News release

HP Recognizes Innovation and Community Service with 2004 Leadership Awards

Five City Year alumni honored for leadership development and commitment to community

HP today presented its annual HP Leadership Awards to five distinguished alumni of City Year, a national youth-service corps that unites young people, ages 17 to 24, from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds for a year of full-time community service.

The 2004 HP Leadership Awards recognize five young people having a profound impact on communities across the United States. Their outstanding accomplishments include leading a group of Boston educators in founding a charter school for underserved children; establishing an innovative community service program at Tulane University; providing leadership to start four new City Year programs around the country; and mobilizing a New York campaign to bring a City Year program to Long Island.

This year's winners, chosen by a panel of HP and City Year representatives, each received an HP notebook computer and a recognition plaque at the national City Year conference of idealism in Boston.

This year, the five recipients are:

• Owen Stearns (Cambridge, Mass.) for mobilizing a team of concerned Boston educators in the founding of the Excel Academy Charter School, a tuition-free, public middle school designed to improve test scores and provide improved educational opportunities for low-income middle school students.
• Hamilton Simons-Jones (New Orleans) for establishing a successful community service program at Tulane University. His contributions include founding multiple community service programs, including Rally for New Orleans Public Schools, Outreach Tulane and the Book Giving Tree.
• Rebeca Nieves-Huffman (Washington) for her exceptional contribution as President of the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, through which she has gained national recognition for the organization that works to improve educational outcomes for Hispanic children by empowering families through parental choice in education.
• Lourdes Barroso (Roslindale, Mass.) for her leadership efforts in starting four different City Year sites in Columbus, Ohio, San Antonio, Cleveland and Boston, for which she led the development, implementation and management of recruitment plans, service programs and training workshops.
• Debra-Ellen Glickstein (Long Island City, N.Y.) for her inspirational effort and devotion to bring City Year to Long Island, for which she organized a "New York City's National Service Day," bringing out more than 200 volunteers, and mobilized local leaders and potential school partners in support.

"These five exceptional young adults have taken their City Year experiences and applied them to the development of community initiatives that are improving people's lives," said Lew Karabatsos, director of philanthropy operations, Philanthropy and Education, HP. "They embody the determination and innovation that makes our communities strong across the country and around the world, and HP is proud to honor their work."

"City Year alumni are continuing to serve and lead in communities, and HP is recognizing their contributions and encouraging their great work by empowering them with state-of-the-art HP equipment," said Michael Brown, president and co-founder, City Year. "Like City Year, HP believes in the power of young people to make powerful civic change. We are deeply grateful for HP's support of our extraordinary alumni."

More information about HP's philanthropy and education programs is available at www.hp.com/go/grants.

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HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2004, HP revenue totaled $76.8 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.