The Hammond High School Dunes
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Here is an opportunity to upload and share pictures that you may have been saving over the years, or recent photos that you have taken of yourself or your family. The Dunes was our official yearbook of HHS'59... so it is only fitting that we name our Photo Album after the memorable Dunes... If you are having trouble loading this, you may want to visit the Dunes page for smaller thumbnail sized pictures and faster loading... click here
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HHS Lifeguards at the
Hessville Swimming Pool, 1960...
Jerry Betts, Dave Bowers, Bob Dibblee, Tom
McCain, Rich Barnes
Sharron Ault Bortz
HHS Mardi Gras 1959
Sharron (at left)
poses as a Mermaid Who is that with her? |
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Frank Palazolo
| Was glad to hear from you -- been a
long time. The website looks GREAT -- had to hunt for the site for a while -- your web address didn't work use this link and it will take you or anyone else directly to it http://www.geocities.com/hhs59/index.html For the past 11 years I have been at the YMCA of the Rockies as their Fleet Manager ( 56 + ) vehicles to keep running. I also do web page consulting and design on the side. Hope to see your web page grow with more names and pictures Here is a picture of my wife ( Myrtha ) and I taken with my webcam |
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Bob Dibblee
at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Park City, Utah
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| Bob Dibblee, after retiring as a
Captain with Delta Airlines, achieves his goal of 100 Days of Skiing at his home in Park City, Utah. Bob started in November, 2001, and actually completed 103 days during the recent winter season. |
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Richard Barnes
| Rich Barnes attended Drake University on a four-year track scholarship, (B.A., M.A.) then received a Fellowship to attend graduate school at The University of Chicago (B.D.). He received his Ph.D. at South Dakota State University (Brookings, SD) in 1987. Barnes was elected to the South Dakota House of Representatives in 1972 and was re-elected in 1974. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1980 (New York), 1984 (San Francisco) and in 1988 served on the DNC Rules Committee for the Atlanta convention. He managed Sen. George McGovern's Iowa Caucus Campaign in 1984. Academically, Barnes was in research administration at The University of South Dakota and director of the Center for Innovation, Technology & Enterprise in South Dakota, before accepting the position of Research Director at The Center for Corporate Community Relations at Boston College. He has presented professional papers in Vienna, Paris and Istanbul, where Barnes was a guest speaker at the World Business Conference of the United Nations Habitat II Summit Meeting, 1996. During his academic career, Barnes received more than $10 million in research grants, and has conducted national research projects for IBM Corporation (Armonk, NY), the City of New York, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The Points of Light Foundation (Washington, DC), Glaxo Wellcome (Research Triangle Park, NC), Gillette, Polaroid, among others. Most recently, Barnes was CEO and President of an electronics contract manufacturing cormpany north of Boston, Massachusetts (1996-2002), a company that built power supplies for the U-2 spy plane, calibration units for the Army's night vision goggles, and the Patriot Heat Recorder for Raytheon's Patriot Missile, among others products. Barnes was also publisher of the Sioux Falls Sun Newspaper and owner/founder of Molded Plastics, Inc. He is a volunteer for the Nashua Children's Home, Road to Recovery (transportation for cancer patients). He is presently on the board of directors of the Gateway Credit Union (New Hampshire), and Illumination Design Works, Inc. (Boston) Barnes returned to Northwest Indiana after marrying Carole Salczynski in 2004 (they met in 4th grade at Edison School, Hammond). They both serve on the board of directors of The Carmelite Home for Girls in East Chicago. Barnes also serves as a member of the Quality of Life Council (NW Indiana). |
"You never know if you've had a good education or a bad education until you graduate and then it is too late. "Our educational experience at HHS was
outstanding, thanks to our teachers and staff. Any success we may have
had in life is due to that educational and cultural environment...
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Lois Bowton Marek
Charlotte, North Carolina
On top of Table Rock here in
North Carolina.
From the left: my brother, Bob and his wife, Diane. Both are '65
HHS graduates.
She lived on Harrison and now they live near Portland, Oregon.
The handsome guy on my right is by baby boy.
This was taken at the end of summer, 2001.
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Vacation in San Francisco |
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Suzanne Leu Schmidt of Highland,
IN and
Barb Kintz Egner of Hazel Crest, IL
happened to meet at a private party in
Merrillville, Indiana recently.
