The president, the ambassador, the Ethiopian refugees
Scholar documentary tells untold story of Hillsdale’s 100-year union with Ethiopia
On Nov. 2, 1930, a new people clicked the last colors photograph of an Ethiopian prince being crowned emperor. Excitement rushed up their spine while he saw the ceremonies, the guy defined in his memoir. He performedn’t understand Emperor Haile Selassie i’d getting killed decades later on by a communist coup, closing the 3,000-year monarchy.
The photograph got after published by nationwide Geographic in 1931, with a little subscript underneath: “photographer: W. Robert Moore.”
Moore graduated from Hillsdale in 1921 — plus in a page towards the Hillsdale Alumni magazine in 1932, the guy composed, “when Hillsdale provided me with my diploma in 1921 and said your whole world was actually before me personally, I got it quite virtually.”
Coronation in the final Emperor and Empress of Ethiopia, photographed by Robert Moore. This image is published into the June 1931 issue of state Geographic.
This simple digital camera snap started Hillsdale’s nearly 100-year relationship with Ethiopia. It actually was a deep relationship designated from the dedication of a selfless ambassador, Hillsdale alumnus Ross Adair, ’28, (almost a third in the Ethopian senate escaped to Fort Wayne, Indiana, considering Adair).…