RIP Thread September

Hugh O'Brian, actor. Remember him in the tv series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp(!955-61).
 
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Hugh O'Brian, actor. Remember him in the tv series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp(!955-61).
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Sounds like he was a good man.
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Hugh O'Brian dedicated much of his life to the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY), a non-profit youth leadership development program for high school scholars. HOBY sponsors 10,000 high school sophomores annually through its over 70 leadership programs in all 50 states and 20 countries. Since its inception in 1958, over 435,000 young people have participated in HOBY-related programs.

One high school sophomore from every high school in the United States, referred to as an "ambassador", is welcome to attend a state or regional HOBY seminar. From each of those seminars, students (number based on population) are offered the opportunity to attend the World Leadership Congress (WLC). In 2008, over 500 ambassadors attended from all 50 states and 20 countries. The concept for HOBY was inspired in 1958 by a nine-day visit O’Brian had with famed humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Africa. Dr. Schweitzer believed "the most important thing in education is to teach young people to think for themselves."

O'Brian's message to young people is “Freedom to Choose” as explained in an essay on the topic:

I do NOT believe we are all born equal. Created equal in the eyes of God, yes, but physical and emotional differences, parental guidelines, varying environments, being in the right place at the right time, all play a role in enhancing or limiting an individual's development. But I DO believe every man and woman, if given the opportunity and encouragement to recognize their potential, regardless of background, has the freedom to choose in our world. Will an individual be a taker or a giver in life? Will that person be satisfied merely to exist or seek a meaningful purpose? Will he or she dare to dream the impossible dream? I believe every person is created as the steward of his or her own destiny with great power for a specific purpose, to share with others, through service, a reverence for life in a spirit of love.

— Hugh O'Brian, The Freedom to Choose[13]
 
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This will upset a few on here.

Prince Buster, 78

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Dr.Stanley O'Google said:
Greta Friedman, the woman in white kissed by a sailor in New York’s Times Square in a photograph symbolising the end of the second world war, has died aged 92.

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As a matter of interest the sailor in the picture had just returned from the Pacific. He had been on USS Bunker Hill.
 
Tango, the tiger who appeared in Esso's 'put a tiger in your tank' add's in the 90's has died aged 22 (which is old for a tiger apparently.

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David Harrison of Gilberdyke grew up on Chants Ave. Long time City supporter. Good darts larker, brother of Stanley, died in Dove House Hospice last week. Cremated tomorrow.
R.I.P.
 
Daniel Wilkinson (26), one of our ex-youth players, died on the pitch last night playing for Shaw Lane AFC in the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League.

Suspected heart attack.

Terribly sad.

RIP
 
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