Local churches are taking precautionary measures to keep their parishioners safe. After recent shootings in public places, including places of worship, some local Hillsdale churches are revisiting their emergency policies, while others are creating new policies to ensure people are safe in their church communities. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Free Methodist Church, and Hillsdale Church of the Nazarene all have...
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Elizabeth James designs own major, interns at Pentagon
When senior Elizabeth James sat down for lunch at her Pentagon internship, she didn’t plan on explaining the allegory of the cave to her division boss. “He’s one of the most intimidating people you’ll ever meet in your life,” James said. “I was convinced he wouldn’t like me. He comes in and everyone sits up a little straighter and a...
100 years ago, archives chronicled 1918 pandemic
This year marks a full century since the 1918 worldwide influenza pandemic, during which four World War I Hillsdale student draftees came down with the flu. That epidemic was not the worst Hillsdale has seen, however. While the college was not widely harmed by this outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus, it was severely affected by an outbreak of the...
Hillsdale helps make Sacred Heart a classical school success
Six years ago, Sacred Heart Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was nearly 110 years old and on the verge of shutting down. Now, it’s quadrupled in size and is the only classical Catholic school in the Grand Rapids diocese — thanks in large part to the work of Hillsdale graduate Zach Good ‘08, the academy’s dean of faculty and curriculum....
Unsung Heroes of Hillsdale: Mossey Librarian Brenna Wade
Brenna Wade has been a librarian at heart all her life. “I can peg it back to third grade,” said Wade, Hillsdale College’s public services librarian. “We had a dinosaur trivia question every day. The goal was to answer the most trivia questions.” At the beginning of the project, the teacher pointed to a pile of books and told the...
Pulp Michigan: Hillsdale’s lost poet laureate
Expendability is the byword for most of the Gilded Age’s newspaper verse, and the work of Rose Hartwick Thorpe is no exception. Although her 1867 poem “Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight” was of the most popular ballads of the 19th century, by the late 20th, it faded into obscurity. Thorpe began publishing as a 16-year-old growing up in Litchfield, Michigan,...
