Susan Putnam works at the Mary Randall Preschool. Courtesy | Susan Putnam Susan Putnam, head preschool teacher at Mary Randall Preschool, talks Michigan, Diet Coke geysers, and basketball. What is your favorite childhood memory? Playing card games with my family, especially my grandparents. People talk and laugh easily while playing cards. Our game of choice...
More than 1,000 people attended this week’s CCA lecture series on artificial intelligence — the largest number ever to attend a wintertime CCA, according to Executive Director of Programs Matt Bell. Guests gathered in Hillsdale’s Plaster Auditorium and overflow seating in the Searle Center to attend the four-day CCA lecture series, which explored the consequences...
Moore beekeeps. COURTESY | Cameron Moore Song: “I Ride an Old Paint/ Leavin’ Cheyenne” by Colter Wall (2020) The song, like the whole album, revisits folk and cowboy tunes to praise Wall’s native Saskatchewan and the Great Plains in general. Growing up myself on the edge of the prairie in Kansas, I resonate with...
Hillsdale’s third 2024-2025 Center for Constructive Alternatives will cover artificial intelligence. The event will run from Feb. 2-5 and will include speeches from Erik Larson, journalist and author of “The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do”; Erik Prince ’92, founder of the private military company Blackwater Worldwide; and Aaron...
Who was your childhood hero? Why? My childhood hero was probably Patrick Kane because I always watched hockey with my dad growing up. What is your favorite book/movie character? Favorite character would be Adam Sandler in just about any movie. What is your favorite song? The Painter by Cody Johnson. If you had to become...