Last week seniors Kirsten Block and Roxanna West and sophomores Emily Goodling and Alisha Pehlert represented Hillsdale at the Eta Sigma Phi national convention in St. Louis, Mo.
Along with other classics honorary members around the region, Block, West, and Pehlert competed in the Greek national translation exams which were taken earlier in the semester. The placeholders were revealed at awards ceremony during the convention. Block placed first in the Koine Greek category while West placed second.
Block also placed third in the advanced Greek category. Pehlert received an honorable mention in the intermediate Greek category.
In addition to the translation com- petitions, Block and Goodling both submitted classics papers which ended up placing among the top four which are selected to be presented at the convention every year. Good- ling’s paper was then selected above the rest as the best paper submitted by a panel of judges who read each paper.
Block, who began learning Greek her freshman year at Hillsdale College,was very impressed by her classics cohorts, and even more so with the classics department. “You can tell after going to the convention that we have a great classics depart- ment. Some schools are struggling to keep the program running, but it’s thriving here at Hillsdale,” Block said.
