HOBY Maryland
Carol Applegate has extensive experience in community service and healthcare research. Since 2005, Carol has been a member and served as President of the Greater Jacksonville, MD Optimist Club, focusing on leadership and social activities for children. Additionally, Carol has been a Corporate Board Trustee for the Hugh O'Brian Youth Maryland Leadership Seminar since 1984, coordinating funds and implementing leadership programs for high school students. As an Ophthalmic Research Coordinator at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center from 2006 to July 2024, Carol contributed to groundbreaking research on Stargardt Juvenile Macular Degeneration. Previous roles include Program Vice President for the Hugh O'Brian Youth World Leadership Conference, volunteering to lead an international seminar, Training Coordinator at Adell Plastics, and Research Coordinator at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, where Carol specialized in age-related macular degeneration. Carol holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree from The Johns Hopkins University.
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HOBY Maryland
Our vision is to motivate and empower individuals to make a positive difference within our global society through understanding and action based on effective and compassionate leadership. The Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) was founded by Hugh O'Brian in 1958. That year, Mr. O'Brian had the unique opportunity to spend nine inspirational days with the great humanitarian, Dr. Albert Schweitzer at his clinic in Africa. There, Dr. Schweitzer impressed upon him that "the most important thing in education is to teach young people to think for themselves." That thought became the cornerstone for the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership, which Mr. O'Brian founded two weeks after his return to Los Angeles. Since then, HOBY has carried out its mission "to inspire and develop our global community of youth and volunteers to a life dedicated to leadership, service and innovation."