Born in Texas, Dorothy Bass has made quite the journey in her life. As her father was part of the Navy, she spent most of her childhood and young adult life growing up on the East Coast, where she attended high school, college, and graduate school....
An outsider to The Region since he was born and raised in Houston, Texas, Dick Clarke has made quite the journey in his life. Even if it is what others may call leisure, he’s created a glamorous living for himself out of all that he enjoys to do,...
Sports have an easy way of bringing people together, especially the younger generations. With youth sports, it’s not uncommon for kids to be smiling like angels when they hit their first baseball off a tee, or when their small figures lob up a...
Life’s a good pitcher, in that it’s good at throwing anyone and everyone curveballs. Those tricky pitches can be aimed at anything, too — one’s work life, their health. While these challenges exist for everyone, there’s one man in the...
Nowadays, it’s not rare to find people — especially the teachers of the Earth — who can speak multiple languages, those people even going as far to teach said languages as a full-time job. One of those educators happens to make her living right...
The next generation of leaders will forever be indebted to those who have first-hand seen them come up in their lives, and some of those special influencers happen to be the educators of the world. One of those seminal forces resides right here in...
Keeping himself busy with his teaching career and the management of his own business, Timothy Paul lives and resides in La Porte, making a magnetic mark in The Region. One of his jobs is at La Porte Middle School, where he teaches seventh-grade...
When great people take on big roles in their working lives, just as Lynn Gralik has by becoming the Director of Human Resources (HR) for the City of Valparaiso, lives are bound to be impacted in promising ways. And it’s even more positive when...
Playing around on his uncles’ dairy farms when he was younger, Jon Hook has always frolicked and relished in the beauty of the green farmlands of Indiana’s rural areas, areas that his heart grew fond of, not where he actually grew up. ...
The Region’s full of amazing people and because of the way life goes, sometimes those people move on to brighter endeavors, ones that prompt them to leave the area. For Katie Gollbach — who grew up in Valparaiso and also attended high school...