level. HOBY's vital task is to show these future leaders the realities of what makes America tick through interactive question-and-answer sessions with today's leaders who are on the firing line in business, government, education and the professions. I call it "preventive medicine" motivating potential achievers while they still have two years left in high school to motivate themselves and their classmates.

Our selection process begins each September when the National Association of Secondary School Principals sends the HOBY nomination materials to all public and private high schools in the United States. Every 10th grader is eligible and encouraged to apply. All schools have the opportunity to select their outstanding sophomore leader to attend a three to four day seminar which are held in each state every spring at no cost to the student or the school.

Next spring, more than 13,000 high school sophomores, representing that many schools, will attend 91 HOBY Leadership Seminars held in all 50 states, the Bahamas, Canada, Jamaica, Japan and Mexico. Many states hold two to five HOBY seminars due to the large number of schools in that state. All HOBY seminars have the theme, "America's Incentive System," and all are conducted by volunteers. No money is requested, nor does it come from any government source or the United Way. All HOBY programs are funded entirely by the private sector.

10880 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 900 • Los Angeles, CA 90024 • (Office) 213/474-4370 • (Fax) 213/475-5426

PAUL HARVEY

The Post-Journal

New York—Saturday, January 19, 1991

# Who Will Lead Us Tomorrow?

With public education in the United States flunking its finals — with seniors graduating unable to comprehend rudimentary reading, writing and arithmetic — who will lead us?

Why don't we approach high schoolers during their sophomore year and encourage them to get off the self-pity pot and make something of themselves?

How could we do that?

We could start by creating an organization. "PLEASE — NOT AN-OTHER ORGANIZATION!"

Wait, hear me out:

If we could somehow instill a positive mental attitude in early teens — forget the fallacious “all equal” nonsense — we could demonstrate to all young individuals how truly individual they are.

Then we could bring them together for rap sessions with leading professionals in business, government, education and the professions to learn firsthand how to put rivets in their dreams.

It would take leadership and organization and seminars and one-school-at-a-time participation networked into a national effort.

Industries, with their insatiable appetite for uncommon young recruits, would be eager to help finance it.

Within a generation we could impact the world.

Too much to expect? On the contrary, it's already being done at the grass-roots level and very successfully for 33 years by the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation (HOBY).

Each fall more than 13,000 of our public and private high schools select their outstanding 10th grade student to attend one of HOBY's 83 three-day seminars held throughout the United States in the spring.

Many states hold two to five semesters because of the large number of high schools. The Super Bowl of these motivating question-and-answer experiences is HOBY's nine-day World Leadership Congress.

This summer Chicago will host the latter — high school sophomores who have committed themselves to be the very best that they can be.

At no cost to the students or their schools, and no money requested from any government source, these young “ambassadors” are taught by precept and example how to share a future that's more pregnant with opportunity than ever before.

If the purpose sounds simplistic and trite, that reaction may reflect the distance our country has backslid off its foundations.

While there are plenty of voices condamning the aberrant behavior of young people, here is a constructive effort spearheaded and supported each year by 2 million volunteer hours, given by people who are on the firing line in all walks of life who believe in O'Brian's dream and prefer his brand of Wyatt Earp action agendas over just “do nothing” cocktail tall talk!

In his magnificent score of Vagabond King, Rudolf Friml wrote,

"Give me 10 men who are stout-hearted men and I'll soon give you 10,000 more..."

That is what it takes, of course. Ten to lead 10,000 to lead the rest of us back to the genesis of American liberty, back to a firm reliance on do-it-yourself achievement.

Americans of every generation have been admonished by parents and teachers to "make something of yourself."

The Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation is bringing today's leaders together with tomorrow's leaders to show and tell how it's done.

© 1991 LOS ANGELES TIMES SYNDICATE

BOARD OF GOVERNORS
(Advisory)

HUGH O'BRIAN
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YOUTH FOUNDATION

CHAIRMAN
MICHAEL R. BONNEMINE
Executive Vice President and COO
Honeywell, Inc.

RICHARD A. CAMPBELL
Business Consultant
DOROTHY R. CUMSON
Director

Conradina Thomas, Inc.
KENNETH R. DICKERSON
Sr. Vice President, Gov't Affairs
ARCO

WILLIAM M. ELLINGHAUS
Family President

AT&T
TENA BANTU FLAHERTY
Chairman and CEO
IBM Corporation

ANNE & FUCHS
Publishers
Vitacorp

W. BARRON HILTON
Chairman, President and CEO
IBM Corporation

DONALD R. KIZUCH
President and COO
The Coca-Cola Company

BAM KULLMOTO
President
IBM Corporation

JACK A. MAXALLIFTER
Chairman of the Board

U.S. Steel, Inc.

CHARLES T. MANATT
Chairman of the Board

JOSEPH PHILIPPOPOULOS & FIDE
Chairman and President

KATRY A. MERLO
Chairman and President

LUCIANO PARRA CORREA
RICHARD D. MILLER, Ph.D.
Executive Director

JAMES E. OESTERRIECHER
Executive Vice President and
Director of Sales

J. F. Papp Company, Inc.
ANTHONY J.F. OREILLY
Chairman, President and CEO

R.J. PFEIFTER
Chairman and CEO

AQUILA & BARRON, INC.
Assistant to the Board

CARL R. POLAD
President

Mortimer Barns, Chairman

HONORABLE WILLIAM E. SIMON
Chairman

John M. O'Conner
President

WILLIAM A. SIMPSON
President

U.S. Life Insurance Co.

