
TEMECULA – Six students from six local high schools shared their experiences with the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership program and what it meant to them with the Temecula Valley Woman’s Club recently. The Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership is a nonprofit youth leadership development program for high school sophomores.The concept for Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership was inspired in 1958 by a nine-day visit O’Brian had with famed humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Africa. Schweitzer believed “the most important thing in education is to teach young people to think for themselves.”Two weeks after returning to Los Angeles, deeply inspired, O’Brian put together a prototype seminar for young leaders.O’Brian’s message was explained in an essay on the topic, entitled “T