The school recently held a celebration for our fifth grade students.  The ceremony entailed having each student don the jacket that is part of the Logic School uniform and receive a pin on the jacket to commemorate their progression from Grammar School to Logic School.  The pin, given by Grammar School Head Jessica Gombert, includes an image of three pillars, representing the three schools through which Geneva students advance – Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric.  The jacket and pin signify the completion of the first pillar, a Grammar School education, and the start of the second pillar, a Logic School education. 

As students progress from Logic School to Rhetoric School, they are placed into one of the four Houses found in our Rhetoric School.  During the ceremony held late last month, the fifty-four current eighth graders as well as new students joining us in ninth grade next fall were called forward one by one to receive their placement – “Chaucer”, “Lewis”, “Milton” or “Sayers”.  This annual ceremony serves as a rite of passage as eighth grade students celebrate the completion of the second pillar, a Logic School education, and the start of the third pillar, a Rhetoric School education.

Next Saturday during Commencement, we will celebrate the completion of the third pillar, a Rhetoric School education.  The ceremony at First Baptist Church in Boerne will begin at 11:00 a.m. and end by 12:30 p.m.  Rather than receiving a jacket and pin or a House placement, the twenty-two seniors will receive a diploma and the right to call themselves graduates of the Geneva School of Boerne.  The ceremony is called Commencement as it signifies the start of something new in the lives of these students.  Please join us next Saturday as we celebrate with our seniors the conclusion of their Geneva School education and the start of new challenges and adventures.

Brad Ryden