Where the Great Wall of China meets the coast of the Yellow Sea, a two-hour train ride east of Beijing, Hannah Talkington ’16 teaches English to almost 300 students every day. This fall she began her second year teaching spoken English to college students in Qinhuangdao, a city of 3 million people in northeastern China....
As campus says hello to autumn, faculty duo ReadyGO will reminisce on summer with a performance featuring “Makrokosmos III: Music for a Summer Evening” by avant-garde composer George Crumb. ReadyGO — comprised of teachers of music Stacey Jones-Garrison on percussion and Brad Blackham on piano — will be performing at 8 p.m. on Saturday in...
Sophomore Kiara Freeman awoke on a Monday morning to a text reading: “How busy are you this semester?” That afternoon she found herself with senior Mehgan Cain in a WRFH Radio Free Hillsdale meeting, where the duo joined the growing number of student shows on 101.7 FM. They recorded their first episode of comedy show...
When World War I broke out, there was no federal intelligence community, no CIA, FBI, or NSA. There was Elizebeth Smith Friedman. The 1915 Hillsdale alumna remains one of history’s all-time best code breakers, influential in the development of America’s intelligence-gathering bodies. Her expertise brought officials from the FBI, U.S. Navy, and Treasury Department knocking...
“The fair!” These were the first words I heard from novelist and short story writer Joy Williams as John Somerville, professor of English and director of the Visiting Writers Program, introduced her at Monday night’s reading for her visit Sept. 25 and 26. Joy’s list of accolades is long — she was nominated for the...