“Kind friends and companions, come join me in rhyme Come lift up your voices in chorus with mine Come lift up your voices, all grief to refrain For we may or might never all meet here again.” The opening verse of “Here’s a Health to the Company” began each folk song session ending Poetry Fridays at “the Donnybrook” in its...
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College receives canvases by ‘greatest woman painter’ of Victorian Era
Hillsdale’s permanent art collection has received two new additions: “Ernesta” and “Ernesta’s Shoes,” both remnants of a much larger work by the Victorian artist Cecilia Beaux. Professor of Art Sam Knecht unveiled the paintings, a gift from Ann Arbor resident Anne Natvig, to a faculty audience yesterday. “Anne has been a supporter of the college for many years, and she...
Students honor Professor Olga Muñiz with night of poetry recitations
The dimly lit Heritage Room featured watercolor paintings and collections of Spanish poems by professor Olga Muñiz Sunday when three dozen students and faculty gathered to support her through one of her favorite art forms: poetry. Assistant Professor of Spanish Olga Muñiz, who has taught at Hillsdale for 15 years, is on medical leave this semester as she battles...
‘The Man of Destiny’ provides ‘evening of wit and laughter’
Lights come up in shades of blue and violet on the sitting room of an Italian inn. Napoleon Bonaparte sits at a desk, equally dissatisfied with his meal and the map that sits before him. “The Man of Destiny,” the Corsican conquering Italy with a French army, finds himself miserable in the calm after his victory at Lodi. The late...
