A late charge gained the Hillsdale College golf team a third place finish at the Kyle Ryman Memorial tournament, finishing just eight strokes behind first place. The tournament was played at the Mohawk Golf and Country Club in Tiffin, Ohio. The team’s three-round score was 877, which tied for third place with Tiffin University and...
Year: 2017
Remember the ladies: Hidden Civil War stories of college women
When Hillsdale student Mary Barnum lost her husband during the Civil War, she dedicated herself to doing all she could for the Union. She became an army nurse and used her widow’s pension of $20 per month to purchase medical supplies for the United States Sanitary Commission. Barnum was not the only Hillsdale woman who...
From dig to display: Swinehart, alumnus find fossils for museum
Before a specimen can be displayed in a museum, it must first be discovered, cleaned, and prepared. During the week of June 10-17, a professor and an alumnus of the biology department worked on fossil digs in Chadron, Nebraska, with the goal of finding specimens to add to the collection in the college’s Daniel...
Ride on the Bible Bus
Larry the Bible Bus, a Kelly green, vintage-looking school bus manned by Eli West, ’17, will be rolling into campus every Sunday beginning Oct. 15 to take students to Pine Ridge Bible Church. The bus, whose name pays homage to Larry the Cucumber from the hit children’s series “Veggie Tales,” is Pine Ridge’s latest investment...
All’s well that starts well
When the wedding of two theater students coincides with the first play of the school year, the production ends up with something rare: a majority freshmen cast. Next week the Tower Players perform Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That Ends Well,” the final production directed by Director of Theatre George Angell. The cast features mostly underclassmen, including...




