Rarely does one become famous by spending his time alone. Bud Sellars was the exception. After he moved to Hillsdale in 1880, Albert “Bud” Sellars became a fixture of the Hillsdale community. He was well known for living in a cottage on Lake Baw Beese’s Cedar Island, and because of this, he earned the title of a hermit. However, Sellars...
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Ernesta Drinker and the ‘Gulls at Leland’
You’ve walked by that fractured painting of the tall woman in the yellow dress many times. Perhaps you’ve wondered: what happened to her calves? Lecturer in Art Sam Knecht first stumbled upon the paintings in Ann Arbor at the owner’s apartment. But he immediately knew something was wrong. The main features of the painting remained on the canvas, but it...
Mark Maier, book buyer
Every great library starts with a single book. For Senior Assistant to the Provost Mark Maier, it was only a matter of time before one signed copy of poet Paul Mariani’s book grew into a 3,000 book collection. When Maier studied English at Hillsdale, he frequented the visiting writer series run by Professor of English John Somerville. There, he met...
Eat, sleep, dirt, repeat: Kramer makes a pre-med pit stop at a dirt plant
In the fall of 2020, Gabe Kramer ’20 woke up every day at 5 a.m., drank his coffee, packed his lunch, and went up the hill to start studying for the day. Now, Kramer wakes up at 5 a.m., drinks his coffee, packs his lunch, and heads to the dirt factory. Equipped with his steel-toed boots, gloves, Carhartt belt, hard...
The Collegian: Heralding Truth, Gossip, and Barrett’s Beta pin
Campus-wide humiliation was a rational—and weekly—fear for Hillsdale students of the mid-20th century. “T’other day little Miss Rhea Horst took a tumble in front campus right in front of Dunne and Bradley. All present modestly turned the other way as Rhea got up and betook her blushing self off to a 1:30. It was a case of ‘when a slip...
QUICK HITS: Scot Bertram
What’s your least favorite sport to watch? Soccer. Do you have a bucket list? I don’t. But I have made a New Year’s resolution every year for 20 years now, which is to learn how to play an instrument. I’m one of the biggest music fans that you’ll meet… but I could not get on stage and jam with anyone...
