Two Waldorf College faculty and staff members were honored with one of the school’s most prestigious annual awards - the Holmen Professional Excellence Award. Professor Joe Wilkins, director of creative writing and assistant professor of English, and Brian Keely, director of campus dining/Aramark received the award at the annual faculty/staff recognition dinner on Friday, April 30.
Sheryl Fitzpatrick, chair of the Waldorf College business and economics department and associate professor, received the school’s most prestigious faculty honor—the Board of Trustees Outstanding Faculty Award—at the annual faculty/staff recognition dinner on Friday, April 30.
The Waldorf College softball team traveled to Ames on Saturday to play in the Midwest Collegiate Conference Final Four Tournament. The Warriors were eliminated after falling to MountMercy in the first game, 5-1, and losing to William Penn in the second game, 12-1, in five innings.
Dr. Joseph Manjone, president of Waldorf College presented Sarah Leichsenring of Clarion, Iowa, with the prestigious President's Award during commencement exercises on Saturday, May 1. The award is given annually to a senior whose records show outstanding academic achievement, leadership, character and service—a student who reflect the highest ideals of the mission of Waldorf College. The selection process involves a vote by members of the senior class and input from faculty and staff members.
For more than 30 years, the Waldorf College Athletics Department has held its annual end-of-the-year athletics banquet. Honors given and acknowledged at the event include Conference and National Academic and Team honors as well as Waldorf awards such as the Lions Club Award - given to one senior female and one senior male based on character and sportsmanship - and the Honor Athlete Award, that is also given to one male and one female athlete voted on by their fellow student athletes.
After going 2-0 on Saturday, the Waldorf College softball team saw rain on Sunday that postponed their game against Grand View University, but it turns out that the Warriors wouldn’t need to play Grand View to get to the final four anyway.
Game one of the three game weekend series with Iowa Wesleyan turned out to be a battle through and through as the Warriors were defeated in extra innings, 12-11. The Warriors are 0-1 in the weekend series with a double header yet to play on Sunday.