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Sir Woodruff (dog) and his |
 http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~pbock |
Bock received his undergraduate degree
in physics and mathematics from Ripon College |
Dennis Croak
Hammond, Indiana
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This is me piloting the aircraft carrier Carl S. Vinson when I was on a Tiger cruise with my younger son Tim. Now I know all of you feel a lot safer knowing that the ship is back in the capable hands of the Navy. | |||
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Here I am with my son Tim when he made me fly out to Bremerton, WA so I could show him how to catch the larger fish. In case you haven't figured it out, I am the old guy on the right straining to hold that fish. |
Len Clark After going to Wabash for a BA in
philosophy, I went to Yale for a Ph.D. in 1967. We came to Earlham in 67, and I taught
philsophy here for 14 years before |
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Our three kids are now grown. Andy (33) went to
Hope College and is now COO of North
American Forest Products, near Elkhart IN. He and his wife Kara
have one son, age 1, named
Maxwell. We're having a great time with Max! First grandchild.
Ben is 26 and just finished an
MFA in ceramics at Wichita State after going to DePauw. He's
looking for a college teaching job
but is this year staying in Manhattan KS with his girlfriend
Krista, who is finishing a Ph.D. this year
in microbiology (cancer research). Our youngest, Alison,
graduated from DePauw 15 months ago
and is working as resource coordinator for Cope Environmental
Center, an environ ed facility near
Richmond. We're loving having her this close at least for a
while.
Mary Jo partnered with the wife of one of my
colleagues to co-direct Leadership Wayne County
here. They were very successful, and were used by the national
organization to teach other
people how to do community leadership programs. This turned into
a pretty large consulting
business which keeps them very busy and on the road perhaps 1/2
of their time from Sept-June.
We bought and remodeled a large early brick federal style home in
the country just outside
Richmond in 68, and we're still there. It's on 5 acres and lots
of it is woods. I love it.
I've written a book, Explanation: an Introduction to the
Philosophy of Science, with a chemist at
EC, and still teach a little in Ethics and in the Philosophy of
Natural Science. But mostly, I'm an
administrator, trying to help the college do well and help my
colleagues on the faculty. Nationally,
I've been the president of the American Conference of Academic
Deans, and have done lots of
consulting through the years for NEH. Most of my time is here
though, and I continue to be very
happy I chose the path I did. No plans to retire soon, though one
never knows. In this kind of
job, it all depends on the president, of whom I've now served 6
here.
Lakes got in my blood from the one my parents retired to in
central western IN. Mary Jo and I
bought in 78 and still have a cottage on Lake Gage near Angola in
Indiana's far northeastern
corner. It's a great ski lake and adjoins a good fishing lake, so
our kids have all been raised on
watersports, turtle-catching, and fishing. We still spend lots of
time up there during the summer,
with me usually arranging long weekends rather than being away
from work for an extended
period of time.
If another reunion is planned I'll sure make every effort to make
it. Reading the names from the
emails brings back such a flood of great memories. None are nicer
though than the ones of the
great campaign you ran when I was up for stu council president.
Combined your interest in
drawing cartoons with your developing sense for and interest in
politics, I remember.
Tell Barb I remember her fondly and thank her for the recognition
of the family resemblance with
my Dad. Our son Ben is a copy too. Dad died when Andy was 5, so
he's the only one of the
grandkids he got to know. My mother died in 89 and so she knew
them all.
One more thing in case you happen on an event on ESPN sometime.
Our younger kids- Ben
and Alison- got involved in a competitive rope-skipping team here
in Richmond when they were
little. Great and inspiring coach in a rapidly developing sport
(which combines a lot of gymnastics
with more traditional single and double dutch rope skipping.
There are hundreds of teams around
the world, though still more in the US than elsewhere. In any
case, Ben won both the national
and the world championship and their 2 and 4 person teams placed
in the top 3 for several years
nationally. It has been a wonderful sport for our family to
follow. This June, after missing several
years, they decided to compete again, and Ben again won the
national championship in age 18+
single rope freestyle. Sure isn't genetic! I can't jump rope at
all and neither can Mary Jo. The
championships are on ESPN so if you see them look for a
Clark-looking person. That's Ben.
