Commencement 2022 - Album 8
Samuel Pipiras ’22 was part of the first class of Snodell Scholars to graduate from Wabash. The scholarship program was established by Walt ’68 and Kathy Snodell in 2018 to make a Wabash College education available to a greater number of students from outside the state of Indiana, with a primary focus aimed at the greater Chicagoland region.
Commencement Day opened inside Pioneer Chapel with a thoughtful Baccalaureate sermon titled, “The Rule Going Forward,” given by Rev. Dr. Alex Wimberly ’99. Wimberly encouraged graduates to use the lessons they learned at Wabash moving forward in life, and preached the golden rule, to “truly do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
“What matters is not how smart we are or how successful we become. What matters is how we relate to on another; how we live well together – particularly with those who would be left out or pushed aside. What matters is how we learn to act as gentlemen and responsible citizens,” Rev. Dr. Alex Wimberly ’99 said during the Baccalaureate sermon.
“As we go forward from this place, for some once we cross underneath that arch and welcome the world and all its beautiful and ugly amenities, and for others once you go back to living your daily life, I urge everyone to remember a one piece of advice: fail forward,” Kenny Coleman told his Class of 2022 peers during his address.