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Every September I have the bittersweet task of bidding a group of contributing columnists farewell and welcoming a new group of writers to our paper. This year three writers have finished their terms — Rob Johnson, Laura LaPlaca and student columnist (and now Hinsdale Central graduate!) Annika Agrawal. We also are saying a premature goodbye to Jim Hutchinson, who is moving with his wife, Donna, to Oberlin, Ohio, to be closer to his daughter, son-in-law and grandson. H...
The Hinsdale High School District 86 Board has given the green light for a 10-lane pool at Hinsdale Central, following administrators’ recommendation but departing from a pre-referendum pledge to build a six-lane swimming facility to match the one at Hinsdale South. A majority of board members voiced support for moving ahead with designs for a larger Central pool, saying it made sense from both a programmatic and economic standpoint. Board member Kathleen Hirsman described how her position shifted from initially opposing a n...
"All in." That's the theme of the Hinsdale Central football program this year. Offense and defense. Juniors and seniors. Males and females. Wait, what? Yes, it's true. Look closely at the next game and you might spot coach Allison Fish working with defensive players on the sidelines and blond braids extending from the helmet of No. 34, wide receiver Chiara Gregor. The two make joining a group of 80 players and half a dozen coaches - none of whom are women - look easy, varsity...
Hinsdale Central senior Sydney Thayer has been thinking about Homecoming since last spring. She hasn't been dreaming of the perfect date or the perfect dress. As co-president of Varsity Club, she's been involved in the nitty gritty details of making this week a success. The club's executive board chose the theme, "Let's Get Fired Up," in the spring. But much of the work was still to be done when classes resumed in August. "We really only have five weeks with our full club at...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets On the agenda: public hearing and approval of FY 2020 budget, report of the Sept. 20 joint special and facilities committee meeting, Sterigenics update Hinsdale Historic Preservation Commission 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. Hinsdale Village Board 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: commercial filming, parking deck update,...
The Hinsdale Central High School Foundation has announced the names of five individuals who will be inducted into its Hall of Fame in conjunction with Homecoming week activities. The new members will be honored at a banquet at 6 tonight at Ruth Lake Country Club, 6200 Madison St., Hinsdale. This year's honorees include two medical professionals and three educators. Pam Bylsma During her 34 years in secondary school education, Pam Bylsma has served in the roles of teacher,...
Hinsdale Finance Commission special meeting 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: discussion of budget assumptions for the 2020 annual budget Hinsdale Firefighters Pension Board 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets...
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is asking people to do one thing in recognition of Suicide Prevention Month in September - #BeThe1To. Be the one to ... ask. Keep them safe. Be there. Help them connect. Follow up. That can sound like a lot of responsibility. But Community Memorial Foundation in Hinsdale, which sent out this message to 1,000 recipients via email, wants people to know they aren't alone, whether they are considering taking their own life or trying to...
STUDENTS NAMED SEMIFINALISTS Fifteen Hinsdale Central High School students have been named semifinalists in the 65th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. They are Chelsea Biala, Thomas Clark, Catherine Collins, Lucy Fischer, Jessy Huang, Kevin Jin, Alyssa Lee, Daniel Leung, Nicholas Lynch, Selena Ren, Max Schwalb, Ava Severts, Daniel Skora, Jackson Stermer and Lauren Witt. They and the other 16,000 students who have been named semifinalists now have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 National...
For years, Hinsdale Central soccer coach Mike Wiggins had organized the donation of hundreds of soccer balls for kids at the O’Brien School for the Maasai in Tanzania, Africa. Then Kellie O’Brien, the Hinsdale woman who founded the school, asked Wiggins to donate something else. “You know, what we really could use is you,” O’Brien remembers telling Wiggins. “You would be the best gift.” It would be his dream, he responded. “I said, ‘Let’s make it happen,’ ” she said...
Gerda W. Hoover, 92, of Lombard, died Aug. 8, 2019, at her home. Gerda was born in 1927 to Erich and Maria Wolff, landowners in East Prussia, Provice of Germany. An only child, Gerda grew up at a peaceful time in a beautiful farming area she described as a land of dark forests and crystal-like lakes, home to elk and the famous Trakehner pure breed horses. At the end of World War II in the winter of 1945, she and her mother fled from advancing Russian troops. Her father had...
Hinsdale's' Maureen Hegarty just returned from the National Assistance League Conference in Las Vegas. As a longtime member of the village's Assistance League Chicagoland West chapter, she enjoyed the fellowship with other volunteers from the organization's 110 chapters nationwide. "It's really nice to network and share ideas with the different chapters and see how they do things," Hegarty said. One idea that seems unique to ALCW is the New Start program providing kitchen esse...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16 District office 115 W. 55th St., Clarendon Hills On the draft agenda: LEAP teacher presentation (6 p.m.), public hearing and approval of 2019-20 budget, sixth-day enrollment report, HMS update, summer facilities update, MAP similar schools report Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets On the draft agenda: cost analysis for new pools, master agreement with Pepper Construction,...
