2016 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 172
BY SENATOR LAFLEUR
A RESOLUTION
To commend the organizers of the Louisiana Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership seminars and
to recognize June 1, 2016, as "HOBY Youth Leadership Day" at the Capitol.
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 personal
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.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend the organizers of the Louisiana Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership
seminars slated for June 10-12, 2016, and does hereby recognize June 1, 2016, as "HOBY
Youth Leadership Day" in the state of Louisiana.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Cindy Bishop, Leadership Seminar Chairman of the Louisiana HOBY Leadership Seminar,
Nial Patel, Corporate Board Chairman of Louisiana HOBY, and to Hugh O'Brian, who
turned ninety-one years of age on April 19, 2016.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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