What is the most memorable gift you’ve ever received? My wife, Amy, arranged for me to spend a few days at a house of studies for the Dominican Order. At the time, I was completing my dissertation on the Dominicans. What is one memory from your childhood that stands out to you? It was the...
Who knew the words of a stranger could be some of the most intimate? On a summer day in Traverse City, passersby let the T.C. Street Poet craft their vulnerabilities into touching poems. Though she kept her identity a secret that day, she happens to be one of Hillsdale’s very own. Senior Mary Caroline Whims...
What is one thing on your bucket list? I want to go visit the cathedrals of Frances like Chartres. That’s one of the reasons I’m working on the French language right now. What is one memory from your college years that stands out to you? There is the time my best friends and I had...
Calls to Hillsdale’s contact center about online educational resources have increased in the past months, as more American parents consider homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Especially with COVID, a lot of people were calling because their public school systems were planning or had already decided to do virtual schooling for this fall,” Contact Center Team...
If you could personally attend one of the performances of any music composer throughout history, who would you choose? I would attend a concert in Vienna of a Beethoven symphony. Although I would have to say, too, if I could hear Ella Fitzgerald live, that would be amazing. If you could be in “Guinness World...