Geneva School of Boerne held commencement exercises May 24 for its 15th graduating class, as 42 seniors received their diplomas during the ceremony at University Methodist Church in San Antonio.
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. Those 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.
Commencement began with a prelude of classical music. The processional, “At Long Last,” was played on bagpipes as the faculty and seniors 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.
Anderson 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,” Latin for “Not unto us, O Lord, but to Your name give glory” from Psalm 115:1.
Donnowitz offered the closing prayer, and the faculty choir sang “The Lord Bless You and Keep You” before the ceremony closed with a bagpipe recessional.
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