For Hillsdale alumna Ruta Sepetys ’90, writing about tragic periods of history sometimes stings — but as the title of her new book puts it, these stories are as essential as “Salt to the Sea.” The New York Times bestselling novelist shines light into dark corners of history in her third novel, released Feb. 2,...
Jan. 30, 1945: Thousands of refugees huddle in a repurposed German luxury liner, desperate to escape the death throes of the Nazi regime. Aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, the decks are crowded, the night is dark, and the silence is haunting. And then a sound tears through the ship, signalling the beginning of the end: Bang....
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...
When alumna Claire Ziegler ’15 graduated from Hillsdale with a degree in music, she had no idea she would eventually be auditioning and working as a voice-over actor for national businesses. For the past year, Ziegler has been working as a commercial voice-over actor, promoting herself nationally in a career she says she just stumbled...
When Hillsdale alumna Kjerstin Ostlind was a senior in 2008, she wrote two theses — one, a typical thesis on a Roman poet. Her second, a compilation of her original poems. The combination of these two aspects of her undergraduate career have led Kjerstin Ostlind ’08, now Kjerstin Kauffman, to her work in poetry...