Not everyone in Mossey Library this week is stumbling through hell week. A handful of GOAL volunteers devote an hour a week each to digitizing the 23 microfilms housing old editions of The Reading Hustler, a weekly newspaper, dating from 1891 to about 1953. They are led by Debbie Reister, a member of the Mitchell...
When Gretchen Roth ’06 learned that her and her sister’s brainchild, Shakespeare in the Arb, has become a tradition at Hillsdale College, she said it delighted her. “I’m extremely surprised,” Roth said. “The sheer genius and fun of Shakespeare are one of many favorite memories from Hillsdale College … Shakespeare is timeless and classic. There’s...
When a house changes hands twice in one day, something may be amiss. That’s exactly what happened when George Munro sold his Jonesville, Michigan house to his across-the-street neighbor Ebenezer Grosvenor for $2,500 on Oct. 1, 1864. Only hours later, Grosvenor sold the house back to Munro for $500. Neither Grosvenor nor Munro’s descendants know...
Senior Ria Harju said she didn’t plan on being a theater major when she came to Hillsdale College. And although she has been involved in the theater department since her freshman year, her love for design, she said, was also accidental. Yet audience members of the last Tower Dancers’ performance saw her design work —...
John Spiteri fell in love with rock music at a J. Geils concert at Hillsdale College back in 1973. He was a junior at Hillsdale High School, working in his father’s shoe store. Seven years later, with this passion for music and a $1,000 loan, John loaded his parents’ car with records and drove to...