Author: Dane Skorup (Dane Skorup)

1958 — Hillsdale College student Thomas Neitling is found bludgeoned to death in his room above the “College Tav” (a café adjacent to campus), his broken and bloodied shotgun lying nearby. Classes ended at noon that day to allow time to travel home for Thanksgiving, but Neitling failed to show up at his 8 a.m....

1900 — The legendary “Grand Old Man of Hillsdale,” benefactor, professor, and theologian Ransom Dunn is laid to rest before the community, in a symbolic conclusion of the 19th century for Hillsdale College. 1914 — The night before a rival football game, a “procession” of Hillsdale students marches downtown and burns a contrived Albion College...

1863 — Hillsdale student and soldier of the Tenth Michigan Cavalry Don A. Hubbell writes to his brother about camp conditions: “I have been very lucky as yet as I have not lost anything but my inkstand and necktie. Others had lost their coats and blankets and even socks off their feet and money from...

DeBacker is the director of Alpha Omega Women’s Care Center, a life-affirming pregnancy resource center on Howell Street in Hillsdale, Mich. The center held a fundraiser called “Spice of Life” Oct. 19 at Hillsdale United Brethren Church with speaker Kirk Walden.   How did you personally get involved with Alpha Omega? I was a young...

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,...