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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 more entitles you to membership, and is tax-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 HHS Alumni Association will help provide scholarships to HHS students, Hobart alumni going back to school, and professional development grants for HHS teachers. Memberships are on a calendar year basis, but new and renewed memberships on or after Homecoming weekend run until December 31 of 2016.

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!


PROFILE UPDATES


•   Shari Ammer (Miller) (1977)  9/25
•   Diane Zorich (Cervantes) (1974)  9/25
•   David Bass (1974)  9/24
•   Robert Carter (1981)  9/24
•   Donna Wood (Gietl) (1965)  9/24
•   April Barbera (Peek) (1997)  9/23
•   Bill Fraze (1988)  9/21
•   Roseanne Hile (Jackson) (1970)  9/18
•   Annette Tyre (Allen) (1970)  9/15
•   Janice Murphy (Rackauskas) (1959)  9/10
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WHERE WE LIVE


Who lives where - click links below to find out.

19 live in Alabama
3 live in Alaska
60 live in Arizona
7 live in Arkansas
59 live in California
27 live in Colorado
4 live in Connecticut
2 live in Delaware
131 live in Florida
36 live in Georgia
4 live in Idaho
74 live in Illinois
1,016 live in Indiana
1 lives in Iowa
10 live in Kansas
22 live in Kentucky
4 live in Louisiana
7 live in Maryland
5 live in Massachusetts
35 live in Michigan
13 live in Minnesota
3 live in Mississippi
18 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
23 live in North Carolina
1 lives in North Dakota
25 live in Ohio
3 live in Oklahoma
13 live in Oregon
11 live in Pennsylvania
11 live in South Carolina
1 lives in South Dakota
35 live in Tennessee
54 live in Texas
3 live in Utah
1 lives in Vermont
17 live in Virginia
21 live in Washington
2 live in West Virginia
17 live in Wisconsin
1 lives in Ontario
1 lives in Albania
1 lives in France
3 live in Germany
1 lives in New Zealand
1 lives in Spain
1 lives in Thailand
1 lives in United Kingdom
11,153 location unknown

BRICKIEFEST HOMECOMING PICNIC IS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 12 NOON TO 3 PM
AT BRICKIE BOWL: SEE YOU THERE!

This year's Homecoming Picnic is back at Brickie Bowl for the first time since the original BrickieFest in 2011. The Hobart High School Alumni Association will provide free hot dogs, brats and bottled water. You may bring a salad, side dish or dessert to share if you like, but you do not have to. The picnic starts at 12 noon on Saturday, October 8, and continues until 3:00 pm.

BrickieFest 2016 will be at the east end of Brickie Bowl (toward the Dust Bowl), and parking is available on the east side of the City building.

Why not make a weekend of it? On Friday, October 7, the Hobart Brickies take on Hammond Morton at 7:00 pm for the Homecoming football game. Come see the game, and stay for the picnic on Saturday. Some classes are holding their class reunion Saturday evening. Click Class Reunions at the left to see if your class is meeting that weekend.

See you at BrickieFest 2016!

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!
 
CLASS OF 1966 50th REUNION (October 8, 2016)
The Hobart High School Class of 1966 Reunion has been set for October 8, 2016.
Banquet Date: October 8, 2016
Place: Innsbrook Country Club, Merrillville, IN
There is a Facebook page for the reunion, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/110672482356112/945189998904352/?notif_t=group_activity. You will need to log into Facebook and join the group. Contact Sharon Wozniak Palmieri, sharonpalmeri@comcast.net, for more information.

CLASS OF 1982 35th REUNION (July 1, 2017)

Class of 1982: Our 35 year reunion will be July 1st, 2017 at the River Pointe Country Club in Hobart (the old Supervisor's Club).The charge will be $60 per person, and that includes the event on Friday night also. For more info, contact Connie Fourman, conniefourman@yahoo.com.
 
 

​HHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS
SCHOLARSHIPS, ELECTS BOARD MEMBERS,
AND LEARNS THE FUTURE OF BRICKIE BOWL
AT 2016 ANNUAL MEETING
 


Paul Addison presented scholarships to seniors David Kostbade and
Annabella Melvin at the HHS Annual Meeting on May 13.
 

About 70 Hobart High School alumni attended the 2016 Annual Meeting of the HHS Alumni Association, at the Great Hall of Hobart High School.