| June and Larry Crozier Leicester, North Carolina |
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| This is a recent picture of Larry Crozier and his
wife of 41 years, June taken at their home in the mountains northwest of Asheville, NC. Larry retired from NIPSCo management in 1997. June retired from St Margaret Mercy Hospital as an RN in 1999. They moved to North Carolina in 1999 and have been busy with the project of clearing their land and landscaping. Their project is estimated to take about 5 years. They have recently purchased an RV and have begun to take up camping. Their goal is to make a cross country camping trip in 2003.They have 3 children, a daughter, Barb, who lives in Arkansas. A son, Alan, who lives in Ohio and a daughter,Debbie, who lives in Washington. |
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Bruce Landeck
Atlanta, Georgia
After Hammond High I attended Purdue and graduated in 1963 with a B.S. in Engineering Science. In 1962, between my junior and senior years, I worked the first of three summers for IBM. During my senior year at Purdue on the recommendation of IBM I was hired to setup and managed the new digital/analog computing laboratory in the Electrical Engineering School. After graduating from Purdue I continued my education at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, and in 1965 earned a M.S. degree in Aero Space Engineering majoring in orbital mechanics. While there I had a quarter time research assistantship in the Aero Space Engineering School and a quarter time teaching assistantship in the Computer Science School.
In March 1965 I started full time with IBM in San Jose, CA. Soon after joining IBM, they sponsored me for the Stanford University Corporate Honors Ph.D. program in Aero and Astro Engineering for which IBM covered all costs. I completed the course work but decided to not write a Ph.D. dissertation since I wanted to focus on commercial software development with IBM. Over the next 30 years I held a number of increasingly responsible management positions culminating in being Business Area Manager for Process Industries responsible for the development and profit/loss of all products targeted at process industries (Steel Mills, Oil Refineries, etc.) worldwide with a development laboratory in Houston and development groups in Boulder, and Pittsburgh. While at IBM I traveled extensively including 30 trips to Europe, 15 to the Far East, and a couple times around the world via Moscow. On June 30, 1993 at age 51 I took full retirement from IBM and on the next day, July 1, founded Spitfire Software, an IBM business partner focused on the development and marketing of financial software packages for OS/2 and the MS Windows operating systems. Our software package InCharge is the best selling personal and small business software package on OS/2. While at IBM I authored numerous technical papers, contributed to and co-edited two technical books published by McGraw-Hill, and was awarded IBM's highest award, a Corporate Outstanding Contribution Award for work on designing and developing the MPX operating system for the IBM 1800 real-time computer system, the first commercially available and successful multi-tasking operating system.
While at Standford I met Marlise Flannery and we were married on July 30, 1966 in Menlo Park, California. In the beginning we move quite often with IBM, living in Los Altos, CA, Poughkeepsie, NY, Atlanta, GA, and Boca Raton, FL. When we moved back to Atlanta in 1980, we decided no more moves and we have been here 22 years. We love the area. We have two grown children, Bruce Joseph and Marlise Suzon. Bruce lives here in Atlanta and works for WorldCom as manager of marketing support and customer billing for commercial customers. Suzon, husband Allen, and son Charlie live in Arlington, VA. Suzon is a senior attorney for the FCC and one of five attorneys making up the FCC Congressional Liaison Team. We get up to Arlington often to see our grandson! My major hobbies are woodworking, building radio controlled model airplanes (yes I still do that, but no more rockets<G>), tennis, reading, and genealogy/family history. I also have held a number of offices in various community organizations and am currently treasurer of the Breakwater Homeowners Association. Marlise is very involved in the community. This spring she was awarded the first annual Community Service Award by Leadership Sandy Springs. A high point for her was when she was invited to the Carter White House for the signing of the act creating the Chatahoochee River National Recreational Area. She was chairperson of "Friends of the River" and on the coordinating council for groups promoting the creation of the National Recreational Area. Currently she is on three board of directors, treasurer of the Sandy Springs Council of Neighborhoods (an organization representing 150 homeowner associations in Sandy Springs), and on the Fulton County Juvenile Court's Foster Child Care Advisory Panel. We both keep very busy! I am in regular contact with Warren Wickelgren and hear from Fred Davis and Ray Durand once or twice a year (they were in the class of ’58). Ray visits us every summer on his way north for vacation. I would be glad to hear from any of the friends and acquaintances from Hammond High days.
Best Friends...
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| Larry Crozier and Alan Gibbs sign on to join the Navy and see the world in this 1959 photo. |
Still friends after all these years! Larry Crozier and
Alan Gibbs still stay in touch and pal around together. Always good to get
back together and talk about Hammond High School memories. |
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Warren Wickelgren
Pictured here in a 1999 photo from the University of Colorado
where
Dr. Warren Wickelgren received an "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" award.
Warren teaches physiology and biology in Denver, CO, at the University of
Colorado.
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