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ARTFULLY DONE The Art of Chinese Papercutting Sept. 21 Hinsdale Public Library 20 E. Maple St. www.hinsdalelibrary.info (630) 986-1976 Join Yvonne Wolf from Chinese Intercultural Consulting Services to learn about the art and significance of Chinese paper cutting and how it relates to other cultures and try beginner-level projects that can be finished within a few minutes. Time: 2 to 3 p.m. RR FAMILY FUN Family Birding Sept. 14 Fullersburg Woods 3609 Spring Road, Oak Brook...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16 Hinsdale Middle School, 100 S. Garfield Ave. www.d181.org On the draft agenda: full-day kindergarten update, summer capital projects summary, district office building update, enrollment report, summer 2024 programs review, 2024-25 curriculum and professional learning highlights Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 Hinsdale Central High School, 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings On the...
"Are you sad your TV show ended?" read the subject line of an email I received last week. "Of course!" I thought to myself. I'm also sad when a book that I love ends. According to Dr. Tabatha Greene, a psychologist at Advocate Health Care, it's common for people to feel a strong sense of identity with or connection to characters. "Humans are wired for connection," Greene said in the emailed article. "Books or movies can fulfill that need to some extent." I would say personal...
The girls flag football team, new this year to Hinsdale Central and the IHSA, along with the boys football and soccer teams and the girls tennis team are the focus of this third and final installment of the season preview series. Previous installments ran Aug. 22 and 29. Girls flag football First game: Sept. 3 vs. Hinsdale South (V loses 48-0) Head coach: Nick Gebhart Seasons as head coach: 1st No. varsity team members: 35 Strengths: Our work ethic is tremendous. We try to...
What do you hope to accomplish your senior year? Meiyan Zhu has one goal for her senior year of high school, and that's to make it the best one it can be. "I'm making sure high school doesn't pass me by," Zhu said. She's made a conscious decision to spend her final year of high school trying new things and stepping back just a bit from her rigorous academic schedule to make time for fun. Just days into the new school year, Zhu already has added a line to her resume as a...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings Hinsdale Parks and Recreation Commission 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. www.villageofhinsdale.org...
With the start of classes at Hinsdale Central High School last week came the start of the Red Devils sports season. The addition of girls flag football this year brings the number of fall sports teams to 10. In this, the first of a three-part season preview series, coaches for the boys and girls golf teams and girls swim/dive team share insights on their teams and the athletes they hope will take them into the postseason. Boys golf First meet: Aug. 15 @ Edwardsville Invite (V...
George Charles Mueller, 87, passed away peacefully on Aug. 18, 2024, at Oak Trace Health Center in Downers Grove. He was born in 1937 in rural Hinsdale (now Oak Brook) to George H. Mueller, whose family had settled there in 1872, and Rose (nee Spamheimer) Mueller. He was baptized at Zion Lutheran Church in Hinsdale, where he was a lifelong member. He graduated from Hinsdale High School and North Central College in Naperville with a business degree. George served with the...
The most significant improvement project at Hinsdale Central High School over the summer, according to Principal Bill Walsh, didn't require any heavy equipment. "We renumbered all the rooms," Walsh revealed on a recent campus tour shortly before students returned. Rooms now have four-digit identifiers, with 0100 numbers in the basement, 1000 and up on the first floor and 2000 on the second. "We ran out of numbers," said Walsh, explaining the way expansion over the years had...
Practice for the Hinsdale Central girls swim and dive team didn’t start out the way athletes or their coaches hoped on Monday. Instead of meeting at the school’s Don Watson Aquatic Center, they were at the FMC Natatorium in Westmont. Crews are still working to replace the tile deck at the 3-year-old pool at Central, which has been closed since May 1. Work is expected to continue into early October. Hinsdale High School District 86 Superintendent Mike Lach offered an update at the Aug. 8 school board meeting. “It’s not goo...
COLLEGE STUDENTS MAKE DEAN'S LISTS These Hinsdale students earned a place on the dean's list or equivalent for the spring 2024 semester. • Blake Baird, University of Minnesota Twin Cities • Patrick Boyle, College of the Holy Cross • Quinn Cain, Tufts University • Maya Conway, Augustana College • Katie Dollens, University of Delaware • Noah Lim, University of Minnesota Twin Cities • Sarah Lotsoff, Tufts University CENTRAL GRAD A MERIT SCHOLAR Hinsdale Central High School senior Nikolas Theotikos earned a National Meri...
The sun is shining and a cool breeze is blowing the morning of July 18 as Hinsdale Central juniors and seniors arrive for their seventh day of football camp at Dickinson Field. Before camp started July 8, it had been more than eight months since players and coaches were on the gridiron. "It always feels like a long time coming, but once it's here, its such a familiar, comfortable feeling, so it's great," varsity head coach Brian Griffin said. Quarterback Riley Contreras, a jun...
