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Hobart High School Alumni Association, Inc. The Official Website of the HHS Alumni Association Registering on this website is free. Just click Classmate Profiles, find your name, and create your profile. If you don t find your name, you can send us an email, and we will add your name to the roster.However, this site is sponsored by the Hobart High School Alumni Association. We are a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, dedicated to supporting Hobart High School and its alumni. If you would like to join the HHSAA, your donation of $10 or moreentitles you to membership, and istax-deductible. Lifetime memberships are now available for $100 per person.You can find out more about us by clicking the HHS Alumni Association link at the left. You are under no obligation to become a member of the HHSAA.Your donation to the HHSAlumni Association will help provide scholarships to HHS students, Hobart alumni going back to school, and professional development grants for HHSteachers. Memberships are on a calendar year basis, but new and renewed memberships on or after Homecoming weekend run until December 31 of the following year.We encourage you to send a check, made out to Hobart High School Alumni Association, to us at: HHS Alumni Association, PO Box 68, Hobart, IN 46342. Your membership is $10 (or $100 for a lifetime membership).If you don t send a check, you can use this Donate button below to pay with your PayPal account, or with your credit card. (We prefer the PayPal account; otherwise, we have to pay a fee.)Your $10 donation entitles you to Full Membership with voting rights, and you will receive our newsletter, The Brick-and-Mortar Board, by email. You will also be emailed a colorful certificate of membership, suitable for framing. Thank you!This year is the 175th anniversary of the Hobart School System. (The first schoolbuilding was built in 1845 where the Masonic Temple stands today.)The Hobart Historical Society is looking for stories of your school experiences, whether as a student or teacher. The stories could be of your favorite/least favorite teacher, a funny incident in science class, shenanigans on a field trip, how you got caught skipping school to go to the beach, or even how you met your spouse in English class. It could be something from elementary school, middle, junior high, or high school. It doesn t matter if you graduated in 1941 or 2019. They want your stories! If they get enough stories, they will be published in a book celebrating this important event.Send them to: Hobart Historical Society, P.O Box 24, Hobart, IN 46342-0024.NOTE: Our HHSAA newsletter has a feature called Your Brickie Stories. If you would like your stories printed in ournewsletter, send them to paul@hobartalumni.org.Barb Phillips Rowley of the HHS Class of 1965 has informed us that their reunion for August 22 has been canceled, and has been rescheduled for August 21, 2021.Click here, or click at the left on HHSAA Newsletters, and then click on the top link. Our May 2020 edition ofThe Brick Mortar Board, the newsletter of the HHS Alumni Association, has been published. This issue includes: We announce our 2020 scholarship winners, and launch a 10th anniversary Scholarship Campaign. The Annual Dinner Meeting is canceled, but paid members of the HHSAA will receive a ballot in a week for the election of board members and officers. Our Alumni Spotlight is on Jim Dagenais, Class of 1961, who served as a corrections officer in California and Afghanistan. The HHSAA all-class Homecoming Picnic is still scheduled for Saturday, September 26, at Festival Park. And all the regular features: Your Brickie Stories, Class Reunion Roundup, New and Renewed Members, and Recent Obituaries, which link to the website.Annual Dinner Meeting Canceled for 2020There will be no Annual Dinner Meeting of the Hobart High School Alumni Association for this year. The meeting was originally scheduled for Friday, May 8, but with schools being closed until the end of the school year, and the stay-at-home order, all due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the meeting will not be possible at that time. And because nobody knows now how long the situation will last, rescheduling can not be done at this time, either.The election of board members and officers normally takes place at the Annual Meeting, so this year, ballots will be emailed to paid members of the HHS Alumni Association (and sent by regular mail to those who do not use email). Those ballots will be sent out on or about May 8, the original date for the meeting.We have also awarded scholarships to HHS seniors at the Annual Meeting. Those scholarships will still be awarded, and the recipients will be announced in our next newsletter as soon as they are chosen. Applications are still coming in, and the committee will meet promptly after they are all received, and make the decisions as soon as possible.We hope you still have Saturday, September 26 marked on your calendar for the HHSAA Homecoming Picnic at Festival Park. That event is still scheduled, and we all hope people will be able to gather together again. Keep an eye on this website for further information.Keep safe and keep healthy!Would you go to the In Memory pages for the Class of 1959. You can click In Memory at the left, and select Graduating