2021 Lilly Scholar Logan Weilbaker

“This May I graduated summa cum laude from Wabash College with a Bachelor of Arts in theater and classics, and I was honored to be one of the commencement speakers for the class of 2025. My last year at Wabash was a great one, full of challenges and bittersweet ‘lasts.’ In January, I took senior comprehensive exams — four written and one oral — and earned the highest distinction in both of my majors. In the following months, I directed a production of 12 Angry Men, my senior capstone project, which sold out every night (including two added shows) and I was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for doing so. I continued as Managing Editor of our school newspaper, The Bachelor, and took on the role of social media manager, bringing home two first-place awards for my writing at the Indiana Collegiate Press Association contest, while The Bachelor was named DIII Newspaper of the Year for the third year in a row. In August, I will move to the Czech Republic for a year, where I will teach English on a Fulbright grant.”