I am looking forward to "blogging" my thoughts and various happenings during the 2009 HOBY Youth Leadership seminar at TCU in Fort Worth. This is a pretty cool way to keep friends, family, schools and alumni involved, even if from afar.
Ok, a bit about me? I attended HOBY twenty five years ago this month. . .HOBY Massachusetts where I represented Brockton High School. I used to talk about how large Brockton High was until I moved to Texas (around 5,000 students)! I really didn't know much about HOBY when I was asked to attend by my history teacher, Rita Smith, but I trusted her and decided to take a chance. She was a mentor and a source of inspiration and she viewed me as a leader - more about her in another post perhaps.
I won't tell you much about my HOBY experience in this post - except to say that when I arrived at Boston College (where the seminar was being held) I was nervous, perhaps even scared but when I left four days later I felt enlightened, empowered, enthusiastic, honored. . .and a wee bit tired!
Twenty five years and a whole lot of miles later and I am here in Dallas where I live with my wife of many, many years, our daughter Lily (four and a half years old) and a puggle named Arrow (after a Harry Nilsson song.) I work at JC Penney as the DVP of men's product development and design - a dream job for me! And for the last year I have served with an OUTSTANDING group of volunteers as the corporate board president for HOBY Texas North.
In a few days I will have the opportunity to meet with around 180 future leaders, young men and women that will be leading our communities and our world as my daughter gets older - and every year I participate with HOBY I leave with more and more hope for our future!
Well, that is enough about me. . .I look forward to posting during the seminar and giving everyone a bit of the HOBY experience. . .even if you can't be here, perhaps you can experience what we like to call "HOBY Magic!"
Rich H.
Corporate Board President / HOBY Texas North
HOBY '84
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