Thanksgiving at Hillsdale College
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 ā¢ 649 Ratings
šļø 24 November 2023
ā±ļø 19 minutes
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Summary
Host Scot Bertram talks with Bill Gray,Ā chiefĀ marketingĀ officer andĀ viceĀ president forĀ marketing, about the culture of thanks at Hillsdale College, the impact Hillsdale has had on his own life, and how to include Hillsdale in yourĀ Giving TuesdayĀ plans.
To learn more about Hillsdale's commitment to our country's founding principles, read George Washington and Thomas Jefferson's Thanksgiving proclamations, and watch a special address from Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn, visit ourĀ Thanksgiving landing page.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Scott Bertram, host of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. |
| 0:10.2 | Here to wish you a happy Thanksgiving in this special brief edition of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. |
| 0:16.6 | We'll be joined by Bill Gray, chief marketing officer at Hillsdale College. |
| 0:20.7 | We'll talk a bit about Thanksgiving here at Hillsdale and how Hillsdale College might fit into your plans for Giving Tuesday. |
| 0:28.9 | Bill, thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:30.8 | It's great to see you, Scott. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm happy to be here. |
| 0:32.5 | People might have seen your name in emails. |
| 0:35.0 | They have received in their inbox, but they haven't heard your voice. |
| 0:38.4 | And they don't know your story. So who's Bill Gray and how did you become chief marketing |
| 0:42.8 | officer here at Hillsdale? Why does the college mean something to you? The college means a lot |
| 0:46.9 | to me, Scott. It's a place where I grew so much when I was a student here. I came here in 97, |
| 0:53.6 | graduated from the college in 2001. |
| 0:56.1 | I majored in English, minored in biology, started out as pre-med and got bit by the liberal arts |
| 1:01.9 | bug and never looked back. That's where the money is. Yeah, that's right. It's English majors |
| 1:06.6 | in the world. If you're an English major out there and you think you can't make it, |
| 1:11.6 | you know, I'm living proof about that. So anyway, the college helped me with that. It also helped me |
| 1:17.4 | with just learning who I was as a person, what I cared about. College is also the place I met my |
| 1:22.7 | wife, although we didn't get married until after college. And it's been the place where I've |
| 1:27.4 | been able to build a career for the last 11 years or so. And it's just a very special place. So I'm really excited to talk to you about it. And I've been blessed to serve as chief marketing officer for about two years now. Before that, I did marketing. I've worked in fundraising, as you mentioned. And yeah, I send a lot of email, but I always tell people, I always read the emails as they get sent out. |
| 1:46.7 | And I love it when people write back. |
| 1:48.5 | We love hearing from our audience and from our donors, especially because they're the ones that make this place tick. |
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