visited Nov 06

deloar
Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:02:35 +0000

D1 and I attended Hiram’s student visitation day on Nov 11, '06. The weather was miserable…cold and rainy. The football team got clobbered by Wittenberg 35-0 (which was the score at half time!).

The visit was very good. The campus is beautiful. The Hiram folks all day were very personable and frank. D1 visited with profs in pol sci, music and history. Parents met with 3 parents of present students. They offered high praise. It included for two of them some risky situations that their daughters were in and the school and the local police dealt with quickly. Both parents wanted us to know that those things happen in college and that Hiram responded great in dealing with them. One was someone locally hacking into a student web page and turning it into an obscene web site. Another was a young man who got more agressive than the the young woman was comfortable with.

If it was my choice, I would pick Hiram. However, my daughter wants to minor in vocal music and she wasn’t impressed with that there.

The facilities at the school are in very good shape. The campus is not small, but compact. The village of Hiram is neat in a quaint fashion. Some of the depts at the college have houses for their offices and classroom. Feels good.