High School Hiking Trip Planned

The NWI Times (from northwest Indiana) issue of 15 April 2007 has the story titled "Better than book learning" by Kass Stone. It's about a local teacher from Highland High School who is taking some students hiking on the Appalachian Trail this summer.

"The class was brought to Highland by social studies teacher Robert Blumenthal, who copied the class from one taught by Bob DeRuntz at Chesterton High School.

"For this year's class, Blumenthal will lead his students on a 10-day excursion that will include primitive camping, hiking along the Appalachian Trail and a visit to the site of the Battle of Gettysburg and Harper's Ferry."

After some early summer classroom work, Blumenthal and his 16 students leave for their trip on 9 July.