Seniors Awarded Diplomas at Graduation
Sunday, June 7 marked the culmination of high school for seniors at Hawken School.
Eighty-nine students received their diplomas during the commencement ceremony held at the Gates Mills campus; in addition, two diplomas were awarded posthumously to the families of Alexander Doody and Joshua Weil.
Two students, Swetha Kareti and Samuel Schneider, were chosen by the senior class to address their classmates during the ceremony, and Matthew Thompson gave the valedictory address.
Spanish teacher and Hawken Jazz Band Director Chad Komocki was also chosen by students to address the graduating class.
Musical interludes included Song of the Qin Mulberry Field by Zhou Yan Jia, played on the Chinese zither by Alison Jin, and It’s Time, by Imagine Dragons, performed by Hawken’s close harmony group, Rockapella.
Click here to listen to the speeches and musical selections, and click here to view a program from the event.
Spanish teacher and Hawken Jazz Band Director Chad Komocki was also chosen by students to address the graduating class.
Musical interludes included Song of the Qin Mulberry Field by Zhou Yan Jia, played on the Chinese zither by Alison Jin, and It’s Time, by Imagine Dragons, performed by Hawken’s close harmony group, Rockapella.
Click here to listen to the speeches and musical selections, and click here to view a program from the event.
Graduates will be heading to 67 different colleges and universities including Stanford, Bowdoin, Yale, Boston College, Ohio State, Carnegie Mellon, Elon, and Brown. Forty percent of the graduating class were scholarship recipients, three of which are Division I athletic scholarships.
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Early Childhood, Lower, and Middle Schools, 5000 Clubside Rd, Lyndhurst, OH 44124
Birchwood School of Hawken, 4400 West 140th Street, Cleveland, OH 44135
Upper School, PO Box 8002 (12465 County Line Rd), Gates Mills, OH 44040
Mastery School of Hawken, 11025 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
Gries Center, 10823 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
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