ROBERT W. TIEKEN
President and Chairman of the
Board of Directors

JOSEPH P. TICHTENBERG
President and Chairman of the
Board of Directors

J. A. WEBB, JR.
Chairman

The Train Corporation

For Immediate Release

Contact: Otella Wruck
Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation
(213) 474-4370

HUGH O'BRIAN TO LEAD 34 STUDENTS ON USA-USSR
CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM

Actor Hugh O'Brian, founder and CEO of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation (HOBY), will lead a group of 34 high school and college students on a 21-day cultural exchange experience that will take them to Germany, Sweden, and the Soviet Union.

In return, O'Brian and HOBY will host a group of 26 Soviet students from a group called "Youth Creators of the 21st Century," who will visit the United States on July 14, 1991 and return on August 7th. The Soviet students will be housed with American families in the Philadelphia area where an extensive program is planned to introduce them to the American way of life. Six Soviet students from the group will be selected to represent the USSR at the HOBY "World Leadership Congress," where tenth graders from the United States and thirty other countries will convene to explore leadership and entrepreneurial opportunities in Chicago, July 16 through August 3, coordinated by the Illinois Institute of Technology.

This 21 day "learning experience" for the 34 American students begins on June 21, when they fly from New York to Berlin, taking a tour to the "new" amalgamated Berlin. From there they take a train to Frankfurt, and a flight to Moscow where they will arrive on June 24th. For ten days they will tour Moscow, spend time with Soviet families, attend educational seminars coordinated by the Soviet Academy of Science, and interface with top Soviet leaders in business, education and government who are currently on the firing line in the USSR.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

CHAIRMAN
ROGER E. STANGELAND
Chairman and CEO
The Vana Corporation

VICE CHAIRMAN
GEORGE L. GRAZIADIO
Vice Chairman and CEO

RAY A. WATT
Chairman and CEO
The Vana Corporation

AIDEN C. BARBER
Chairman and CEO
Byron & America
Ronald L. CEDILLIO
Chairman

JAMES T. CHAMBERLAIN
Chairman and Vice President Corporate Affairs

JOHN M. CLAERMOLT
Vice President and COO

WILLIAM A. DAEGLENG
Vice President and COO

JOHN B. DAVIES
Vice President and COO

WILLIAM FINERONE
Vice President

JOHN M. DICKINSON
Vice President and COO

CHARLES A. FISCHER
Vice President and CEO

JOSEPH F. GRAFFIN, JR.
Vice President and COO

WILLIAM F. GRAFFIN, JR.
Vice President and COO

DELE B. HOFMANN, M.B.
Vice President and COO

JOSEPH H. HOFFMAN, JR.
Vice President and COO

JANDY & KULKEK
Vice President and COO

D. B. HARRIS & B. BAKER
Vice President and COO

ON LABORDA
Vice President

M. A. HARRIS
Vice President

ROBERT L. LORBER, Ph.D.
Vice President

JOSEPH M. LORBER
Vice President

URTIS L. MCKAY, Ph.D.
Vice President

JOSEPH M. MCKAY
Vice President and Co-Chairman

ANTON J. McLOON
Vice President

JOHN J. MCKAY & POPINA
Vice President

DICK J. MCKINNALLY
Vice President

UGH O'BRIAN
Vice President and CEO
of O'Brien Youth Foundation

OBERT E. PETERSEN
Chairman

DANIEL L. PHELPS
Vice President

JOSEPH P. PHILLIP
Vice President and CEO

ILLIAM E. RIMMS
Vice President

CHARLES J. RIEGEMEIER
Vice President and CEO

JAL & TERZIAN
Chairman

JAL & TERZIAN
Chairman of the Board

W. D. VAN DELUXE
Chairman

W. D. VAN DELUXE
Chairman

HONORARY TRUSTEE
WILLIAM HAYES
Chairman

W. D. VAN DELUXE
Chairman

After Moscow, the Americans travel to Leningrad (whose people just voted to change the name back to pre-Czarist St. Petersburg) where they are promised interesting insights concerning the Russian people and their struggle for the future.

From Leningrad, the students travel to Tallinn for an exciting two days in the Baltic Republic of Estonia. The culmination of the trip will be a cruise to Stockholm, where Americans will visit with HOBY Alumni from Sweden. After three seminars, conducted by Swedish businessmen, and a tour of the city, the HOBY Ambassadors will return to the United States. The USA exchange students are all former attendees of HOBY seminars held in their home states. The students were selected as sophomores in high school to attend HOBY seminars based on demonstrated scholarship and leadership ability.

Thirty-three years ago, actor Hugh O'Brian, star of the hit TV series, "Wyatt Earp," founded HOBY to foster the development of leadership skills and an understanding of the American incentive system in young people. Since HOBY's inception, the HOBY 100,000 young lives have been touched and enriched by the HOBY program at no cost to the selected student or to the school. O'Brian continues to seek out opportunities for providing growth experiences for exceptional young people, who have demonstrated leadership potential, in hopes that through a "ripple effect" they will be able to influence and positively motivate their peers. The HOBY USA-USSR Youth Exchange Program is a prime example of his commitment to investing in the youth of today for a better tomorrow.

This is the third year of the HOBY USSR Youth Exchange, and it is being conducted with the simple underlying notion that more communication and awareness between citizens of the two super powers, with emphasis on the younger generation, can only lead to a further reduction of the existing barriers and improved world relations.

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