For some students, working part-time and being a full-time student takes on a whole new meaning. This is the case for senior Lyndee Wonders and junior David Grumhaus, among others. Wonders has been working for the Addison Fire Department, since July 2014. She completed her EMT-B, a four-month Basic Level Emergency Medical Technician class, and...
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Follow your harp: Musician finds harp after 40-year search
Diane Dunn knew her long-lost harp was somewhere behind Yorba Linda Street’s mile of locked doors. So she started ringing doorbells. She had recently found her first clues in 40 years: the street name, and an empty harp case with her name on it. Diane Dunn’s search for her lost harp didn’t end on Yorba...
‘Love, Laughter and Dreams’: Celebrating 65 years of marriage
In a 1947 Chicago suburb, a female lifeguard showed a young man just back from two years in the Navy how to do a reverse dive into the community pool. Now, the two are celebrating 65 years of marriage and the 12 children, 39 grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren their family has grown to include. “She...
LaRose lands AEI award
Senior Eric LaRose was recently announced as one of six 2016-2017 Young Scholars Award winners by the American Enterprise Institute’s Values and Capitalism Project. This is the second consecutive year a Hillsdale student has won the prestigious award, which includes a $5,000 scholarship and the opportunity for students to defend their research theses in front...
Optimizing Online Learning
Associate Professor of Economics Roger Butters promises his online program can raise students’ test scores by as much as 10 percent. After teaching online for 12 years, Butters said he realized teaching technology, at the time, was archaic and that a traditional textbook was not interactive enough for students. He created the online program ConnectMaster...




