Hobart Senior High School - Memories Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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HOBART HIGH PATRONS Booster Club Computer Club Genesius Players S.A.D.D. Spanish Club Ho-Hi Life Quill And Scroll Photography Club

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Retirees The most important tool of the classroom is the teacher. This year we had to lose four of these special people. Miss Ruth Halladay, who retired last year, taught at Hobart for 25 years. Before com- ing to Hobart, she taught in a little town called Sweetser for 3 years, South Whitley for 2 years, and spent 4 years working in Nigeria. After she returned from Europe, she went to the University of Wisconsin to gain her masters degree. Miss Halladay came to Hobart from North Manchester, Indiana. She attended the Uni- versity of Wisconsin where she earned her VA in music with a minor in English. After teaching music for a few years, Miss Halla- day learned she enjoyed teaching English more. She then taught such subjects as Brit- ish literature, novel, world literature, senior composition, junior through freshman Eng- lish, speech, and drama through the years. Miss Halladay enjoys knowing students are interested in learning, both in Nigeria and the United States. Most students will also be surprised to know that Miss Halladay first intended to be a music teacher. Teaching in Nigeria, Miss Halladay lived in a little town 10 miles outside of Russia. She especially enjoyed touring the countryside and meeting the refugees fleeing from the Communist country. Even though this ex- perience benefitted her, she says living there in the rubble and ruins before the wall was built was very scary. After an operation to correct her eye- sight, Miss Halladay plans to pick up on reading where she left off. She also wants to work on her piano skills, garden, sew, and keep in contact with all of her friends far away through letters. Mr. Fay Trammel decided to retire after 32 years of service to education. Before working for the Hobart school system, he taught in Indianapolis for three years and Diver High School for three years. Mr. Trammel taught social studies sub- jects of all kinds, mostly government and economics. He also coached such sports as golf and basketball. In his free time Mr. Trammel plans to travel and visit many golf courses in the area. Mrs. Ruth Ann Deal, a health and safety and home economics teacher for 26 years also turned in her resignation. Mrs. Deal taught such subjects as health and safety, sex education, interpersonal relationships, and child development. Another English teacher, Mrs. Barbara Somers, has not retired but is on disability leave. During her free time, Mrs. Somers is spending time with her daughter who is back from college. Although Mr. Joe Mrak only taught print shop and then metal shop at HHS for sever- al years, he spent many years in the Gary school system. Yesterday Yesterday was filled with small delights baubles, trinkets, toys to pleasure me for my love brought me tinkling beads of glass And tiny bells which whispered in my ears. Bits of fur to nuzzle and caress My love gave birds with merry notes And perfume mists to tingle at my nose And rings and poems and many many things. Today is filled with half-cold memories No playthings for my fingertips The bead strings were too weak to hold Broken glass makes sorry souvenirs The fragile bells cannot be coaxed to ring How dull and musty bits of fur can grow Unhappy birds must surely fly away Amber scents which once were so discrete Grow stale. And rings and poems and many many things. Barbara Somers 28 Retirees