This Sunday, Veterans Day, Hillsdale College faculty, staff, and students will remember friends and family members who have served in the U.S. armed forces. Here is the story of one college employee and her father, Donald Mees. Sorting through a pile of photographs and letters she’d gathered over the years, Jennifer Ellair, a Hillsdale...
In the 1970s—back before commercial irony—the soda company Faygo ran a wildly successful TV ad featuring a group of adults boarding a steamboat and singing arm-in-arm about their favorite childhood memories. It’s hard to tell what exactly is being sold until the very end, when the boat paddles off into the sunset. The lotus-drinkers conclude...
Emilia Heider’s first photography experience was shooting pictures of rose bushes with a “crappy digital camera” in junior high. Today, her work is frequently featured on the cover of The Forum, Hillsdale College’s literary magazine, and friends tell her she should work for National Geographic. “My dad’s hobby was photography,” said Heider, who is a...
Eric Benedict, the new The Rockwell Lake Lodge chef, has turned the lodge’s restaurant into the only 100 percent Michigan-sourced kitchen in the state. In May 2018, Benedict became the chef and Hospitality Manager of Rockwell Lake Lodge, which is a bed and breakfast owned and operated by the college and located in Luther, Michigan....
Five years ago, Olivia Allen ’13 was taking photos for Simpson Residence during homecoming week and snapping photos on the sidelines at football games. Today, Olivia and her husband Jonathan are full time missionaries for Youth With a Mission in Paris, France. While she was a student at Hillsdale, Olivia was on a pre-med track...