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Blast from the Past: Hillsdale Homecoming in 1968
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Blast from the Past: Hillsdale Homecoming in 1968

  An announcement concerning the schedule of events for Homecoming 1968 was included in the June 1 issue of the Hillsdale Alumni Magazine.  Homecoming 1968 (June 1, 1968)   Homecoming, 1968 at Hillsdale is scheduled for the most beautiful time of the year in the colorful hills of Southern Michigan. It features a football game...

Alumni release album, ‘Lost Mary’
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Alumni release album, ‘Lost Mary’

Somewhere in early April of my freshman year, I found myself attending the 11:30 a.m. Sunday Mass at St. Anthony’s nearly every weekend. This was not because I loved the semi-Latin liturgy. I had found a place to drink, sing, and smoke indoors on late Saturday nights. Most current Hillsdale students are too young to...

An alumnus’ spiritual survey reaches ‘An Immovable Feast’
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An alumnus’ spiritual survey reaches ‘An Immovable Feast’

Tyler Blanski ’06 came to Hillsdale wanting to be a saint; he just didn’t know it yet.  These were danger days, when the strains of Minnesota sweet-strumming evangelicalism clashing with the lo-fi screeches of Beck’s “The New Pollution” rattled around inside his head. Both were pulling him toward Christ, but he did not know how....