Nancy Tieszen, a former Hinsdale and Oak Brook resident, passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 20, 2024, in her home at Goddard House, Brookline, Mass. Nancy, 97, was born in Raleigh, N.C., and spent her formative years in Springfield, Mo. She graduated from Purdue University in 1949 and began her graduate studies in statistics there, where she met her future husband, Mel Tieszen. Married in 1952, they settled in the Chicago area to raise their family. Their three children...
Laura Schindler of Burr Ridge, formerly of Hinsdale, died July 20, 2024, after a long illness. Laura was born in Chicago to Mary, nee Thomson, and John J. Kennelly. She attended the Faulkner School for Girls and Hinsdale Central High School and graduated from University of New Hampshire. She obtained her master’s in social work from Loyola University and her master’s in library science from Rosary College. She worked for many years as a librarian at Helen Plum Library in Lombard. She was a longtime member of Westmont Ala...
"Why are you willing to spend time on something you're not getting credit for?" The question was posed to rising Hinsdale Central junior Asha Sarai, a student in last week's AP History Writing Workshop, by Alex Mayster, executive director of communications for Hinsdale High School District 86. Sarai had a ready response. "I obviously do care about my academic success," she said, citing the summer slide that can happen. "It's a great way to get back in the mindset of learning...
From the first time she visited Hinsdale, Tina Weller liked what she saw. She's spent the last two decades making it, and the world around it, even better. "It just seemed like a really amazing community where people were happy," Weller said of Hinsdale, the village she and husband Jeff chose as their home 20 years ago while expecting their first son. Since then, Weller has taken nearly every opportunity to give back to her adopted hometown. From volunteering at her two sons'...
Several Hinsdale Central graduates and one from Fenwick plan to continue their athletic careers in college. They shared their best high school sports memories and their anticipations for the next four years with The Hinsdalean. This is the second in a two-part series. The first installment ran July 4. Ardit Abdullai, Bradley University, soccer I will most remember ... my junior year when we competed for a super-sectional title after many people thought we wouldn't make it...
For those of you not "in the know" (basically everyone outside my immediate family), today is an auspicious day. My 21st wedding anniversary. My marriage can finally drink legally. What kind of gift is appropriate for that milestone? Traditional gifts for a 21st anniversary, I learned, are brass and nickel, symbols of strength, endurance and longevity. That's sort of sweet, isn't it? Makes it feel like this marriage is a fortress. Which, in a way, I suppose it has been. It...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, July 11 Hinsdale Central High School, 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings On the agenda: board self-evaluation report, board committee responsibilities Hinsdale Police Pension Board 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, July 17 Police Department, 121 Symonds Drive www.villageofhinsdale.org Hinsdale Village Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 16 Memorial Building, 19 E. Chicago Ave. www.villageofhinsdale.org Hinsdale Zoning Board of Appeals 6:30 p.m....
The collegiate athletic arena awaits a number of recent Hinsdale Central graduates, as well as Hinsdale residents who completed their studies at private schools. These sports standouts shared their fondest high school memories with The Hinsdalean, as well as what excites them as they head to their new campus homes. This is the first of a two-part series. The second installment will run July 11. Fiona Allen, University of Virgina, lacrosse I will most remember ... playing...
Runners get faster with conditioning and sprints and musicians perfect their skills with scales and breathing exercises. Rishikar Gandham hones his skills with speaking drills. The Hinsdale Central junior is one of five Central students to compete in the 2024 National Speech & Debate Tournament in Des Moines June 16-21. The five students competed among 6,700 students representing 1,500 schools from across the country. The competition ultimately crowned 41 champions in events...
By mid-afternoon Tuesday, it was hard to believe rainy, gloomy weather had caused the Hinsdale Community Pool to close earlier that day. The sun was shining from a brilliant blue sky adorned with fluffy white clouds. The crowd might have been smaller than usual, but there are still plenty of patrons - adults swimming laps, playing with their kids in the water or reading a book in the shade of one of the large umbrellas. Two-year-old Millie Jane Muskievicz was participating...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, July 11 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 10 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. www.villageofhinsdale.org On the draft agenda: public hearing on landscaping and screening standards of the Hinsdale Zoning Ordinance; findings and recommendations on 5891-5911 S. County Line Road (Hinsdale Paddle Tennis Association) special-use permit and 120 N. Oak...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business June 27, board members: • listened to Interim Superintendent Rebecca Nelson report that boys gymnastics programs will go ahead at both Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South tentatively for four years. The viability of the program will be evaluated in two years based on participation, availability of competition and finances to determine if the programs should be continued. • approved the tentative FY 2025 budget. The proposed spending plan of $136.8 million for the...
HINSDALE STUDENTS GRADUATE COLLEGE The following Hinsdale students earned a degree at the conclusion of the spring 2024 term at their respective colleges and universities. • Mitchell Anderson, bachelor’s in finance, University of Iowa • Benjamin Cosentino, bachelor’s in finance, University of Iowa • Hailey Donovan, bachelor’s, Northern Illinois University • Fiona Fitzsimons, bachelor’s in marketing, University of Iowa • Juliana Gee, bachelor’s in communication studies, University of Iowa • Elizabeth Klink, bachelor’s in...
