ABOUT THE PRESIDENT:

   - A Director, Shrine Burn Institute

   - President,
	The Youth Leadership Foundation, Inc.

   - 1991 (Silver) & 2000 (Gold) Recipient, The Military Order,
       "Patrick Henry Patriotism Award" 

   - National Chairman, Patriotic Education Committee,

	The Military Order (MOWW)

   - 2003 Knighted by the Priory of St Joan of Arc 

Education:
Graduate - Indiana University - School of Business

Graduate - Purdue University - Engineering School

Graduate - Indiana University - School of Law
Background:

Colonel Straub was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. The son of the former Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, he began his military career at an early age graduating from Culver Military Academy and joining the Indiana Air National Guard before graduation from High School. During years of flying with the Air Force completing combat tours in Korea and Vietnam and earning his higher educational degrees, he worked with under-privileged and developmentally handicapped children while playing four years of profesional football. He also completed foreign tours in the Philippines, Alaska, England and Germany. After medical retirement from the Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel with over 20 years of active service, he initiated his famous "Stop Burn Injuries" program in the 1983/1984 school year. Since that time he has spoken to more than 253,000 students regarding burns, burn treatment and the things their elders do that get them burned.