Bisel will have lived a full century on December 11. Courtesy | Lisa Hamilton “I love you to the moon and back,” said 99-year-old Betty Bisel. She says this as often as she can to everyone she meets. Bisel will celebrate 100 years of life with a huge party on Dec. 11 at the Hillsdale...
Audience members swing dance to jazz played by the Harry James Orchestra. Courtesy | Anna Northcutt More than 900 people filled Hillsdale College’s Searle Center for an evening of jazz, swing dancing, cocktails, desserts and a performance by the Harry James Orchestra Nov. 15. Fred Radke, conductor of the Harry James Orchestra, and Hillsdale’s artist...
Freshman Maxon Versluys (third from right) hunting with his cousins. Courtesy | Maxon Versluys Dennis “Gate Guy” Cook shot his first deer around age 16. “Grandma would cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all the hunters, so it made opening day kind of like a holiday,” Cook said. Cook is one of many hunting aficionados...
Harvey Peters ’22 serves at his field-work church, Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Courtesy | Harvey Peters What happens when God changes your post-grad plans? For some Lutheran Hillsdale alumni, that means seminary. Nine Hillsdale alumni are currently enrolled in the two Lutheran Church Missouri Synod seminaries in the U.S., following a four-year...
Featuring original music by Hillsdale alumnus Ethan Graham ’25, “The Book of Will” explores how English playwright William Shakespeare lives on through his writings. The Tower Players will premiere the historic account of Shakespeare’s friends collecting his writings in “The Book of Will,” written by American playwright and screenwriter Lauren Gunderson, this week with performances...