Sanford N. McDonnell Lifetime Achievement Award
in Character Education - 2005

WELCOME

Hal Urban's message is about one thing:
GOOD CHARACTER

His teaching, writing, and speaking are about what he calls "old-fashioned goodness":
  • Positive attitude
  • Respect and kindness
  • Hard work
  • Honesty and integrity
  • Thankfulness
  • Humor and laughter
  • Life-long learning
  • He has no "secret" for becoming successful, no "magic formula" for complete happiness, no "amazing new techniques" for attaining the American Dream, no "quick and easy" ways to become rich and powerful, and no "unique method" for getting everything you want.

    He does, however, have a time-honored formula for a good life - one of achievement, meaning, purpose, inner peace, friendship, and joy.

    Our prayers are answered not when we are
    given what we ask for, but when we are
    challenged to be what we can be.
                         - Mortimer Adler