After five and a half years working for Hillsdale College, alumna and former Assistant Director of Career Services Sophia Donohoe ended her career at the college to begin a new chapter with her husband in Columbus, Ohio. Donohoe spent a total of 10 years with the college, first as a student and then as...
When Beth Walker ’87 road-tripped with fellow Hillsdale students to Washington, D.C., one spring break, she had a blast touring the city and getting an insider tour of the U.S. Supreme Court — but she didn’t realize the trip was a “preview” of her future, as she calls it now. Designed by the same architect,...
Looking at a yearbook, Judy Knapp can pick out many of her mom’s classmates; she remembers them from a decades-long “round-robin” chain letter that her mother’s friend Martha Kuehn orchestrated for six members of Hillsdale’s classes of 1937 and 1938. Now, as the last living member of the correspondence, Kuehn sends Knapp postcards to stay...
For 2012 alumna Caitlyn Larsen, work means playing with fire. Larsen is a stuntwoman for “Marvel Universe LIVE!,” a live-action stunt show featuring characters from Marvel storylines. Larsen plays Nebula, a character from “Guardians of the Galaxy.” “I basically grew up and decided I was going to keep playing with toys for a living,” Larsen...
One summer in the 1970s, while driving home from discussing art theory in a watercolor class, alumna Linda Shiffler noticed things didn’t look the same. “I saw things in a completely different light,” she said. “That a tree isn’t black, or it isn’t grey, or it isn’t brown, it’s a mixture of many colors. And...