Hobart High School Alumni Association, Inc.
The Official Website of the HHS Alumni Association
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PROFILE UPDATES
| • | Lynn Fife (Smith) (1966) 5/22 |
| • | Daniela Alanis (2016) 5/21 |
| • | Tyrus Joseforsky (2014) 5/21 |
| • | Marisa Butkiewicz (2016) 5/21 |
| • | David Knocke (1967) 5/18 |
| • | Walter Johnston (1972) 5/17 |
| • | Paul Kainrath (1980) 5/14 |
| • | Jacob Janiszewski (Janiszewski) (2014) 5/14 |
| • | Jeaneane Hook (Landers) (1980) 5/14 |
| • | Phil Grasser (1986) 5/12 |
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WHERE WE LIVE
Who lives where - click links below to find out.
19 live in Alabama
3 live in Alaska
63 live in Arizona
8 live in Arkansas
65 live in California
27 live in Colorado
3 live in Connecticut
1 lives in Delaware
142 live in Florida
40 live in Georgia
4 live in Idaho
75 live in Illinois
1,065 live in Indiana
1 lives in Iowa
11 live in Kansas
22 live in Kentucky
5 live in Louisiana
7 live in Maryland
7 live in Massachusetts
36 live in Michigan
18 live in Minnesota
3 live in Mississippi
20 live in Missouri
2 live in Montana
2 live in Nebraska
10 live in Nevada
1 lives in New Hampshire
4 live in New Jersey
5 live in New Mexico
9 live in New York
27 live in North Carolina
1 lives in North Dakota
27 live in Ohio
3 live in Oklahoma
14 live in Oregon
13 live in Pennsylvania
13 live in South Carolina
1 lives in South Dakota
32 live in Tennessee
55 live in Texas
3 live in Utah
1 lives in Vermont
18 live in Virginia
23 live in Washington
2 live in West Virginia
18 live in Wisconsin
1 lives in Ontario
1 lives in Albania
1 lives in France
4 live in Germany
1 lives in New Zealand
1 lives in Spain
1 lives in Thailand
1 lives in United Kingdom
12,700 location unknown
John Mattix Speaks on "The Mattix/Hobart Legacy"
John Mattix, Class of 1963 and Hobart High School football standout, was the guest speaker at the Hobart High School Annual Dinner Meeting on Friday, May 4, in the Great Hall at Hobart High School. Over 50 people attended the meeting.
[For more pictures, click on "Annual Meeting 2018 Photos" at the left. Then click on the first picture to start the slideshow.]
John's talk was titled "The Mattix/Hobart Legacy". He talked about his football experience at Hobart High School, and his place in the well-known Mattix family. He talked about how he always felt "competent, not extraordinary", and yet, as Billy Joel once said, in a world of incompetence, that makes you extraordinary. He related experiences in which he and others could hear the voices of teachers and coaches telling him to be prepared, try again and try harder, and that sometimes you have to call another play.
The HHS Alumni Association announced the recipients of the 2018 scholarships, seniors Calynn Drobac and Cade Brumley. Board members for the next two years were elected: Paul Addison (President), Lynn Kostbade (Vice President), Tracy McCullough (Secretary) and Debra Opolski (Treasurer). Entertainment was provided by Dean Wolff's talented singing group Wolffgang, joined by an Elvis impersonator for the last three songs (see above left picture).
Thanks to all who attended, and to all who support Hobart High School and the Alumni Association!
The Mattix family today: Josie, Bob, John and Dave in the back row,
and Lori Lencheck and Connie Mattix in front.
Phone: 219-427-7991
Email: albert@artofal.com
Website: http://artofal.com
George Murchek, Bill Guinee, Rich Dydra, Dave Strickley, Mike Stewart, Trina Casiano, Krissy Jaskulski, Jason and Hal Back, Tonya and Rick Fugate, Angela, Joey and Brian Frank, Cindy, Drissy, Doug and Roger Carpenter, Chris Chrisman, Ronald De Luna, Juan Gomez, Jesse Bonner, Chris Topping, Kevin Newcomb, Rick Knoght, Jesse Venegas, Matt Roper, Tom Witek, Mary Ellen Witek, Billy Rusbasan, and Matthew Burns.
BrickieFest Homecoming Picnic Set For
Saturday, September 15 at the Brickyard
Mark your calendars for September 15! The all-class BrickieFest Picnic will be held on Saturday of Hobart’s Homecoming Football weekend, from 12 noon to 3:00 pm, and this year’s picnic will be at the Brickyard (the football stadium behind Hobart High School on East 10th Street).
All alumni are invited to the picnic! Hot dogs, brats, chips and bottled water will be served free of charge by the HHS Alumni Association.