Gerda W. Hoover, 92, of Lombard, died Aug. 8, 2019, at her home. Gerda was born in 1927 to Erich and Maria Wolff, landowners in East Prussia, Provice of Germany. An only child, Gerda grew up at a peaceful time in a beautiful farming area she described as a land of dark forests and crystal-like lakes, home to elk and the famous Trakehner pure breed horses. At the end of World War II in the winter of 1945, she and her mother fled from advancing Russian troops. Her father had been called to dig ditches to stop the Soviet tanks....
Two important concepts should determine how to get the most benefit from the proceeds of the April referendum for our two high schools. First, I imagine very few people could enumerate the dollar amount originally designated for each area of spending at each school. So let’s assume there is a general pot of money to be spent in our two schools approximately in the proportion originally envisioned. If value engineering can free up additional funds, then I imagine most voters don’t care what aspect of the budget gets a boo...
I would like to encourage the D86 Board to continue to do the right thing for the student body and not succumb to political theatrics. The school referendum did not solely pass because the originally proposed 10-lane pool for Hinsdale Central was scaled down to six lanes. A clear majority (60-40) voted in favor of the $140 million referendum because facilities at both schools need to be fully upgraded after decades of underinvestment. Although the $140 million referendum included too small of a pool for Central, I believe the...
Kari Galassi has spent far more time on a soccer field than a stage. Yet somehow she has found herself at the helm of YES! Productions, a new theater program for young people in and around Hinsdale High School District 86. On her path to showbiz, the mother of three spent time leading the charge for the school district's recent referendum. As president of the Vote Yes committee, Galassi said she got to know her community, and the entire District 86 community, on a new level....
This is the third and final installment in our series previewing Hinsdale Central High School's fall sports teams. The boys and girls golf teams and football squad and were featured in the Aug. 22 issue, and girls cross country, boys soccer and girls tennis were spotlighted Aug. 29. Those articles are available online at https://www.thehinsdalean.com. Boys cross country First meet: Aug. 27 Red Devil Tri (vs. Benet & Fenwick) Last year: 4th in regional, 5th in sectional, 11th...
Harry "Hody" "Little Honey" William Parker, 58, passed away Aug. 28, 2019, at his home in Santa Rosa, California. He was born in 1960 and grew up in Hinsdale. He was a graduate of Hinsdale Central High School and Northwood University in Midland, Mich., where he was a member of Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity. He worked in car sales at Elmwood Ford and in truck sales at Freeway Ford in Lyons, for the majority of his career. Harry is remembered for his love of a good prank and his...
Eighteen typically isn’t a big anniversary. But for family and friends of the 2,977 men, women and children who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 — including some fellow Hinsdaleans — next Wednesday will not pass unnoticed. But many do not remember the horrors that unfolded that beautiful September morning. Most Hinsdale Central High School seniors were not yet born when the Twin Towers fell. College freshman were infants when the Pentagon burned. Even those who earned a bachelor’s degree in May wer...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets Hinsdale Parks and Recreation Commission 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: pool audit, park bench donation (Rinder family) Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave....
Three days after students at Hinsdale Central High School heard a presentation on the dangers of vaping, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported the death of an individual who had recently vaped and was hospitalized with severe respiratory illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also indicated last week that more than 149 possible cases of severe lung illness associated with e-cigarette product use were reported by 15 states between June 28 and Aug. 2...
After determining that the new pools at Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South high schools should be 40 yards long rather than 25, Hinsdale High School District 86 Board members now must decide whether to build a six- or eight-lane pool at Central. Hinsdale High School District 86 Board members heard from architects, their owner's rep, administrators and community members at their Aug. 22 meeting as they reviewed options for the two pools. The plan to keep six-lane, 25-yard pool...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business at their Aug. 22 meetings, board members: • held a public hearing on and approved an e-learning plan to allow the district to use remote learning days when the weather is inclement, instead of emergency days that must be made up later in the year. The Illinois State Board of Education required the board to hold the public hearing (at which no one spoke) and take an official vote before implementing the program. • heard a security update from Kevin Simpson, sec...
Some $23 million worth of construction projects will begin at Hinsdale Central High School at the end of this school year as Phase 1 of $139 million worth of improvements in Hinsdale High School District 86 begins. Initial projects at Central include the pool addition, the building and grounds addition/relocation, installation of turf in at Dickinson Field and practice fields, renovations of tennis courts, roof replacements, sewer improvements and miscellaneous ADA and...
