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...
Sixteen alumni from the class of ’67 and five from the class of ’57 gathered on campus last week for the alumni reunion: a week of cocktails, dinners, and tours. Art Robell ’57, Dorothy Olsson Messinger ’57, and Robert “Bob” Messinger ’54 sat together on couches on the upper level of the Dow Leadership Center,...
Tens of thousands of ships crisscross global waters, and four years from now, senior Margaret Handel will be working on one of them. After graduating from Hillsdale, Handel won’t be getting a Ph.D. in economics as she once thought. She will be studying to become a third mate in the U.S. body of commercial ships...
When Brandon Irish ’07 accidentally knocked over a statue in Professor of Art Tony Frudakis’ studio as a freshman, he collided with the world of sculpting. According to Irish, he was studying music at the time and was only taking Frudakis’ class at the suggestion of his older brother. While he was working on a...
A few years ago when St. Peter’s Free Clinic would open its doors on Tuesday nights, volunteers could expect patient numbers in the triple digits. But last Tuesday, only three people came. “This is the fewest people I’ve seen in the 13 years I’ve been volunteering here,” said Elsie Hayward, who was a registered nurse...