On Friday, June 11, Rocky Hill Country Day School celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2021 with an in-person ceremony, sitting in family groups on the lawn of the historic, waterfront campus. The event was live streamed for extended family,
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On Friday, June 11, Rocky Hill Country Day School celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2021 with an in-person ceremony, sitting in family groups on the lawn of the historic, waterfront campus. The event was live streamed for extended family, friends, and faculty and a jumbo screen projected the event for optimal viewing. The ceremony included live speeches from Head of School Diane Rich, Don McCaughey from the Board of Trustees, and Senior Commencement Speaker, Jasper Summers of Providence. Class President Sara Laurent of North Kingstown presented the Class Gift. The class valedictorian was Lily Kutcher of Narragansett.
Each student came on stage to receive their diploma and hear adulations written about them by their advisor. The celebrations were concluded with one of the longest-standing traditions of Commencement, the Rose Ceremony, where students present roses to specific parents and faculty/staff who they wish to honor. In a final salute to the Class of 2021, Head of Upper School, Brady Wheatley, led the students on a procession through the community.
As Diane Rich noted in her opening remarks, “we have transitioned from surviving to thriving. Last spring, we were uncertain and anxious. And now, look where we are. Specifically, look at where you graduates are.”
Rocky Hill Country Day School Lifer Award: Sinead Burnett, Taylor Cote, Dylan Lehouiller, Matthew Sherry; Dumas Family World Language Award: Sarah Cunningham; Henry and Peggy Sharpe English Award: Lily Kutcher; Gregor/Coes Award in Mathematics: Jiayi “Bessie” Yang; Dr. Richard R. MacMahon Science Award: Grace Starosciak; Roberta Wintersteen Knight '61 History and Social Sciences Award: Sinead Burnett; Community Service Award: Jiayi “Bessie” Yang; Flynn Award for Sportsmanship: BJ Jenkins and Jordan Lanowy; Howland Music Award: Gregory Tatevian; Lillian Boynton Hale Art: Jasper Summers; The Willaim W. Mauran Bowl, Sarah Cunningham; and the Richard S. Barker Sr. ’54 Community Service Award, Joan Osawa.
Stefania Andreev, Saunderstown
Sinead Burnett, East Greenwich
Lucia Cato, East Greenwich
Yiran Chen, Shenzhen, China
Taylor Cote, Warwick
Sarah Cunningham, Warwick
George Gabro, Barrington
Dante Garcia, Kingston
Alexey Greim, East Greenwich
Ava Grenier-Riley, Cranston
David Gutierrez, Central Falls
Benjamin Jenkins, Middletown
Troy Johnson, Middletown
Lily Kutcher, Narragansett
Jordan Lanowy, Jamestown
Sara Laurent, North Kingstown
Dylan Lehouiller, Saunderstown
Yuxiao Lin, North Providence
Tamira Lopes, Providence
Yuhan Lu, Richmond
Caelan Lynch, East Greenwich
Jeremiah Malone, East Greenwich
Mason Parker, Portsmouth
Marlon Monterosso, Providence
Chase Schulte, Warwick
Jasper Summers, Providence
Matthew Sherry, Wakefield
Irca Sian, Pawtucket
Grace Starosciak, Coventry
Jack Sweeney, Kingston
Daxton Tassone, West Kingston
Gregory Tatevian, Warwick
Abigail Tillinghast, Warwick
Bridget Vanderveer, Middletown
Ming Wang, Beijing, China
Connor Warner, Westerly
Alejandro Wu, East Greenwich
Zi Yi Wu, North Providence
Jiayi Yang, East Greenwich
Huijun Yu, Sichuan, China
Zhou Zheng, East Greenwich
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