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How can people learn more about artificial intelligence? What does a high school student do when she can't find adequate resources to fuel her interest in artificial intelligence? She starts her own international educational nonprofit, of course. After attending a summer camp at Stanford University as a high school freshman, Hinsdale Central junior Jui Khankari was left with a hunger to learn more about artificial intelligence and its potential, specifically in medicine. "I...
Kristin Hucek was a week away from her wedding day on Aug. 1 when her phone rang. It was the casting office for "Jeopardy!" telling the bride-to-be she was now a contestant-to-be. "I just got a call out of the blue asking me if I could show up to tape the show," said the Hinsdale native. She accepted, and her appearance will be televised at 3:30 p.m. today, Oct. 15, on ABC 7. Hucek, now an attorney in San Francisco, had been waiting since last year for the call. An online appl...
The blustery winds at Silver Lake Country Club in Orland Park Tuesday didn't throw the Hinsdale Central girl golfers off their game. The Red Devils kept their composure to win their 2A IHSA sectional championship with 312 strokes, three strokes better than runner-up Sandburg. "It was really close," head coach Nick Latorre said of the suspense as both teams battled to the end for the victory. "They have great attitudes and competed and did a great job all year." The tournament...
Five years ago, Tara DeGeer's teenage son expressed concern about the well-being of his peers after the suicide of a local high school student. He worried about how others were doing with news of the student's death and that there could be copycat suicides. In response, DeGeer created The Parent List, a Hinsdale Central PTO-supported online platform where parents may leave an anonymous positive review of a professional who was helpful to their child. The Parent List contains...
Before my husband and I chose to build our home in Hinsdale, we checked out the school systems in the surrounding suburbs. The deciding factor would be the legacy for our children of their educational opportunities. Our son became a full actuary at age 23 and our daughter chose a six-year medical program, becoming an M.D. directly from high school, both graduating from Central. Both will attest their high school was harder than their colleges. Our daughter started the advanced math program at Elm, which helped build a firm...
Picture this: you're walking into Wrigley Field and see the Sox playing. You check your tickets and nope, it's not the Cross Town Classic. That is the same feeling every single junior across Illinois felt when they received email after email, month after month with the subject: ACT CANCELED FOR APRIL. Then, the same thing two months later, ACT CANCELED FOR JUNE. We were walking into the stadium completely blindsided. Only this time, the stadium was our college admissions...
Music was an important part of Lisa Pomeroy's life throughout her years at Hinsdale Central High School. She was a member of the madrigal singers, concert choir and musical casts, sang in the school talent show and further honed her vocal skills with private lessons. It wasn't until she had graduated from University of Illinois with a degree in French commercial studies that Pomeroy considered music as a career. As she prepared to embark on the world of international...
With the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board set to approve a new math sequence this month, board members in Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 made it clear Monday night they do not support the move. The new integrated math curriculum would weave algebra 1, geometry and algebra 2 into three courses titled Math 1, 2 and 3. “D181 is not really on board with the current changes,” said District 181 Board member Sheetal Rao, who chairs the academic success committee. “It’s important for our community to know that....
Kristy Brindley's heart goes out to parents who get a call that their high school son or daughter had an abnormal EKG at a Young Hearts for Life screening. "I know that's going to be a very hard call to receive and a very shocking call," Brindley said. "In reality, I know they just received a blessing. They got a call much different than our family." The call Brindley received in the summer of 2016 was that her son, Michael, had died of sudden cardiac arrest while attending...
The Hinsdale Central Foundation was set to induct five new members into its Hall of Fame on Oct. 1 at Ruth Lake Country Club. The annual event has taken place every year since the inaugural class was inducted in 1997. This year, of course, things are different. “We had to put the festivities on hold because of the pandemic and the rules that are in place for in-person dining,” said Carol Bobo, foundation president. “Our site does not allow for more than 50 people, and that is very hard to do when we want to recognize every...
While most Hinsdale Central students will be back on campus for one day during the week of Oct. 5, the final group of in-person learners won’t return until Nov. 2 according to the Hinsdale High School District 86 reopening plan. The plan, released at the Sept. 24 school board meeting, calls for 25 percent of students to be on campus at a time. Each of the four equal groups — which will be assigned by an algorithm and will have siblings grouped together — will attend a single half day the first week of October. Then each...
In 1998, Hinsdale Central's girls cross country program was looking for an assistant coach. Mark McCabe had a track record helping the boys the previous six years and had coached some of the girls distance runners during track season. But would that experience translate? "I never really pictured myself as a full-time girls coach," McCabe admitted. Despite that, he took the position and quickly found his stride. "I loved it," he said. "(Girls) are like sponges in terms of...
Brian St. Clair of Ottawa, formerly of Hinsdale, passed away unexpectedly Sept. 24, 2020 at Ottawa Hospital at the age of 73. He was born in 1946 in Hinsdale to Elmer and Amelia St. Clair and graduated from Hinsdale Central High School in 1964. He married Kathleen Glenn in 1968 at St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church in Hinsdale. Together they owned the B-Line Trucking Co. He was preceded in death by his wife, Kathleen; and his siblings, Kenny, Orville and Adrienne St. Clair....
