LONG BEACH, NY. \u2014 Long Beach High School sophomores Thomas Jacoby and Karina Rios received a prestigious award Thursday, as the duo were named the district\u2019s Hugh O\u2019Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) ambassador and alternate ambassador, respectively. <\/p>\n
Founded in 1958 by actor Hugh O\u2019Brian, HOBY is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that seeks to \u201cinspire a global community of youth and volunteers to a life dedicated to leadership, service, and innovation.\u201d The organization holds leadership seminars at the local, state and international level. <\/p>\n
\u201cHugh O\u2019Brian believed in the potential of every human being and was committed to helping young people of the world become major contributors to society,\u201d the organization\u2019s website reads. \u201cHis legacy lives on today, with more than 500,000 HOBY alumni making a difference in the lives of others, thanks to the vision and passion of HOBY\u2019s founder.\u201d <\/p>\n
As for Long Beach\u2019s ambassadors, district officials said Jacoby and Rios have \u201cimpressed the committee with their commitment to service and their emerging leadership skills.\u201d Also nominated for HOBY were sophomores Rebecca Arden, Sophia Lipkin, Grace Haglich, Audrey Maggio, Quinn Radin, Rylee Varian and Hailey Vordermeier. <\/p>\n
The nominees were selected, district officials said, \u201cfor demonstrating strong character, initiative and leadership within our school community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, NY. \u2014 Long Beach High School sophomores Thomas Jacoby and Karina Rios received a prestigious award…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-92937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}