Thursday, April 29, 2010

Maribel Lopez '10 also addressed her class at the Senior Dinner on March 30, 2010. The dinner was held in the Wartburg Ballrooms on campus. View her speech below.


"We have all been asked to share our Wartburg experience...I feel like we could all relate to [these stories] in one way or another...I met this girl on my first day. She ended up being one of the wolves in my wolf pack."
"...Some people say your senior year is the most memorable, but I have to disagree. My sophomore year was the best year. I upgraded to C Lot which was sweet. I'd leave my car outside the Res...I provided Wartburg Security with enough funds to probably pay the whole staff overtime...[My roommates] and I made a parking ticket curtain-really spirited-Be Orange!"
Maribel discussed one trip to the Communication Arts building: "And then we thought, why not be efficient, take some racer scooters, and just go through the skywalks. You're not supposed to do that. It says so on p. 33 of the Wartburg College Handbook...Well we were racing, and I was winning...I wiped out in the cubbies by the Mensa...and this Wartburg maintenance guy was there. He called Wartburg Security on us...The report said 'moving at a high velocity through the skywalks.' We were threatened to get kicked out of the institution if we didn't write an apology letter to maintenance."
"I traveled abroad to Spain my junior year...that was one of the best things I got out of my Wartburg College Career...I hope that those of you who took advantage of travel opportunities--May terms, service trips, Wartburg West, tours-whatever-that you guys cherished it as much as I did. I grew. I grew up."

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Senior Dinner

Blake Haugen a member of the class of 2010 shared these comments at the Senior Dinner on March 30th.
"I decided that my Wartburg experience is like Multi-variable Calculus...A person comes in with one or two dimensions and gets the experience to gain many dimensions....music dimension...athletic dimension...service dimension...leadership dimension...social dimension...and the academic dimension. The coolest part about Wartburg College for me is how you are allowed to choose what dimensions you participate in." -Blake Haugen



No Excuses U - visit to Wartburg

Abbott Middle School Students Visit Wartburg


Students in Matt Freesemann's class at Abbott Middle School had the chance to visit campus after selecting Wartburg as their college of choice for the No Excuses University program. In the lower corner students are shown dining in the Mensa. On the right the whole group posed for a picture on the steps of Old Main after finishing the tour of campus. The trip was a great addition to the program, and the program seems to have made an impact on the students according to Matt, who can be quoted saying, "Thanks again for the Wartburg trip. Our students are still talking about Wartburg and how they can't wait to go to school there after high school."