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With a theme of "Old Hollywood Glamour," Hinsdale Central's prom was held at Chicago's iconic Union Station, a perfect backdrop. After dinner and dancing, students celebrated under the stars with a cruise aboard the Odyssey Cruise Ship. Haley Casey, Noah Levine, Brielle Lynch and Akram Alothman head toward their buses before departing Central. Please turn to Page 32 for more pictures. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
For the third year in a row, Hinsdale High School District 86 Board members have disagreed about who should lead the board. In 2021, board members spent 2 1/2 hours and took 10 votes before electing Terri Walker president. In 2022, Erik Held was elected president in a split 4-3 vote. And last week, the board chose newly seated board member Cat Greenspon as its leader, with four members voting for her and three voting for Debbie Levinthal. Board member Peggy James nominated Greenspon at the May 3 reorganization meeting. Kay...
Pepper is a gentle soul and loves to cuddle with humans. She is dog friendly, house broken, loves walks, chasing squirrels and playing with her stuffies. She has been spayed and is up to date on her vaccinations. Her adoption fee is $300. The Hinsdale Humane Society Tuthill Family Pet Rescue & Resource Center is open to the public 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, noon to 6 p.m. Wednesdays to Fridays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Interested adopters are encouraged to fill out an online application at ww...
About 2.7 million youth are experiencing severe major depression. Sixty percent of youth with major depression do not receive mental health treatment. Some 1.2 million U.S. youth with private insurance do not have coverage for mental or emotional challenges. Hinsdale Central juniors Maya Menon, Moria Hughes and Kavya Ravi are working to do what they can to change those statistics. The Junior Board members at The Community House have been helping to plan the Walk the Walk for...
SENIOR EARNS MERIT AWARD Annika Geiersbach of Hinsdale, a senior at St. Ignatius College Prep, is one of 840 distinguished high school seniors who have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards. She has received the National Merit Boeing Scholarship. The National Merit Scholarship Corp. recently released the names of the first group of winners in the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Scholars were selected from students who advanced to the Finalist level in the National Merit Scholarship...
What has your teaching career taught you? Growing up in Willowbrook, Barbara Dawes was familiar with many of the schools in neighboring Hinsdale. But her childhood bike rides never reached The Lane School, so getting there for a job interview in the pre-GPS era proved a challenging assignment. "I almost passed it by," Dawes confessed. That was 34 years ago. On June 2, Dawes will dismiss her first-grade class for the final time, thankful for her "hidden gem" of a workplace and...
Wieslaw Wroblewski, 61, of Clarendon Hills died May 6, 2023. He is survived by his wife, Agnieszka Wroblewski, nee Razniewska; his two sons, Michael (Angela) Wroblewski and Paul Wroblewski; and his grandchildren, Sofia, Victoria. He was preceded in death by his granddaughter, Mia. Visitation is from 3 to 8 today, May 11, at Sullivan Funeral Home, 60 S. Grant St., Hinsdale. Friends and family will gather at 8:45 a.m. Friday, May 12, at the funeral home before proceeding to St. Mary of Czestochowa Parish Church, 3010 S. 48th...
Joe A. Simpson, AIA, 81, of Burr Ridge, passed away March 18, 2023, with his son and wife by his side at Northwestern Hospital after a yearlong battle with thyroid cancer. He was born in 1941 in Kansas City, Kan., to Floy and Joe C. Simpson. The many skyscrapers he built were in full view from his hospital bed window. He had an incredible desire to build the best buildings possible with his love and passion for the great city of Chicago. He built a successful career as project manager on the Cook County jail, RUSH University...
Martin Leonard Gmeiner of Hinsdale passed away peacefully with his family by his side May 5, 2023. Marty was born in Neenah, Wis., in 1941 to Janet and Seymore. He grew up in Highland Park and attended Highland Park High School where he met his lifelong golfing buddies, adventurers and dear friends Barry Golden, Bill Phillips, Bob Luckman, Charlie Dixon, Harry Vignocchi, John Scornavaco, Ronnie Foreman and Wayne Bellei. After high school, Marty attended Miami of Ohio on a...
Robert H. Jeffers Jr., 74, of Hinsdale died May 5, 2023. Bob was born in 1949 to Robert H. Jeffers Jr. and Ruth Mary Mahan Jeffers in Leominster, Mass. From age 9 he grew up in Glen Ellyn, where he had a picture-perfect childhood that included Boy Scouts, tennis, stamp collecting and a door-to-door egg sales route. He graduated from Glenbard West in 1967 and Marquette University in 1971, as a member of Alpha Delta Gamma Fraternity with a bachelor’s in history. He started his career in the credit department at Marshall F...
Dorothy Virginia Girgis, formerly of Hinsdale, passed away May 4, 2023, in her California home with family at her side. Her romance with the love of her life never faded during her 63-year marriage to Dr. Tawfik F. Girgis. They met in 1957 when Dorothy took her mother to see Dr. Girgis for treatment and then ended up as his patient herself. Dorothy was the epitome of devotion and support for her marriage, their three children and her husband's medical practice. Even so, Jesus...
Dr. Harvey Drucker, 82, a longtime resident of Clarendon Hills, passed away May 6, 2023, at his home in Downers Grove, surrounded by his loving family. Above all else, Harvey's life was defined by love and by the nearly 58-year marriage he shared with his wife, Betty. Harvey was born in Chicago in 1941. His childhood was spent with his parents, brother George and sister Dianne, and a large and loving extended family made up of his grandparents and many aunts, uncles and...
