Romeoville High School's Hill Earns Hearing Advocacy Award

Submitted by Valley View School District:

The Illinois Academy of Audiology has selected Romeoville High School Assistant Band Director Adam Hill as its 2015 Natalie Stukas Hearing Conservation Award winner.

Issued annually for “excellence in achievement, advocacy, education or research in the area of hearing conservation,” the award will be presented at a Jan. 29, 2015 luncheon in Chicago.

Hill, who also serves as RHS Director of Percussion and a music education teacher, has been an advocate of hearing health for several years.

“I have promote the need to be healthy, the need to wear earplugs, and the need to be conscious about what’s going to all of my student ensembles because people lose their hearing when they don’t pay attention to it,” Hill said. “Even if they just play in high school and never touch another instrument, that is potentially countless hours of damage to their ears.”

A Romeoville High School graduate who grew up in Bolingbrook, Hill has been with RHS since 2005. He is a past winner of the the Roseanne Rosenthal Excellence in Teaching Award from the Vandercook School of Music and serves on the drumlines for both the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago Bears.

“It feels good that they recognize that I’ve bene pushing hearing safety and wellness,” Hill said. “It’s something that is affecting a lot of people. When you get older and wonder why you can’t hear, it was because when you were 14 you did not wear ear protection for all those years.”