Pat Sajak to Speak at Hillsdale College Commencement

Pat Sajak to Speak at Hillsdale College Commencement

Former game show host will address Hillsdale College class of 2024

Hillsdale College will host its 172nd commencement ceremony on May 11. Chairman of the Hillsdale College Board of Trustees and former Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak will address the graduating class.

WHEN

Saturday, May 11
2 p.m. EDT

WHERE

While the event is closed to media, a livestream is available here. For additional coverage of the event, follow @HillsdalePR on Twitter.

Photos will be made available at this link during and immediately following the event. For photos from previous commencements and a headshot of Pat Sajak, click here. For a high-resolution copy of the Hillsdale College clocktower logo, click here.

WHO

Pat Sajak has been the host of Wheel of Fortune longer than anyone has hosted any program in the history of American television. He joined the show in 1981 and has been at the helm for more than 7,000 episodes. He began his broadcasting career as a radio announcer in Chicago in 1967, while attending Columbia College. He left school to join the Army in 1968 and served as the morning disc jockey on the American Forces Vietnam Network in Saigon. Following his military service, his career took him to Washington, D.C., Kentucky, Tennessee, and, in 1977, to Los Angeles. Less than five years later, he was named the host of Wheel of Fortune. He previously served as a board member at the Claremont Institute in California when it was headed by Dr. Arnn. Sajak has served on Hillsdale’s Board of Trustees since 2002. He was the vice chairman from 2003 to 2019 and was named chairman in 2019. He and his wife Lesly have two grown children and split their time between California and Maryland.

About Hillsdale College

Hillsdale College is an independent, nonsectarian, Christian liberal arts college located in southern Michigan. Founded in 1844, the College has built a national reputation through its classical liberal arts core curriculum and its principled refusal to accept federal or state taxpayer subsidies, even indirectly in the form of student grants or loans. It also conducts an outreach effort promoting civil and religious liberty, including a free monthly speech digest, Imprimis, with a circulation of more than 6.6 million. For more information, visit hillsdale.edu.

Emily Stack Davis | 517-803-3745 | PR@hillsdale.edu

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