Jim Hogan (outdoor educator)

James Martin Hogan is primarily known as co-founder of the worldwide Outward Bound movement of outdoor adventure education schools, along with Kurt Hahn and Lawrence Durning Holt, having been the first warden of the sea school - the first Outward Bound school - established in Aberdovey, Wales by Holt to train crews of his Blue Funnel Line.^[1][2] Hogan has been credited with choosing the now-famous Outward Bound motto: "To serve, to strive, and not to yield."^[3] Hogan was a Boy Scout leader and Wood Badge holder.^[4]

References

1. Hogan was succeeded at the first OB school by its second warden Freddie Fuller.
2. Birth of Outward Bound
3. OB motto
4. James Martin Hogan and Outward Bound should not be confused with Irish science fiction writer James Patrick Hogan (1941-2010) and his science fiction novel Outward Bound (1999).

Bibliography

• Hogan, James Martin, Impelled Into Experiences: the story of the Outward Bound schools, Educational Productions, 1968. ISBN 0715803905. ISBN 978-0715803905.
• Richards, Anthony, The Genesis of Outward Bound.
• Wagstaff, Mark, A History of Challenge Courses.
• Zelinski, Mark, 1991, Outward Bound: The Inward Odyssey, Hillsboro, Oregon: Beyond Words.