Year: 1959 , or just use this link:http://www.hobartalumni.org/class_inmemory.cfm?year_id=1959 inmemory_default_sort=0 yp=. Near the bottom, there are a number of classmates for whom the year deceased is missing, and in some cases where the year is known, there is no more information than that.If you have any information on classmates who have passed, would you send it to Deanna Maxwell Kwasny atkwas1@comcast.net. It would be greatly appreciated.John Mattix has sent the following information about the 2021 All-Class Reunion, as the group at this year s reunion voted to change the date and the venue:The 2021 Reunion will be held at:The Manatee Recreation Center in The Villages, FL.1512 Hillsborough TrailThe Villages, FL 32163The date is February 20th, 2021; and it will run from 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM. The actual time of the banquet will run to about 3:30 PM, allowing time for cleanup.The cost per person has not been determined, as a caterer has not been selected. I also must decide if the caterer will provide a cash bar; or if it will be BYOB. We are moving it back the start time an hour from 11:30 AM to 12:30 to allow attendees more time to arrive, as it is farther for some to drive!I know this is an early notification; but this is a significant change from the past; and it s what the attendees at the last Reunion voted on. If anyone has any questions they can contact me.JohnMattix215-514-1582hoosier_1968@hotmail.comSnowbirds and Others Flock to Lakeland,Florida, for the 2020 All-Class ReunionStanding: Kevin Fenwick (1970), Mark Haller (1971), Dave Smythe (1970). Seated: Paula Freeville Luedtke (1970), Patty Brown Helminski (1971), Mitch Gowan (1970).Standing: Debbie Guernsey Jenkins (1973), Claudia Shurr Smythe (1972), Elaine Booten Haller (1972). Seated: Roger Jenkins, Renee Rippe Denault (1974), Lori Williams (1974), Valerie Fedorchak Esserman (1972).John Mattix (standing) and Paul Throne.ofthe Yearby the Post-TribuneThe Post-Tribune has named Hobart Brickie Head Football Coach Craig Osika as the 2019 Coach of the Year. Click here for the article. Nice going, Coach Osika!Congratulations, Coach Osika,on an Amazing Football Season!The Hobart Brickies winning streak and chance for the state title ended Friday night with a 29-24 loss to the East Noble Knights. However, it was a fantastic season under second-year coach Craig Osika, with the Brickies winning 11games in a row and going all the way to the semistate game. Congratulations, Coach!Read the full storyin the NW Indiana Times.It was a stroke of good fortune that we held the all-class Homecoming Picnic known as BrickieFest , on Saturday, October 12at the Hobart Community Center. While it was chilly outside, it was just right inside!Hot dogs, brats, burgers and bottled water were served free of charge by the Hobart High School Alumni Association. Several people from the classes of 1964 and 1974 were present, as they also had their own class reunions that weekend.Here are some pictures from the picnic. Thanks to all who came!Please read this message from Sarah Jennings. If you know how she might be able to get an identical ring for her grandmother, please contact her atsarahgracejennings1615@gmail.com.Hello, my grandma would have graduated in 1961, through the course of her life she lost her class ring. It is my hope to be able to find out what this ring could have looked like. I would appreciate any help someone could be. She always regretted not graduating but turned out to be a wonderful wife mother grandmother and now great grandmother. Having this ring would thrill her. Her maiden name was Grace Roll. She quit school just before her senior year.Joe Clemmons, Brickie football player, co-captain and coach, spoke at the 8th Annual Dinner Meeting of the Hobart High School Alumni Association, about what it means to be a Brickie. Through the encouragement of many coaches and teachers (including Tom Kerr, Don Howell and Kathy Throne Cox), and lots of hard work, Joe became the kind of person he saw in those coaches and teachers. He is a 17-year member of the Hobart Police Department (following in his father s footsteps), and was recently elected to the Board of Hobart Township.Beth Scott Barney (Class of 1970) was elected to join the HHSAA board.Current board members, in the middle of two-year terms, are Paul Addison (President), Lynn Sheets Kostbade (Vice-President), Tracy Estabrook (Secretary), Debra Broker Opolski (Treasurer), Craig Osika (Dean of Students), Holli Smith Kostbade (at large), and student members Lily Kolross, Audree Vann, and James Corgan.Seniors Lily Kolross and Max Salazar were awarded $500 scholarships and read their paragraphs from their scholarship applications on What it Means to Be a Brickie .Thanks to all who attended!Looking for a gift for your newly-graduated Brickie?You can get Hobart High School window clings for $3 each, or two for $5, by sending your check, made payable to theHHS Alumni Association, to Lynn Kostbade,410 N. Joliet Street, Hobart, IN 46342.Another great idea is a lifetime membership to the HHS Alumni Association, for $100. Send your check, made payable to theHHS Alumni Association, to HHSAA, PO Box 68, Hobart, IN 46342. Please include the name, addresss, email address and graduating class of your lucky lifetime Brickie!Hobart High School alumnus Ethan Smith (Class of 2009) was featured in Indianapolis news media for helping an elderly man by pushing him several blocks in his wheelchair after it had broken down. Shortly thereafter, the Bally Foundation provided the man with a new power wheelchair.Indianapolis Police Officer Ethan Smith (HHS Class of2009)pushesaman whose wheelchair broke down.