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Hillsdale alum signs pro contract in Spain
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Hillsdale alum signs pro contract in Spain

After playing professional basketball in Luxembourg for a year, 2014 Hillsdale graduate Tim Dezelski signed his second professional contract at the beginning of January with BVM 2012, a team based in Mieres, Spain. Dezelski had a successful 30-3 season with his first professional team, the Residence Walferdange, in Luxembourg, averaging 17 points and 16 rebounds...

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Stop ‘busy bragging’

Finals time brings to light a social quirk many Hillsdale students seem to possess. Throughout the academic year, and most obviously during finals, students identify and take pride in how busy they are. Take a stroll through AJ’s at 11 p.m. and eerily similar conversations can be heard from booth to booth. One student will...

College supporter flies handmade gyrocopter around country
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College supporter flies handmade gyrocopter around country

Jerry Wilhelm | Courtesy President’s Club member Jerry Wilhelm built a gyrocopter in 2011 , an he now flies frequently in Traverse City, Michigan, and Florida. President’s Club member and Hillsdale supporter Jerry Wilhelm has a biannual tradition of attending a Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar in the fall and graduation in the spring —...

Claire Ziegler ’15 pursues career as commercial voice-over actor
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Claire Ziegler ’15 pursues career as commercial voice-over actor

When alumna Claire Ziegler ’15 graduated from Hillsdale with a degree in music, she had no idea she would eventually be auditioning and working as a voice-over actor for national businesses. For the past year, Ziegler has been working as a commercial voice-over actor, promoting herself nationally in a career she says she just stumbled...

Hillsdale alum begins coaching career while pursuing master’s degree
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Hillsdale alum begins coaching career while pursuing master’s degree

When young athletes realize their dreams of making it to the pros aren’t a reality, they are often devastated. When that day came for Michael Furlong, he wasn’t discouraged; after all, coaching basketball was in his blood. “It started with my dad,” Furlong said. “He coached high school basketball as I was growing up and...