1966 — Ground is broken for the much-needed Mary Proctor Randall Preschool, serving the entire Hillsdale community, town-and-gown. The “spaceship’s” namesake had graduated from Hillsdale College 60 years prior.
1975 — In response to increasing federal control over higher education, Hillsdale College’s board of trustees drafts its famous resolution to “with the help of God, resist by all legal means this and all other encroachments on [Hillsdale’s] freedom and independence.” To this end, the first $29 million campaign goal by the college’s new “Freedom Fund” would be reported a dramatic success exactly five years later. The Reagan era and Grove City v. Bell lay ahead.
1977 — In a rare show of respect for classical architecture in the 1970s, Hillsdale College purchases and renovates the John Cook house at 139 Hillsdale St. as a home for Delta Sigma Phi. The Italianate mansion, renamed the “Watkins House,” now houses sophomore men.
-Compiled by Dane Skorup