Every May, the high school history class performs a meeting of minds. This is a dramatic presentation of characters from history that the students have chosen to research. They tell their life stories, engage in a conversation written by the students, and answer questions from the audience. In alternating years, the characters come from American History or European History.

In 2013, Hillside’s History Class presented “An Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Feast.”

The characters (in chronological order) were:

Confucius (551- 479 BCE) (Giorgio Lo)
Plato (428 – 347 BCE) (Jackson Alford)
Gaius Julius Caesar (100 – 44 BCE) (Jan Deutsch)
Marcus Antonius (83 – 30 BCE) (Carter Morfitt)
Cleopatra VII Philopator (69 – 30 BCE) (Corinna Nelson)
Augustus Caesar (63 BCE – 14 CE) (Caelan Sun)
Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40 – 93 CE) (Clark Weitkamp)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098 – 1179 ) (Rosie Rogal)
Khubilai Khan (1215 – 1294) (Charlie Catino)
Lorenzo De Medici (1449 – 1492) (Paul Pfenning)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) (Cooper Teixeira)
Ferdinand Magellan(1480 – 1521) (Nicholas Anderson)
Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603) (Isabel Wallace)