(Photo obtainedfrom the IndyChannel website.)You can read the whole story at:https://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/impd-officers-go-above-and-beyond-to-help-man-with-broken-wheelchair.Rest in Peace, Karen Anders. She and Husband JoeWorked at the Art Theatre for Over 50 Years[Posted with permission from the Hobart Art Theatre Facebook page]by Debby Anders EvansWith great sadness we announce the passing of Karen Anders. Although those who knew Karen and worked with her over the years we realize that this day is a happy day for Karen because she gets to be reunited with the love of her life Joe who passed away in 2011. This was a very long and loving reunion in the making. In 2001 I had the pleasure of being under the management of Joe and Karen when Mr. Prusiecki was not taking tickets. Joe would work upstairs as a projectionist and Karen would be downstairs greeting customers with a very friendly smile. Prior to my time at the theatre Joe and Karen had already spent over 50 years at the Art. The Art was a special place for the two of them. Not only was it where they worked. It was where they fell in love, made memories, and shaped the lives of the employees who had the honor working under them. In 2003 Joe and Karen retired. Even though they were retired that would not stop them from parking their green car in the back parking lot of the theater to watch the Ducks on the lake almost nightly during the summer. They would always ask for updates on how the theatre was doing and plans for the future of the Art. Joe and Karen completed their goals in life. True Love, Companionship, and Friendship. That is more than some can ever hope for.Joe Anders memorial page is at: http://www.hobartalumni.org/class_profile.cfm?member_id=7221130. Karen Anders memorial page is at: http://www.hobartalumni.org/class_profile.cfm?member_id=7214443.We do our best to keep up with listing obituaries for HHS alumni. We are able to find most obituaries that have the words Hobart High School in them, but many do not. If you come across any online obituary notice that is not posted in the Recent Obituaries page on this website by the time of the funeral, please send the link to me at info@hobartalumni.org, along with the classmate s year of graduation, if you know it, and I will post it right away.Thanks to Gorjean Quick, who just sent me several obituaries from the Class of 1963.If your class is having a reunion later this year, or in 2020it s not too early to start letting people know about it. Please email us at info@hobartalumni.org, or email me (Paul Addison) personally at paulhaddison@gmail.com. Let us know the class year, the date, time and place of your reunion (however much you know at this time), and the name of the person to contact for more information. Thanks!Click Class Reunions at the left to see all upcoming class reunion information, including future years.Do you remember the songs that were on the radio when you were in high school? Click on the What Was Playing link at the left, and you ll find YouTube links to five songs for every year going back to 1900! You may have heard them on the radio, at your class dances or prom, on the jukebox at Abbott s or Pete s, in your own room at home, or on YouTube or MTV!Thanks to Jennifer Eastwood Davis, Class of 1962, for compiling this extraordinary list! Because they are links to YouTube, Vimeo and the like, they often go out of date. We are doing our best to keep the list up to date with working links. If you find a link that doesn t work, please email us at info@hobartalumni.org, tell us what year and what song link isn t working, and we will try to fix it right away.Music can bring back lots of memories. What was playing when you were in high school?The Lake County Public Library has been digitizing Hobart High School yearbooks. Most of them from 1908 to the present are online. Click HHS Yearbooks Online at the left to access the collection. You don t need to register or log in, and you can save the yearbooks as PDF files.The HHS yearbook was called Aurorauntil 1946, when its name was changed to Memories.Thanks to all of you who responded to our survey about redesigning this website so that it will look good on smartphones and other mobile devices, and still look good on traditional desktops and laptops. The results show strong support for such a redesign. However, as webmaster, I have been reading comments from other sites who use Class Creator (who provides the programming services for this site), and there are still a few bugs to be worked out. Not all features of the site work correctly yet on all phones.So, we will wait a little while, as Class Creator fixes the few remaining problems, and then we will go ahead with the redesign. For those of you using desktops and laptops, there will be a minimum of changes to the way it looks for you.Here are the summary results to our survey questions:1) Do you have a smartphone that you use to access the Internet?Yes (83.3%), No (16.7%)2) If Yes to #1, have