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Recalling Our Founders
As seniors recover from the excitement and rigor of Orations Week and the rest of the student body settles into the Spring semester, Wyoming Catholic College experiences the typical March routine. Inexperienced underclassmen eagerly champion the sporadic bursts of warm days as harbingers of spring, only to be silenced by a few feet of snow the next day. Juniors are busily producing thesis proposals and finding faculty members to guide them through the upcoming year of research. Seniors are facing the bittersweet reality that their time in Lander is running out. They mourn the impending goodbyes and their departure from this tremendous community. Yet they also look forward with eagerness and determination to the vocations they will embrace after graduation.
In the midst of this regular “cycle of life” at WCC, a remarkable event enlivens the student community: the Founders’ Scholarship Competition. Hosted over two weekends in February, this event is a chance for prospective students to visit Lander and compete for a full-tuition scholarship. More importantly, it is an opportunity for both prospective and current students to reflect on the values and outstanding characters of our founders: Bishop David Ricken, Dr. Robert Carlson, and Fr. Robert Cook. These men, more than 20 years ago, formed and executed the outrageous idea of founding a Catholic liberal arts college in rural Wyoming, in a diocese with “more cows than people.” Inspired by their deep Catholic faith and their dedication to beauty, these men overcame significant adversity to found an institution that, on its face, appears “too good to be true.” Nevertheless, Wyoming Catholic College continues to exist and grow as the only college in the world where young people can read the Great Books, ride horses, climb crags, scale peaks, and worship together in the truth of the Catholic faith. WCC’s mission endures solely because its faculty and students embrace the radical values of the Founders. Each year, prospective students are called upon to demonstrate their own devotion to truth, goodness, and beauty—and one exceptional student is honored with the Founders’ Scholarship. This year, the competition went spectacularly, and it will certainly be difficult to choose a winner from such an enthusiastic and competent pool of competitors!
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PEAK 2025!
Spots at our PEAK Summer Program are rapidly filling up, with only a couple spots left for the second session and a waitlist already started for ladies! Time is running out for you to join this epic summer adventure! If you’d like to spend two weeks of your summer reading the Great Books, rock climbing, horseback riding, learning to dance, rappelling, and backpacking, PEAK is for you. Sessions will run from June 1-15th and 16-30th.
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Counselor Travel!
Catherine Mershon, our Director of Admissions, will be travelling in Nebraska in early April. If you live in the area, please reach out to her! We always love meeting with prospective students from around the country.
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Campus Spotlight!
To give you a taste of life at Wyoming Catholic College, we will showcase various events on campus that highlight the rich culture of WCC’s community. A great place to start is the Freshman Dance, which took place last weekend! Every year, each class is tasked with hosting a school-wide dance, with a communal dinner and a theme of their choosing. This year’s freshmen chose a medieval theme, and students showed up in their best peasant, friar, or crusader attire. After feasting together, students danced the night away—celebrating together in the joy and spiritedness of our tight-knit community.
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