The Rye Country Day School Class of 2025 was recognized during the School’s 156th Graduation Exercises on Thursday, June 5, 2025. The ceremony in the Scott A. Nelson Athletic Center honored 113 graduating seniors (see the matriculation list below) and featured remarks from Student Body President Emily Cheigh ’25, Senior Class President Luke Stronski ’25, Head of School Randall Dunn, and Upper School Assistant Principal Jenny Heath.
“I wish you an absence of fear and an abundance of curiosity,” said Rye Country Day School Head of School Randall Dunn. “Delight in learning and exploring. One of the gifts of life is that we don’t have all the answers all the time. Continue to feel joy in the pursuit of knowledge.”
The graduation address was delivered by Assistant Head of School for Academics, Institutional Research and Data Dr. Meredith deChabert. This academic year caps off 20 years at RCDS for Dr. deChabert, who is the incoming head at the Gordon School in Rhode Island. Chris Hughes, who is the outgoing head of Garrison Forest School in Maryland, will succeed Dr. deChabert as Rye Country Day’s next assistant head of school starting this July.
The Class of 2025 gift to Rye Country Day School was a bell, which was rung for the first time as the graduates tossed their graduation caps into the air, marking the end of their student chapter and the start of their Wildcat alumni days. The ringing of this bell will become a new celebratory tradition at RCDS graduation ceremonies to come.
Rye Country Day School 2025 Matriculation List:
Amherst College (2)
Barnard College (3)
Brown University
Bucknell University
Butler University
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Colby College
Colgate University (7)
Colorado College
Columbia University
Cornell University (9)
Dartmouth College (2)
Duke University
Emory University (3)
Fordham University
Georgetown University (3)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Lehigh University
Loyola University Maryland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGill University
New York University (3)
Northwestern University (5)
Oxford College of Emory University
Parsons School of Design
Princeton University (2)
Providence College
Purdue University
Richmond University (2)
Rochester Institute of Technology (2)
Sacred Heart University (2)
Southern Methodist University (2)
Stanford University (3)
Swarthmore College
Tufts University (2)
Tulane University
University at Albany
University College London
University of California, Berkeley
University of Chicago (3)
University of Edinburgh
University of Miami (2)
University of Michigan (3)
University of Notre Dame
University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania (4)
University of Rhode Island
University of Southern California
University of St. Andrews
University of Texas at Austin
University of Vermont (2)
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
US Naval Academy
Vanderbilt University (3)
Villanova University
Wake Forest University (6)
Washington University in St. Louis (4)
Wesleyan University
Williams College
