Category: Features

Huddling beneath umbrellas and pulling hoodies tighter over their heads, hundreds thwarted drizzling rain and chilly temperatures Sunday afternoon to buy one of Hillsdale County Fair’s most popular treats: Donut Hut donuts. Inside the hut, 10 volunteers swiftly mix, fry, frost, and package donuts, attempting to keep up with the demand. “Walt has a way...

“It started with a sticker. That was the birth of the whole thing.” Austin Holsinger, ’11, founded Great Lakes Proud, a bumper sticker brand, in March after graduating from Hillsdale College. This was not Holsinger’s first experience in entrepreneurship. While studying business and marketing management, Holsinger ran a golf club repair business and started a...

Junior John Bell works an office job at Jag Industrial & Marine Services in Jonesville, Michigan, but he never imagined that a Sigma Chi connection could land him on the United States’ third largest aircraft carrier in Japan.  “The owner’s son is my big in Sigma Chi,” Bell said. “I got introduced to a job...

Since graduating from Hillsdale College in 2007, Will Dunham has risen to the position of Republican Study Committee executive director on Capitol Hill. It is quite the feat, especially for someone who was not always interested in politics. Will and his wife, Anna ’10 (née Leutheuser) were both English majors. Despite having “zero political inclinations”...

The 54-year-old man has laugh lines around his mouth and eyes, both from smiling frequently and squinting through his camera’s viewfinder. Recently, photography instructor Douglas Coon entered ArtPrize, an annual art competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Last year, over 400,000 visitors attended ArtPrize, with art from 47 countries and all 50 states. Running from Sept....