you ever tried to access the HHSAA website on a smartphone?Yes (30.0%), No (57.5%), N/A (12.5%)3) If Yes to #1, would you be likely to use a smartphone to access the HHSAA website if it were redesigned to look good on a smartphone?Yes (65.0%), No (17.5%), N/A (17.5%)4) Would you mind a few changes to the HHSAA website to make it look for everybody, if it meant that it would look good on a smartphone as well as a desktop, laptop or tablet?Yes, I would mind (9.5%), No, I wouldn t mind (90.5%)If you use Facebook, please visit our Facebook page. Just login to Facebook, and search for Hobart High School Alumni Association, or paste this into your browser address bar: https://www.facebook.com/hohighalumni/Facebook is frankly much better suited for classmates talking to each other than this website is. There is a Message Center on this website, but it requires notifying the other person by email, and they have to come back and login here to get the message. Facebook is just quicker.Plus, you ll get news about special events on the Facebook page, as well as here.Several people have joined the website at www.alumniclass.com, and some have even paid $10 for it! That website is for selling merchandise (not that there s anything wrong with that), but that is not the Hobart High School Alumni Association site. This one is!Our site costs nothing to register. In fact, you can see everything except classmate profile information (email addresses and regular addresses) without signing in at all.You won t get news of HHS alumni activities on the other site. They have no affiliation with Hobart High School or the HHS Alumni Association. Be sure to stay tuned at www.hobartalumni.org!The HHSAlumni Association raises funds for scholarships! We awarded one scholarship at our first HHSAA annual meeting in April 2012, and have awarded two or more at every annual meeting since. Donations for scholarships are tax-deductible and can be mailed to:HHS Alumni Association, POBox 68, Hobart, IN46342-0068. Write Scholarship Fund in the memo line. Thanks!Do You Share An Email Address? If you share an email address with another HHS alum, you can use the same email address as your login, as long as you have a separate password! Remember, your Primary Email Address is your username to login.Do You Have a Profile on the AlumniClass.com Website? That s Not Our Site!Many of you have a profile on a website called AlumniClass.com (www.alumniclass.com). If you look at the bottom of their page, you will see this disclaimer: This Site is independent of and has no association with any school, school district, or web site. Linking from the HHS site: Recently, the Hobart High School website (www.hobart.k12.in.us) changed its Alumni link from the AlumniClass.com website to this one. If you created a profile on that website, it is still there, but please be reminded that AlumniClass.com is not the real Hobart High School Alumni Association. Our apologies for any confusion.Are You Getting Annoying Emails?If you are receiving email notifications from this site about people who have registered or changed their name, you may be subscribed to their profiles without meaning to. Just click on Notify Me at the left, then under Profile Subscriptions, check Unsubscribe From All Profiles In All Years. That should take care of it. Welcome!Everyone who ever attended, taught at, or worked at Hobart (Indiana) High School is invited to join BrickieFest.CLASSREUNIONCOORDINATORS, or anyone with your senior yearbook: Please contact me at info@hobartalumni.org or paulhaddison@gmail.com and send me the year of your class, and the names of all known classmates. Please note any classmates that you know are deceased, so that we can mark them for the In Memory page. The only way to register classmates on this site is for us to have their names and years first.CLASSMATES: Click Classmate Profiles. If your year is listed, click on it and search for your name. Otherwise, click on Year Unknown. If your name has not been loaded yet, clickContact Us. Just send me your NAME and YEAR of graduation. I will add your name to the list, and you can set up your profile.TEACHERSANDSTAFF: If you have ever taught or worked at Hobart High School, but did not attend as a student, click on Classmate Profiles, Year Unknown, and send me your name, email, your position and years taught or worked. I will add your name to the list.We want to get all HHS alumni, teachers and staff registered on this site!Thanks,Paul Addison (coordinator) If you have a link to an obituary for a deceased classmate, please send it to me (paulhaddison@gmail.com), and I will post it on the In Memory page for that classmate. Same thing with pictures: I ll post them on the classmate s In Memory page. You can always go to a classmate s page and add comments or tributes.My thanks to Jennifer Eastwood Davis (Class of 1962), for sending me links to obituaries for well over 100 classmates! Privacy concerns: There is an option that you can select in your profile that says that only registered classmates can view your profile details. We recommend that you select that option. This site is exclusively for Hobart High School alumni. PHOTOSIZESPlease keep your photos to a reasonable size, say 100 Kb or less. We expect thousands of people on this web site. Thanks!

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