The Homecoming football game will be on Friday evening, September 14, against Andrean High School. The game starts at 7:00. Come for the weekend: cheer on the Brickies on Friday night, and meet your friends at the BrickieFest picnic on Saturday!
All-Class Reunion in Lakeland, Florida is a Big Hit!
(Top: Magician Rondal Shumate amazes Mike Roque, who found his $20 bill inside a lemon. Above: Paul and Ruth Throne, Tom and Maryann Kerr, Gail and John Mattix, and Linda and Mike Roque. Thanks to Linda for the pictures!)
Classes of 1972 and 1973 Will Hold a Joint
Reunion (September 15, 2018)
Save the date! The classes of 1972 and 1973 will combine their reunion this fall, during Hobart High School's Homecoming weekend.
The reunion will be September 15, 2018 at Hobart American Legion Post 54, 208 S Linda, Hobart. Cocktails at 6:00 with cash bar. Dinner at 7. Cost will be $20 each person. Please contact Leigh Huminsky, 219-942-5721 or send payment to Leigh Huminsky, 106 N. Illinois St., Hobart, IN 46342.
Alumni Return on Homecoming Weekend
to Play in the Alumni Band Concert
Band alumni who played in Saturday's concert included Jim Kursch, Tom Ford, Linda (spouse) and Greg Heuer, Les Brooks, Sue Thompson Miller and Carol Worthington Schickel.
Over a dozen alumni of the Hobart High School Bands program returned to Hobart on Saturday, October 7, to play in the Alumni Band Concert, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the band's performance at the Midwest Band Clinic. The band, supplemented by current HHS band members, played two numbers from the Midwest concert, the "Walt Disney Overture" (conducted by Paul Addison) and "Third Suite" (conducted by HHS Band Director Brian Grenier).
The band listens to alumna Carol Worthington Schickel talk about the Midwest Band Clinic and her experience in the Hobart Bands program.
Dinner was served to the band members between the rehearsal and the concert by the Hobart Band Boosters, and the concert was followed by a light reception sponsored by the Hobart High School Alumni Association. Thanks to all who came, and keep your eye on this website as we approach the 100th anniversary of the Hobart Bands program, which is just eight years away!
Paul Throne is Honored at the Football
Game and the BrickieFest Picnic
Coach Paul Throne, who has announced that he and his wife Ruth will be moving to Florida in early October, was honored at two events during the weekend of September 22 and 23.
He is shown here at halftime of the football game against Kankakee Valley on Friday, September 22. (This photo was obtained from the NW Indiana Times.)
Paul and Ruth also attended the BrickieFest Picnic on Saturday, September 23 at Brickie Bowl. The Picnic ran from 12 noon to 3 pm, and Coach Throne was there from 1:00 to 3:00. Hot dogs, brats, chips and bottled water were provided by the HHS Alumni Association. About 50-60 people attended, many from the Class of 1967, in Hobart for the weekend to celebrate their 50th year class reunion.
Temperatures rivaled the first BrickieFest, held in July of 2011. It was 95 degrees on that day in 2011, but it was 92 degrees in the shade this past Saturday. We had to set up in the southeast corner of Brickie Bowl just to get any shade!
Thanks to all who attended BrickieFest 2017!
Classmate Obituary Information Welcome
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.
Freshen Up with a Yohan
Air Freshener!
The Hobart High School Alumni Association is selling these vanilla-scented air fresheners. They are $3 each, or 2 for $5.
Freshen up your car or your home with a Yohan air freshener!
To order, contact Holli Kostbade, HHSAA President, at kostbade3@comcast.net.
Do You Have Class Reunion News to Share?
If your class is having a reunion later this year, or in 2017, it'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!
Listen to What Was Playing When
YOU Were in High School
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?
Yearbooks Available Online from the
Lake County Public Library
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.
Survey Results for Redesigning the HHSAA
Website to Include Smartphones
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%)
Yes, We Have a Facebook Page!
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.
"Once a Brickie, Always a Brickie": Order Yours!
The long-awaited book by Paul Condry, "Once a Brickie, Always a Brickie: The History of Hobart Football", has been published and is available to order. It is an amazingly thorough book, covering every season from 1927 to 2014, complete with rosters, scores, hundreds of photos, and loads of personal stories. At $35, this is a fabulous bargain that no Brickie should miss.
Follow Us On Twitter!
If you have a Twitter account, we invite you to follow us @hobartalumni. We will not bombard you with announcements, but we will keep you up to date on upcoming class reunions and other events.
Once Again: Don't Confuse Us
with www.AlumniClass.com!
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!
Welcome to the HHSAA Website!
The HHS Alumni 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, PO Box 68, Hobart, IN 46342-0068. 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.
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