Hats off to the Class of 2021 at School of the Holy Child

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The afternoon of June 5 was a glorious day for speeches at Holy Child’s Graduation Ceremony. Sixty-eight young women “of conscience and action” were lauded and celebrated. 

Head of School Colleen Pettus praised the class for “daring greatly. In a year that has challenged our education system, our physical and mental health, and has called us to address social and racial injustices, you showed up, you were seen, and you were heard. You dared to step outside yourselves for the greater good — the good of our school, our greater community, and our world.” In conclusion, she said, “I have no doubt you will continue to do so, in even bigger and bolder ways, in your next chapter of learning and growing into the best version of yourselves.”  

The featured speaker was Dr. Andrea Hooper Robert, Director, Precision Medicine, Early Clinical Development and Experimental Sciences at Regeneron.  

A member of Holy Child’s class of 1991, she urged the graduates to “Continue what you have been doing this school year — embracing the unexpected, using challenges that may come at you for the greater good, and continuing helping one another to make it through.”  

 
Lindsay Ricciardi, Class President, described her peers as “artists, athletes, singers, dancers, musicians, engineers, and so much more. Most importantly, we now embody the portrait of a graduate. We are intellectual, courageous, spiritual, confident, and compassionate young women. We had a lot to learn walking into the lobby doors on our first day, but there was one thing we all understood, and that was that we were going to support each other through thick and thin. And we did just that.” 

The Colleges They Are Headed to: 

American University 

American University of Paris 

Auburn University 

Bucknell University 

College of the Holy Cross (2) 

College of William and Mary 

Cornell University (3) 

Elon University 

Fairfield University (2) 

Georgetown University (2) 

George Washington University 

Grove City College 

Harvard University 

Indiana University, Bloomington 

Loyola Marymount University 

Loyola University, Maryland 

Marist College 

Mount Holyoke College 

New York University 

Northeastern University 

Northwestern University (2) 

Purdue University 

Santa Clara University (3) 

Savannah College of Art and Design 

Skidmore College 

Spelman College 

Syracuse University 

Trinity College (CT) 

Tufts University (2) 

Tulane University 

University of Arizona 

University of California, Los Angeles 

University of Colorado, Boulder 

University of Connecticut (2) 

University of Miami 

University of Michigan (2) 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

University of Pittsburgh 

University of Richmond (3) 

University of Scranton 

University of Southern California 

University of Virginia 

University of Wisconsin, Madison (2) 

Vanderbilt University 

Vassar College 

Villanova University (6) 

Wake Forest University 

Warren Wilson College 

Washington University in St Louis