Robert Hines - 1984
MHS 1943 Graduate
The Minerva High School Alumni Hall of Fame was instituted in 1984 when the Advisory Committee from Minerva High School chose Dr. Robert H. Hines as its first inductee. Hines, MHS Class of 1943, is the attending physician for Minerva High School sports events. MHS Athletic Director Bernard Marcinkowey said, "Dr. Hines has made 9000 visits in the course of his sports event attendance. We are the only Senate League team with an attending physician--and Dr. Hines always makes sure he has a replacement for the times he is unable to attend." Marcinkowey added, "I have been here for eleven years and in that time, I didn't just meet a physician, I met a friend."
In 1941, while in high school, he commenced two years of a special pre-med course at Mount Union College. All this was accomplished with excellence and in addition he was one of the Tri-County's outstanding dribblers and shooters on the 1942 Minerva High basketball team.
Dr. Hines is a graduate of Mount Union College, George Washington University, interned at Akron City Hospital and has been practicing medicine in Minerva since 1950. His focus has been on General Practice and Pediatrics.
He has been a member of the school board, is a Lions Club member, received the Minerva Jaycee Distinguished Service Award in 1966, and the inter-club Man of the Year award in 1983. He has also been honored with an award from the Ohio State Athletic Association. Dr. Hines was the chairman of the citizen's group that helped pass a school bond issue for the present high school.
Dr. Hines confessed that this honor conferred on him was very "emotional, very traumatic." He added in a message to the students present at the Honors Banquet, "What you do and whatever you've done, you owe to your parents and teachers.
Dr. Hines said his favorite writers were Thomas Paine and William H. McGuffy who came from Ohio and wrote the McGuffy readers. He quoted from a reader, "Work while you work, play while you play, one thing at a time. All that you do, do with all your might. Things done by half are not done right."
Dr. Hines has two children, Dixie (Mrs. Glenn Reynolds) of Virginia and Randall of Wisconsin. Dr. Hines and his wife Jean live in Minerva.