Bartlett Native Honored at Illinois Wesleyan University Commencement

Posted June 09, 2016 11:00 pm

Kim Hill

BLOOMINGTON, Ill.- Bartlett native Kristina Dehlin received two awards for outstanding academic achievement during recent Commencement ceremonies at Illinois Wesleyan University.

Dehlin, an English-writing and philosophy double major who was graduated summa cum laude, received both the Nikki Kaye Pape President's Club Award for Excellence in Writing and the Donald R. Koehn Memorial Award, which is presented for outstanding achievement in the humanities.

At Illinois Wesleyan Dehlin was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest academic honor society. She was a member of Sigma Tau Delta English honor society, Kappa Delta sorority, staff member of the Tributaries creatives arts journal, and a tutor to students enrolled in philosophy classes.

Illinois Wesleyan is a top tier, national liberal arts university that is exclusively undergraduate. A highly selective institution, Illinois Wesleyan offers 81 majors, minors and programs in a unique curriculum that combines the liberal arts and sciences with professional schools of art, music, theatre, and nursing, and a division of business, and enrolls approximately 1,800 students from 33 states and 24 countries. Illinois Wesleyan is located in the central Illinois community of Bloomington-Normal.

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