Commencement 2025

On the bright, sunny morning of Friday, June 6, 2025, 132 members of the Class of 2025 graduated from Hopkins School at a beautiful ceremony on the Hill, surrounded by family, friends, faculty, and staff.

 

Head of School Matt Glendinning began the festivities, followed by an Invocation by Dr. Asha C. Shipman, the Director of Hindu Life and Hindu Chaplain for Yale University. Senior Class President James Liu gave the Salutatory address, in which he reflected on how Hopkins has provided his class the means to be academically, socially, and emotionally fearless. Liu also encouraged them to embrace the future and its unexpected twists and turns. Senior Henry Foushee delivered the Valedictory Address, in which he urged his classmates to commit themselves to the creation of a better, peaceful world for all, graduate with abundant pride, and commence with a new beginning.

While addressing the Class of 2025, Glendinning shared what he had learned from this class, calling out many individuals who inspired him. He also spoke of the many moments he shared with the graduating class over the course of his tenure. 

 

Gwen Evans ’84, President of the Hopkins Committee of Trustees, accompanied by Head Adviser Angelina Massoia and Glendinning, delivered diplomas to each graduating senior. Special performances by the Hopkins Choir and Orchestra throughout the ceremony heightened the emotion of the event.

 

After all the diplomas were conferred, Alexander Skula ’25 handed over the Hopkins flag to incoming Student Council President Ripley Chance ’26. The Class of 2025 left the tent as graduates, where they set off celebratory confetti poppers before they were greeted by the faculty in a receiving line.

Two days ahead of the full school ceremony, the Hopkins Black Student Union held a Black Commencement for the students of color in the graduating class. The special ceremony included remarks from alum Darius Bittle-Dockery ’06, faculty members Dante Brito, Jr., and Hughes Fitzgerald, and an induction into the Hopkins Black Alumni Network by Michelle C. Mays ’00. Read more about this meaningful ceremony.

American University (2) 

Auburn University 

Barnard College 

Bates College 

Bentley University 

Boston College (2) 

Boston University (5) 

Bowdoin College    

Brown University (2) 

Bucknell University 

California Institute of Technology 

Case Western Reserve University 

Claremont McKenna College 

Colby College (4) 

Colgate University (2) 

Columbia University (2) 

Connecticut College (3)

Cornell University (2) 

Dartmouth College (2) 

Dickinson College 

Eckerd College 

Fordham University 

Franklin & Marshall College 

Georgetown University (3) 

Georgia Institute of Technology 

Haverford College 

Howard University (2) 

Loyola University Maryland 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (5) 

McGill University (2)

New York University (3) 

Northeastern University 

Northwestern University (2)

Occidental College 

Princeton University (2)

Purdue University  

Smith College 

Spelman College 

St. Olaf College 

Swarthmore College 

Syracuse University 

The New School 

The University of Texas at Austin 

Tulane University  

United States Military Academy at West Point 

United States Naval Academy 

University of Amsterdam 

University of Chicago (6) 

University of Colorado Boulder (3)

University of Connecticut (8) 

University of Miami 

University of Michigan 

University of Notre Dame 

University of Pennsylvania (4) 

University of Southern California 

University of St Andrews (3) 

University of Virginia  

Vanderbilt University (3) 

Vassar College (2)

Wake Forest University 

Washington University in St. Louis 

Wesleyan University (2) 

Yale University (19)

Numbers listed after colleges indicate that multiple Hopkins students will be attending those institutions next year.