GLIAC Freshman of the Year and First-Team All-GLIAC honoree Halle Hyman had been on the radar of Hillsdale College’s tennis team since her junior year of high school as one of the top junior tennis players in Michigan. “I had been following her record,” women’s tennis coach Nikki Walbright said. “I’d seen her play in...
When Hillsdale alumna Kjerstin Ostlind was a senior in 2008, she wrote two theses — one, a typical thesis on a Roman poet. Her second, a compilation of her original poems. The combination of these two aspects of her undergraduate career have led Kjerstin Ostlind ’08, now Kjerstin Kauffman, to her work in poetry...
In the frigid, early-morning Saturday of fall, local vendors for the Hillsdale Farmers Market wake up early to assemble in the parking lot under the shadow of city hall and come together for commerce. Gina Gray, the head cook at Hillsdale Community Schools at Gier, has come to the farmers market to sell her bread,...
External Affairs | Courtesy The nearly vacant block on Manning Street just south of campus could soon be full of new homes owned by Hillsdale College supporters. One college supporter — alumnus William Brodbeck ‘66 — has already begun construction on one of the empty lots that he bought from the college. The school plans...
After more than a half-century of publishing Hillsdale students’ creative writing, the Tower Light is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a reunion during homecoming weekend. Amid the return of many other students and alumni, both the founder of the Tower Light, Rich Hill, and Kjerstin Kauffman ’09, who has her master’s degree in poetry from...