Brickies Come Together at BrickieFest 2024!
An estimated 70-80 people attended the BrickieFest Homecoming Picnic on Saturday, September 21. The weather cooperated, and Brickies of all ages enjoyed hot dogs, brats, water, cookies, and chips provided by the Hobart High School Alumni Association. Coming off a Homecoming football game win (see article below), the BrickieFest celebration was especially joyous. Thanks to all who came! Here are some pictures.
Attendees at BrickieFest 2024, and (above right) a cornhole game.
Classmates from 1970 (below left) and 1971 (below right).
HHSAA Board (below left). Amanda Stillwell and Debbie Vega hawk merchandise (below right).
(Pictures by Michael Vega)
Classmates From 1962 Celebrate their Octogenarian Year!
Band members from the HHS Class of 1962 at their 80th birthday party: Mark Pflughoeft, Susie Mair Pflughoeft, Susan Berg
Davis, Doug Davis, Carl Carlisle, Carol Homan Erny, Mr, Brandon Dinkins, Ms. Kelly Rehlander; Ms. LaurenTeyki. Mark, Doug,
and Carl played in a rehearsal with the HHS band.
Hobart Alumna Gloria Morris Featured For
Raising Awareness of Ovarian Cancer
Gloria Morris (nee Simpson), Class of 1989, was featured in this NW Indiana Times article for her admrable efforts in educating women about ovarian cancer.
HHSAA Board Re-elected to 2-Year Term
The votes have been counted, and the complete slate of board members of the HHS Alumni Association has been re-elected to a 2-year term beginning today, July 1. To recap, here is the list of board members:
OFFICERS
Paul Addison, Class of 1970 (President)
Lynn Sheets Kostbade, Class of 1966 (Vice-President)
Debra Broker Opolski, Class of 1970 (Treasurer)
Tracy Estabrook McCullough, Class of 1978 (Secretary)
AT-LARGE MEMBERS
Shaun Zoladz, Dean of Students, Hobart High School, Class of 2006
Beth Scott Barney, Class of 1970
Debbie Scharbach Vega, Class of 1971
Amanda Loy Stillwell, Class of 2000
Teachers, Join the Website!
Our new Current and Retired Teachers page on this website lists the names of nearly 300 teachers, past and present. We'd like to invite all teachers to register for free. Registering on the website allows you to read and share profile information with other HHS alumni.
Alumni, you can help by doing the following:
• Asking your teacher friends to join
• Sending us (to info@hobartalumni.org) the names of any teachers you know who are living, but are not on the list
• Sending us (to info@hobartalumni.org) the names of any deceased teachers on the list, so that we can move their names to the All Teachers page, which includes living and deceased teachers
Teachers, here's what to do, if you haven't already registered:
• On this website, select Current and Retired Teachers.
• If you find your name, click the link to go to the JOIN HERE page. In addition to your preferred email address, you just need to select a password. We also invite you to share profile information, such as the years you taught at Hobart, what subjects you taught, and anything else you’d like to share with other Hobart alumni.
• If you do NOT find your name, click on the Contact Us link, enter your name and email address, then enter “Teacher: please add me” as the subject. You can skip Regarding Year, and the message is optional. Send it, and we’ll add your name to the Current and Retired Teachers page, and then we will email you so that you know you can register on the website.
Please notice that there is a difference between registering on the website, which is free, and joining the HHS Alumni Association as a supporting member. This project is about registering on the website. which lets you read the profiles of other alumni who have registered. Otherwise, you can only find their names.
(For alumni who are not teachers, if you haven't already registered, select Classmate Profiles and search for your name. If it is there, it will take you to the JOIN HERE page, and if not, click the Contact Us link, and give us your name and class year. We will add you to the alumni roster and email you so that you can register.)
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.
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 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.