Back row (left to right): Parker Sperfslage, Nicholas Raine, Addison Phillips, and Kerrigan Lyons. Front row (left to right): Katie Hilton, Kylie Buchholz , Lexi Cahoy, and Shelby Channel
WAVERLY, IOWA (November 18, 2025) — Shelby Channel, of Davenport, Iowa, was inducted into the Iota Chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education at Wartburg College on November 12.
Kappa Delta Pi was founded by William Bagley, Truman Kelly, and Thomas Edgar Musselman in 1911 at the University of Illinois to foster excellence in education and promote fellowship among those dedicated to teaching. The founders chose the name from the Greek words knowledge, duty, and power.
Albert Einstein, George Washington Carver, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Margaret Mead are just a few of the 1.2 million initiated members KDP members who have made outstanding contributions to the development of professional education.
The mission of Kappa Delta Pi is to sustain an honored community of diverse educators by promoting excellence and advancing scholarship, leadership, and service.
Wartburg College is a four-year liberal-arts college internationally recognized for community engagement.
A college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Wartburg is dedicated to challenging and nurturing students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning. The college is characterized by vigorous academic expectations and community engagement within an environment of strong personal support.
