Rosemary Surdyke
Digital Content Coordinator
B.A. Philosophy and Religion, Hillsdale College
Rosemary Surdyke, a ‘24 Hillsdale graduate, joins the K-12 Education Department as the Digital Publications Coordinator. She supports the Publications Office through the management of the K-12 Education websites and the K-12 Library. She first encountered classical education upon her arrival at Hillsdale as a freshman. After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Religion, Rosemary served as a missionary, founded a photography business, and worked for her family business.
What is the most inspiring part of your job?
“Knowing that the education provided by the Hillsdale College K-12 Education Department is desired gives me great hope. Having educators, parents, and students who know and love the Good, the True, and the Beautiful is world-altering.”
Favorite classical quote
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously—no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner—no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses.” —C.S. Lewis