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2016 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 206
BY REPRESENTATIVES BARRAS AND MIKE JOHNSON
A RESOLUTION
To commend the organizers of the Louisiana Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership seminars and
to designate Wednesday, June 1, 2016, as Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Day.
WHEREAS, Hugh O'Brian, the Hollywood star who portrayed Wyatt Earp in the
television series "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp", founded the Hugh O'Brian Youth
Leadership Foundation in 1958; and
WHEREAS, the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation, also known as HOBY,
organizes and promotes annual leadership seminars for thousands of high school sophomores
throughout the United States and abroad; and
WHEREAS, the objectives of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership program are to
seek out, recognize, develop, and reward leadership potential in high school students, to
encourage and assist young people in their quests for self-identification and self-
development, to host workshops for young people with recognized leaders in business,
industry, government, science, and education, and to stimulate opportunities for young
people to demonstrate their leadership abilities for the benefit of their communities and their
country; and
WHEREAS, to date, more than four hundred seventy-five thousand students have
completed the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership program and the 2016 Louisiana Hugh
O'Brian Youth Leadership seminar is scheduled for Friday, June 10, 2016, through Sunday,
June 12, 2016.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend the organizers of the Louisiana Hugh
O'Brian Youth Leadership seminars and does hereby designate Wednesday, June 1, 2016,
as Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Day.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to Cindy Bishop, chairperson of the Louisiana HOBY Leadership Seminar, Nial Patel,
corporate board chairman, and to Hugh O'Brian, who celebrated ninety-one years of age on
April 19, 2016.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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