HHSAA Board Election Results
The election of board members for the Hobart High School Alumni Association was held from June 1 to June 15. The complete slate of members and officers, listed below, have been re-elected to a two year term, beginning August 1. Thanks to all HHSAA members who voted.
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, Class of 2006, Dean of Students, Hobart High School
Beth Scott Barney, Class of 1970
Debbie Scharbach Vega, Class of 1971
Our Scholarship Winners for 2022
The recipients of the 2022 Hobart High School Alumni Association are seniors Meghan Horn and Alex Pickett. Meghan will be studying Political Science at Indiana University, and Alex will be studying Sports Management at Trine University. Both wrote an essay "What It Means to Be a Brickie" as part of their scholarship applications. On Wednesday, May 11, the HHSAA board treated Meghan and Alex and their families to dinner at the Paragon Restaurant.
Scholarship winners with the HHSAA board. Left to right: Lynn Kostbade,
Debbie Vega, Alex Pickett, Meghan Horn, Tracy McCullough, Paul Addison,
Beth Barney, and Debra Opolski.
New: Class of 1959 Luncheon Reservation Sheet
Here is the new reservation sheet for the Hobart High School Class of 1959 Reunion Luncheon. Please print it, fill it out, and mail it with your check to: Millie (Glusac) Hovanec, 1963 E. 69th Ave., Merrillville, IN 46410, Cell: 219-252-2893.
You can see all upcoming class reunions (that we know about) by clicking Class Reunions in the menu, or clicking this link: https://www.hobartalumni.org/ClassReunions.htm.
Cody Johnston Featured in NWI Times
Cody Johnston (Class of 2023), son of Jim Johnston, Jr. (1980) and grandson of Jim "JJ" Johnston (1954) is featured in an article in the Northwest Indiana Times. Here is the link to the article: https://www.nwitimes.com/
(Photo credit: John J. Watkins, The Times)
Popes are Winners at Carmel Marathon
Five members of the Pope family were in Indiana on Saturday, April 9, to run in (or watch) the Carmel Marathon. Ellen Pope '69 and Bud Pope ’74 both took first place in their age categories, quote a feat, considering that they ran in snow, hail, and wind. Siblings MaryAnne (Pope) Bryan ‘63, Sharon Pope ‘65, and Nancy Pope ‘72 cheered them on. Here are some photos:
Above: (L) Carmel Marathon winners Bud and Ellen Pope. (R) Nancy Gauder, Sharon and Nancy Pope cheer them on.
Below: MaryAnne (Pope) Bryan, Ellen, Sharon, Nancy, and Bud Pope.
Order Your Brickie Window Clings!
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 the HHS 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 the HHS 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!
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.
Do You Have Class Reunion News to Share?
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!
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.
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.
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.