No one is ever too old or ungraceful to learn to dance, Junior Annalise Harrison said. Based on her rapid progress over just three years, her experiences render the statement true. Harrison began social dance lessons just three years ago, but is already assistant-teaching social and ballroom dance classes at Hillsdale and competing with other non-professionals (those not paid to...
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Playing dress-up to give preschoolers a step up
During story time in Sue Walberg’s Head Start preschool classroom, four college volunteers sit criss-cross applesauce among their 3-and-4-year-old peers on the oval-shaped, royal blue rug. Three little bodies squeeze together on the lap of junior Kathryn Wong, who gives a warning glance to a small friend who has begun to shout. Wong is a familiar face to the children...
Winter shorts-wearers answer the question: “Aren’t you cold?”
Between November and February, students dashing from class to class bundled up from head-to-toe will throw shocked and mystified stares at sophomore Daniel Visnovsky, who strides through campus in a sweatshirt, a hat, a scarf, and shockingly, shorts. Men who wear shorts in the cold represent a localized northern U.S. campus phenomenon that garners strange looks, comments, and the question,...
Hillsdale alumnus inventor of cruise control
When Hillsdale students crank up the radio and hit “cruise” to return to school, they benefit from the work of Daniel Wisner, a Hillsdale College alumnus whose invention of automatic cruise control smoothes the ride for road trippers and continues to pave the way for future research in automated driving technology. Daniel Wisner ’55 holds 15 patents in various fields...
Historical Society transcribes Civil War letters from local soldiers
On May 4, 1863, after three days of fighting in the fields of Virginia during the Battle of Chancellorsville, Corpral Hiram Fountain finally found a moment to write home to his family. Hiram Fountain wrote: “I am writing now from the Battle field I am yet unharmed. We have had 3 days fighting. None of importance going on today. This...
Hillsdale alumna runs for West Virginia Supreme Court
Alumna Beth Walker ’87 came within sixth-tenths of 1 percent — 6,951 votes — of being elected to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in 2008. But in 2015, Walker decided she would run again for the upcoming May 10 election. “You can’t just sit on the sidelines and watch, you need to contribute something,” Walker said. “And that’s...
