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1996 – Craig L. Howe, a Hillsdale alumnus, submits a letter detailing a youthful exploit from 1968: some members of Alpha Tau Omega snuck downtown to the railroad tracks and boarded one of the idling train engines. They were led by one David Plagman, who knew how to operate the controls. The brothers first took the locomotive a few hundred yards and back; later, to Jonesville to get ice cream; and one day, 45 miles to Marshall, Mich. By this time, they were suspected by the police, but the ATOs abandoned their vehicle near the end of their return and escaped back up the hill.

 

  -Compiled by Dane Skorup