Linda Hobbet Hobbet

Profile Updated: May 25, 2016
Linda Hobbet
Residing In Athens, GA USA
Occupation or Retired? Retired
Yes! Attending Reunion
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After graduating from Smith College in 1970 with a double major in studio art and zoology I worked as a research assistant, first at the Duke University Primate Center and then at the Rockefeller University Research Center in Millbrook New York, where I met my husband.

I went with him to Berkeley, California where he was a graduate student in ethology (animal behavior) while I worked for a geotechnical consulting company doing graphics and technical illustration. The most interesting project I had was when they set me to Alaska to plot the potential flow of spills from the Alaska Pipeline. I stayed for a winter and took an extension class from the University in dog sledding while I was there.

Ken and I spent half a year in Serengeti, Tanzania on a prize from Rolex Watch Company to study African Wild Dogs. We later separated and I worked as a computer programmer for 20 years.

When I retired I moved to Athens, Georgia for the lower cost of living and have returned to my artistic roots doing ceramic sculpture and etching. I am making plans for another move to Durham, NC to be closer to family. I will be living in a cohousing community that I am working with a group of people to get built. We have a beautiful piece of land and are hoping to be ready to move in by late 2018.

I currently live with an 11-year-old Airedale Terrier named Lola and a 1-year-old Sealyham Terrier named Gimli.

Favorite School Story?

The Art Club made a float for the Homecoming parade one year. It was a Campbell's Soup Can for Cream of Rocket soup, in the style of Andy Warhol. WFB was playing the Rockets that year. We mounted it on top of a car and because I had very long hair I sat with it waving a Cream the Rockets protest sign. We didn't win the best float but I heard later the committee thought the soup can looked so authentic that they assumed we had appropriated an advertising display for Campbell's soup. Not so, we actually built it from scratch in my family's garage.

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