Skip O'Brien became a member of the Anderson Lions Club in August 1983 and has served in virtually every office of the club, sometimes twice. He was Lassen Region Central Zone (Anderson, Cottonwood, Enterprise, Lakehead, Palo Cedro, Redding Breakfast, Redding Host, and Shasta Lake) Chairman in 1986-87 and Deputy District Governor in 1987-88, when the Region included what is now the South Butte East Zone. He again served as a Zone Chair, this time for the Lassen Region, South Zone in 2003-04. Lion Skip has served on the Camp McCumber Board of Directors; 4-C1 Lions Diabetes Association; Long Range Planning Committee; 4-C1 Humanitarian Foundation from 1996-98, as Secretary; is currently a member of the Membership, Extension, Retention, Leadership, and Oriention Team; and is again on the 4-C1 Humanitarian Foundation as Treasurer. In 2002 he received the Multiple District Four Excellence Award. He was presented with the Lions Clubs International Leadership Medal by President Kay K. Fukushima at the MD Four Convention at Reno in February 2003. What a rush!
He was nominated by the Anderson Lions for District Lion of the Year and received that award at the district convention at Konocti in April 2005. In February of 2006 the club nominated him for the office of Vice District Governor... he was unopposed and elected at the Ashland, OR Convention in April

San Francisco is where he was born. Raised in Menlo Park, he attended Menlo-Atherton High School. He joined the Navy upon graduation and served as a Radarman aboard a destroyer. He returned to the Bay Area and attended College of San Mateo and worked at various jobs until taking a position with Round Table Pizza in 1966. Building pizza won out over education and Skip eventually had his own franchise until selling his share in 1984. Since then he's dabbled in carpet cleaning, sign making and spent 14 years in customer service with a Redding petroleum jobber. During that time he developed a motto: "This job would be great... if it wasn't for the customers!"

Skip is married to his best friend and current wife, Sharon. Between them they have five adult children and seven grandchildren strategically situated from Sacramento to Bremerton, Washington.

Skip spends his spare time "messing" around on the computer, wishing that he could play golf and pretending to be too busy to keep up with household tasks. Skip is a member of the Board of Directors for the Frontier Senior Center in Anderson, a member of the Redding Daybreakers Toasmasters Club in Redding and reflects almost daily on opportunities missed.

His current motto is: "If today is the first day of the rest of my life; they can't expect too much on the first day."
His motto may change to "What Was I Thinking?