 
Seniors Annabella Melvin and David Kostbade were awarded $500 scholarships from the Alumni Association. Board members elected to 2-year terms were: Holli Kostbade (President), Paul Addison (Vice President), Debra Opolski (Treasurer), Lynn Heintz (Recording Secretary), Tracy McCullough (Corresponding Secretary), and Lynn Kostbade. Student members for the coming year are Danielle Hill (junior), Angelo Guarnero (senior), and Meredith Courteau (senior). Remaining on the board are Jane McDaniel and Tracy Brumley (Adminstrative Representative).
 
Tom Kerr spoke about the history of Brickie Bowl, and included the remarks that Paul Throne had prepared (Paul was unable to attend), mentioning three people who were crucial to the building of the Hobart football program: Frank Kurth, Russ Deal and Don Howell. Then, Lino Maggio talked about the "Bring Back Brickie Bowl" fundraiser which will take place next Saturday, May 21 from 3 pm to 11 pm. Brickie Bowl is being cleaned up and renovated, and will become a centerpiece for the revival of downtown Hobart. The Alumni Association is excited to announce that BrickieFest 2016 will be held during Homecoming Weekend on Saturday, October 8.
 
Thanks to all who attended!
 

LISTEN TO WHAT WAS PLAYING WHEN
YOU WERE AT HOBART 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 here to access the collection. You don't need to register or log in, and you can save the yearbooks as PDF files. More yearbooks are being added, so if you don't see yours yet, check back.
 
The HHS yearbook was called Aurora until 1946, when its name was changed to Memories.

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.

HOMECOMING PICNIC HELD IN GREAT WEATHER!

Homecoming Picnic 2015-1 Homecoming Picnic 2015-2
 
 
An estimated 120 people from all age groups and several graduating classes attended the fifth annual Hobart High School Alumni Association Homecoming Picnic on Saturday, September 26. The weather was beautiful and the location (Festival Park) was great. Hot dogs, brats and bottled water, along with cookies, cupcakes and chips were provided by the Hobart High School Alumni Association.
 
Thanks to all who came!
"ONCE A BRICKIE, ALWAYS A BRICKIE": ORDER YOURS!
Paul Addison holding "Once a Brickie, Always a Brickie"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.
 
Information on ordering this book can be found on the Hobart Brickie Football website, http://www.hobartbrickiefootball.com/.
 

 

WELCOME, CLASS OF 2015, TO THE HHSAA!

The HHSAA board voted last year to award one year of membership in the HHS Alumni Association to any graduating senior who wishes to join. From the Class of 2015, we have 153 new members! Of course, it costs nothing to register on this site and get all the news of HHS class reunions, but membership in the HHSAA supports scholarships for students and professional development for teachers, enabling you to give back to the school we love. Welcome, new members!

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
WWW.ALUMNICLASS.COM WITH THIS SITE!

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!

HOBART TO RECEIVE $50,000 FOR BRICKIE BOWL RENOVATION

The CIty of Hobart has been chosen to receive a $50,000 grant to renovate Brickie Bowl, site of hundreds of Hobart High School football games, and site of the first BrickieFest in 2011.

Read the complete story on the NW Indiana Times website.

 

 

WHAT ALUMNI EVENTS WOULD YOU LIKE?
LET US KNOW ON THE HHSAA BLOG!

Did you know we have a blog? We would like to know what kind of alumni events you would attend. Dances? Picnics? Let us know. The web address is http://hhsaa.blogspot.com/. Thanks!

WELCOME TO THE HHSAA WEBSITE!

The HHS Alumni Association is raising funds for scholarships! We awarded one scholarship at our first HHSAA Annual Meeting in April 2012, two more scholarships at our second Annual Meeting in April 2013, three in 2014, and another two in 2015! We plan to make more in the future, not just for HHS students but also for alumni going back to school. 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.
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Welcome! Everyone who ever attended, taught at, or worked at Hobart (Indiana) High School is invited to join BrickieFest.

CLASS REUNION COORDINATORS, 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, click Contact 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.

TEACHERS AND STAFF: 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)

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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!

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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.

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PHOTO SIZES
Please keep your photos to a reasonable size, say 100 Kb or less. We expect thousands of people on this web site. Thanks!