Geneva School of Boerne hosted its Commencement Exercises on Saturday, May 24, at University Methodist Church in San Antonio. This year’s class of 42 seniors is Geneva’s 15th graduating class.
The Class of 2025 had 18 students who are members of the Geneva Guild which recognizes those who began at Geneva in kindergarten and completed all 13 years at the school. The 2025 Geneva Guild members are Victoria Allen, Caleb Baggs, Wyatt Bruss, Britton Christal, Francesca Dacy, Madeline Egbert, Lillian Flora, Kathleen Friesenhahn, Jacob Goodman, Jack Walker Harden, Wimberley Hochart, Morgan Howard, Colton Lutz, Kyra Petty, Jake Roberson, Samuel Siller and Rachel Troyer.
The Commencement Exercises began with a prelude of classical music. The processional, “At Long Last,” was played on bagpipes as the faculty and members of the Class of 2025 entered. Rhetoric School Headmaster Matt Donnowitz gave the welcome and Carrie Friesenhahn, Geneva parent and former Board Member, offered the opening prayer. Valedictorian Victoria Allen and Salutatorian Will Crews each addressed the graduates personally in their speeches before the assembly sang the hymn “Great is Thy Faithfulness.”
Geneva parent and former Board Member Tonya Christal read Ephesians 3:14-21, and Trinity Classical Head of School Neil Anderson delivered the Commencement Speech. He encouraged the graduates that as they launch into this next chapter of life where the world tells them to claim their independence, that they would instead embrace a new kind of dependence—a dependence not upon their parents or others but upon Jesus who will be all things to each of them that no one else they encounter can provide.
After the graduates were conferred, the community sang the Alma Mater and the hymn “Non Nobis,” which is Latin for “Not unto us, O Lord, but to Your name give glory” from Psalm 115:1. Rhetoric School Headmaster Matt Donnowitz offered the closing prayer, and the Faculty Choir sang “The Lord Bless You and Keep You” before the Commencement Exercises closed with a bagpipe recessional.
Geneva’s Class of 2025 was honored for the completion of the three pillars of a Geneva education—Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric—at the Commencement Exercises on Saturday, May 24, at University Methodist Church in San Antonio.
The Class of 2025 Guild members are pictured here with their Grammar School Headmaster Mrs. Jessica Gombert.
Geneva’s Class of 2025 Valedictorian delivers her address at Geneva’s Commencement on Saturday, May 24, at University Methodist Church in San Antonio.
Geneva’s Class of 2025 Salutatorian Will Crews delivers his speech at Geneva’s Commencement on Saturday, May 24, at University Methodist Church in San Antonio.