Oldenburg Academy Students Win Essay Contest

Congratulations to Josie Wolfe and Lilly Schebler.

Josie Wolfe and Lilly Schebler. Photo provided.

(Oldenburg, Ind.) - Two Oldenburg Academy students have a way with words. 

Freshman Josie Wolfe and sophomore Lilly Schebler were recently named winners in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Serra Club 2022 John D. Kelley Vocations Essay Contest. 

Their essays will be published this summer in the Criterion Newspaper.

The prompt for the 2022 essay contest was "How might time spent before the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament give direction to one's life?" 

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