Newenka DuMont, 61, of Hinsdale passed away peacefully May 4, 2023, in Hinsdale with her husband, Yannis Arvanitis, and children, Zeph and Ethan, at her side. Her parents, Stephen and Barbara, and her sisters, Kevelyn Belden and Mischy, were able to be with her the night before to share their love and say goodbye. Newenka was a friend, loving wife and life partner, outstanding mother, strong advocate and leader for gifted education, and general instigator of mirth and...
"When the student is ready the teacher appears. When the student is truly ready the teacher disappears." - Lao Tzu I love that quote. Aren't we all students making discoveries about ourselves and the world throughout our lives? We are if we're awake. I know I've learned a lot since becoming a parent some 23 years ago. I don't normally get all philosophical, but I was trying to think of ideas for this essay when I passed by Peirce Park and saw Little League season has begun....
Sunday we once again will celebrate the women we call Mom. Moms, it seems, do it all. They can soothe a crying baby and quiet the tantrums of a toddler. They can bandage a scraped knee and cook up just the right comfort food to heal hurt feelings. They are our caretakers, teachers, mentors, cheerleaders, friends and confidants. Mothers might work inside the home or outside the home or even find a way to do both at the same time when the need arises. They hold every kind of job, from PTO volunteer to CEO. Most moms are quick...
Each of us had a mother. Whether we knew that woman, loved - or even liked - her, still have her or lost her to death or estrangement, we all are born to a mother. Those of us who are very, very fortunate have multiple women who have offered some kind of mothering to us in our lives. I feel lucky to count myself in this group. First, of course, was my Mom. In a way, she was a study of opposites. She could be very emotional at times, but she also could be unbelievably strong....
Carolyn and Chris Hart bought a house in Hinsdale in 2021, not knowing at the time that it would soon be home to a family of three. After a lengthy renovation project during which the Harts lived in Carolyn's brother's basement just next door, they moved in in February 2022, leaving them several months to settle in and prepare for the next big event in their lives - the birth of baby Ashley. Hart became a mother on June 29, 2022, and will celebrate her first Mother's Day as a...
Hinsdale police distributed the following reports May 9. DUI arrest Allen J. Olson, 44, 3316 S. Clinton Ave,, Berwyn, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and speeding at 2:01 a.m. May 7 in the 500 block of East Ogden Avenue. He was charged and released to appear in court. Rental car driver arrested Gretchen R. Billups, 58, PO Box 116, Wheaton, was arrested for criminal trespass to vehicle at 7:53 p.m. May 2 in the 500 block of West Ogden Avenue after a registration inquiry alerted police that the vehicle,...
Hinsdale police issued 74 citations for hands-free law violations, two for no valid drivers license, four for speeding, two for seatbelt noncompliance and nine citations for other violations to the Illinois Vehicle Code during April’s Distracted Driving Awareness Month enforcement campaign. “We strongly enforce traffic laws for one reason — to save lives,” said Deputy Chief Thomas Lillie. “This increased enforcement was implemented to help motorists avoid the often-deadly consequences of distracted driving with a simple re...
April's showers are resulting in a colorful yield of May flowers across the village. And no flower past or present is more associated with Hinsdale than the American Beauty Rose. The rose was declared the village's official flower in a May 2 proclamation celebrating the village's 150th anniversary. According to records in the Hinsdale Historical Society's archives, the brilliant bloom's local roots can be traced back to 1887, when printing company owner Orland Bassett and his...
Community Consolidated School Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, May 15 Hinsdale Middle School 100 S. Garfield Ave. www.d181.org On the draft agenda: kindergarten update, middle school language arts resource recommendation, approval of tentative budget, board committee assignments Hinsdale Economic Development Commission 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 17 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. www.villageofhinsdale.org Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, May 11 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets...
Community groups, families and businesses are invited to participate in the annual Hinsdale Independence Day Parade at 10 a.m. July 4 to help celebrate the village’s 150th anniversary this year. Parade participants are asked to consider floats, music or other pageantry for this year’s parade. There is no charge for community groups and nonprofit organizations to march. The entry fee for businesses is $150. To register, visit www.villageofhinsdale.org and find the 150th Anniversary Celebration tab under “Residents.” Questio...
John Charles Fremont Merrill probably wouldn't recognize today the house Adolph Froscher built for him in 1892 at 222 E. Sixth St. Merrill, secretary of the Chicago Board of Trade, was a native New Yorker who moved to Illinois in 1873 as a grain buyer. After moving to Hinsdale with his family, he went on to serve as a village trustee from 1894-98 and village president from 1902-04. He was prominent in the grain market and a confidential advisor to Herbert Hoover. Years later,...
Hinsdale legacies - The home at 222 E. Sixth St. was built as a Queen Anne in 1892 for John Charles Fremont Merrill but remodeled in the 1940s to its current classical revival style. The home was featured in "Hinsdale the Beautiful: Gem of Chicago Suburbs," published by Campbell's Illustrated Journal in November 1897. The home recently underwent its latest renovation under new owners Lael and Colin Falls. Learn more about the house in this week's installment of the Hinsdale...
Two Chicago men were arrested May 5 on felony charges after leading Hinsdale police in a high-speed chase that ended in Oak Lawn. Metrevell Hutchinson, 21, 713 N. Ada St., and Cobie Vaughn, 20, 7830 S. Oglesby Ave., were each arrested on one count of possession of a stolen motor vehicle, a Class 2 felony. Hutchinson also is charged with one count of aggravated fleeing and eluding a police officer, a Class 4 felony. At about 1:25 a.m. May 5, a Hinsdale police officer saw a...
