Meet Our Scholarship Winners at
the HHSAA Dinner Meeting on May 19!

The HHS Alumni Association Dinner Meeting is back! For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, we are inviting all members of the HHS Alumni Association to join us for our membership meeting. It will be held on Monday, May 19 at 6:00 pm at the Paragon Restaurant in Hobart, and the cost is $15 per person. Come and meet our 2025 scholarship winners!

The family-style menu includes: roast chicken, roast beef, mashed potatoes, rice, green beans, salad, vanilla ice cream, coffee, tea, and soft drinks.

To RSVP, go to our April 2025 newsletter, print the first page, and cut off the RSVP form at the bottom. Send it with your check made out to HHS Alumni Association, and mail it to: HHSA, PO Box 68, Hobart, IN 46342. Reservations are due by Monday, May 12.

Hobart High School Band Program to Celebrate
100 Years with a Concert on May 15

The Hobart High School Band program was started in 1925 by William Revelli. Within just a few years, it was winning national championships.

Hobart Bands will celebrate its 100th anniversary on Thursday, May 15, with a concert. Alumni are invited to a reception at 5:30 pm in the Great Hall. The concert will follow at 6:30 in the Auditorium. Alumni, please RSVP for the reception by emailing hobarthsbands@gmail.com. And it you have pictures to share, please email them when you RSVP.

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)

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.)
 

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.

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