SAN ANTONIO — Geneva School of Boerne hosted its commencement exercises May 23 at University Methodist Church.
The Geneva School of Boerne seniors are honored May 23 at commencement exercises at University Methodist Church in San Antonio.
This year’s class of 39 seniors marked the private religious school’s 16th graduating class.
Fifteen students in the Class of 2026 are members of the Geneva Guild, which recognizes pupils who completed 13 years at the school starting with kindergarten.
They include Gray Bruner, Abigail Bussey, Trinity Cloud, Harper Deimund, Maggie Deimund, Austin Hodo, Robert Jons, Ben Lee, Alex Malouf, Amelia Morgan, Ella Grace Owens, Logan Reyes, Jax Riddle, Mary Simpson and Emrey Taylor.
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 senior class joined the ceremony.
Rhetoric School Headmaster Matt Donnowitz gave the welcome and Tami Ownes, Geneva parent and volleyball program director, offered the opening prayer.
Valedictorian Elle Chalmers and co-salutatorians Bussey and Sopris Oglesby spoke to peers during their speeches.
Geneva parent and board member Nathan Pickle read Ephesians 3:16-20, and Eric Cook, president and CEO of the Society for Classical Learning, delivered the commencement speech.
He encouraged the graduates to stay true to Christ as the world encourages them to claim their independence.
He charged them to embrace a new kind of dependence — a dependence not upon their parents or others, but upon Jesus who, he said, will provide in ways that no one else can.
After the graduates were recognized, the attendees sang the alma mater and the hymn “Non Nobis,” a short version of the Latin phrase 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 commencement exercises ended with a bagpipe recessional.
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