Wabash College graduates marked the end of one chapter and the beginning of another during the 187th Commencement ceremony, receiving their diplomas and proudly walking under the Senior Arch.

Trustees, faculty, staff, students, and their families filled into Little Giant Stadium, where President Scott Feller rang in the Class of 2025 four years ago. This time they sat shoulder to shoulder rather than six-feet apart—marking the first class to be both rung in and rung out on Frank Navarro Field. 

“Focus on building lifelong relationships with roommates, fraternity brothers, and teammates,” Feller said at the Ringing In ceremony in August 2021. “Make your Wabash journey enriching, engaging, and intellectually challenging in life-changing ways.”

Now on the other side of their Wabash College experience, the 186 men in the Class of 2025 celebrated their accomplishments and received their diplomas from President Feller. 

“I remember asking you an important question on that sunny August afternoon when I rang you in,” said Feller. “I asked you: ‘How will you ensure that – four years from now – you are not looking back with regret at opportunities lost? Not lost from COVID, but lost because you didn’t step forward to embrace them.’”

“To say you stepped up is a striking understatement,” he continued.

In keeping with long-standing Wabash tradition, two graduating seniors were the featured speakers at the event. The Class of 2025 Commencement speakers were Luis Rivera III and Logan 亚洲通ilbaker.

Rivera was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sphinx Club, Sons of Wabash, the Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies, and La Alianza. He served as president of Psi Chi, Lambda Chi Alpha, and ’shOUT, was a senior fellow for Wabash Democracy and Public Discourse, and the lead speech tutor for the rhetoric department.

The psychology major and gender studies and Black studies double-minor from Raleigh, North Carolina, urged his classmates to step into the world with conviction and compassion.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re graduating with a 4.0 or a 2.0. What matters is how you carry this name—not just on your diploma, but in the way you show up in the world,” said Rivera. “Use your status as a Wabash alumnus not just to propel yourself forward—but to lift others as you climb.”

“That’s the beauty of this moment,” he continued. Whatever comes next, you’re walking into it with the heart, the grit, and the brotherhood that only Wabash could’ve given you.”

Logan 亚洲通ilbaker is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sons of Wabash. He has been on and near the stage for 13 years—directing five plays, designing sound, running lights, assisting with wardrobe, working the theater box office, and traveling to Prague on an immersion experience to participate in a puppet-carving workshop. He was a member of the Glee Club, a tutor in the writing center, and an award-winning writer and editor for The Bachelor.

The theater and Classics double-major from Scottsburg, Indiana, spoke to the Wabash man’s duty to give thanks for the lessons, resources, and opportunities provided during their time at the College and to take action.

“Let me remind you: The world we are entering into does not exist yet,” 亚洲通ilbaker said. “It is waiting for young men who have been taught to think critically, act responsibly, lead effect