As junior board members of the just1mike Foundation, we wanted to inform residents about our Facebook fundraiser in October. Just1mike was created to honor Michael Brindley, a Hinsdale Central student, who suffered sudden cardiac death in 2016, playing basketball at just 16 years old. The mission of just1mike is to raise awareness and survival rates of sudden cardiac arrest in teens and young adults through training, screening and education. Many are unaware sudden cardiac arrest is the No. 1 killer of student athletes. It...
Bob Dylan once sang about prior generations turning a cynical eye to youth activism. Fifty-six years later, when recent Hinsdale Central grad Maiwen Amegadjie organized June's peaceful protest against racial oppression, some Hinsdale business owners criticized young protesters claiming the timing was not right and that "nothing good will come out of it." A quote from Maiwen touched upon that criticism: "... I feel like a lot of people are sheltered and cloistered here. They...
We get it, Kevin. We agree it’s inconsiderate — bordering on rude — for citizens to come to Hinsdale High School District 86 Board meetings, complain about something during public comment and leave. And we know, board President Camden, that you have the authority to set the agenda. But moving “audience communication” to the very end of school board meetings (item 21.1 on Sept. 24) is a disproportionate response to this discourteous behavior. At best, it reads like punishment for a misbehaving child. At worst it could be...
Sports are back! That's the good news for Red Devil Nation. But the fall season, during which only six teams are competing, is presenting some unique challenges for everyone from athletes to the athletic director. Dealing with ongoing changes to the fall schedule has been nerve-wracking, Hinsdale Central AD Dan Jones said this week. "In a normal year, we do our schedules well ahead of time, almost a year ahead of time, and finalize them months ahead of time so we're ready to...
Four students in Community Consolidated District 181 have tested positive for COVID-19 since in-person classes resumed Sept. 8. A student at Hinsdale Middle School was listed as the first case on the district website on Friday. The student, an eighth-grader, has not been at school while possibly contagious since Sept. 14, according to the notification sent to HMS families. Another three students reported they had tested positive on Monday, Jamie Lavigueur, district...
Agency Picks up foundation grant The Hinsdale-based Green Halo Scholars organization received a grant of $7,000 last month from the Palumbo Foundation to fund professional college essay writing support and professional college counseling for under-resourced high school seniors. Green Halo Scholars is a nonprofit formed two years ago to help students in need at several western suburban high school navigate the college application and selection process. STUDENTS EARN MEDALS IN EXAMS More than 200 Hinsdale Central students were...
When we announced this summer that we were looking for new contributing columnists, we didn't expect to have the largest applicant pool we've seen in years. (Perhaps being stuck at home with nothing to do made people more likely to apply!) While I was happy to receive emails from so many people, it made the job of selecting new writers very difficult. We announced our three new columnists - Bret Conway, Gabriela Garcia and Alegra Waverley - and our retuning writer, Kelly...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business Sept. 10, board members: • voted 7-0 to issue almost $46.1 million in bonds, the third bond sale related to the $139.8 million building referendum voters approved in an April 2019 referendum. The sale is expected to generate $50.6 million in proceeds, due to a “premium” (bonds trade above their “par” or face value). The district received a premium on its first two bond sales as well, receiving $70 million from its first sale of $62.26 million and $34.9 million f...
Some students will be back in the buildings at Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South high schools this month, with in-person classes set to resume until Oct. 5. Even then, only 25 percent of each school's enrollment will return, with plans to bring more teens back to campus in the weeks that follow, Superintendent Tammy Prentiss told Hinsdale High School District 86 Board members at their Sept. 10 meeting. The roughly 100 parents and students who gathered at a "We Stand for the...
DOCtors join MEDICAL GROUP DuPage Medical Group has welcomed 14 new physicians in a variety of specialties, including two who see patients in Hinsdale. • Dr. Ashish Arora is board-certified in gastroenterology. He earned his medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He completed his residency in internal medicine as well as his fellowship training in gastroenterology and hepatology at Loyola University Medical Center. • Dr. Laura Hamad earned her doctorate of osteopathic medicine from Midwestern Universit...
Benjamin Schultz, 31, formerly of Hinsdale, passed away unexpectedly on Sept. 1, 2020, at his home in Woodridge. Ben grew up in Hinsdale and went to The Lane School and Clarendon Hills Middle School. He was a 2007 graduate of Hinsdale Central High School, where he played football all four years. Ben attended Arizona State University and was a window, siding and doors salesman. He is survived by his parents, Timothy Schultz and Jeanine Schultz; his siblings, Emily Elisabeth...
Hinsdale High School District 86 officials are reviewing information released last week by the DuPage County Health Department to determine possible next steps in an effort to eventually implement the district’s hybrid model for instruction. The district announced Aug. 13 that it would start the school year with remote learning exclusively in the wake of newly issued guidelines from the Illinois Department of Public Health and Illinois State Board of Education. The new guidelines tightened protocols in the event of a p...
