SUMMER 2025 | VOL 40 ISSUE 1

The cover of the 2025 edition of The Wartburg Magazine, featuring Owen Grover standing between two shelving units filled with beakers and other science equipment.

COVER PHOTO: Owen Grover ’24 poses in the biology lab in the Science Center.

  • Students sit on the lawn outside Luther Hall circa 1979

  • Photo with multiple items from Jen Dickey's life, including several inclusive children's books, a family photo, manipulatives used to promote fine motor skills, an iPad, and a manual from her work at Sports Authority.

  • Ken Phelps

  • Owen Grover looking at his reflection as a doctor

Campus and Alumni Stories

Class Notes

Stories and updates from Knights in the News

Dr. Londyn Witmer

Dr. Londyn Witmer ’21, West Lawn, Pa., earned a Doctor of Chiropractic at Palmer College of Chiropractic, Davenport, and is an associate chiropractor at Exuberance Chiropractic & Wellness Center, Lakeville, Minn.

In Memoriam

Remembering our fallen Knights

Barbara Henry

CEDAR RAPIDS: Barbara Henry, 53, died Thursday, January 1, 2026 at her apartment in Cedar Rapids. The only child of Dennis and Shirley (Schatzke) Henry, Barbara Kay Henry was born on July 21, 1972. After completing high school in Urbana, she attended Wartburg College.

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