2024 Grauer 9th Grade Matriculation Ceremony

Congratulations to our 9th Grade students on their Matriculation into High School! The Matriculation Ceremony marks students' official commencement to The Grauer High School community. Matriculation is an esteemed, traditional ceremony. In the formal English traditions at the universities in Oxford and Cambridge, the term is used for the ceremony at which new students are entered into the register of the university, at which point they become members of the university. The Grauer School matriculation is less formal, but meaningful to who we are as a community. The students receive sweatshirts with their graduation year not just to symbolize their enhanced connectivity to the school's community, but to mark our confidence in their journey to adulthood.

Grauer 9th Grade students were matriculated in a special ceremony on October 22. The ceremony began with a procession of the 9th Grade students into Meyer Hall, led by Middle School Dean Erin Langen through a threshold of percussion created by Clayton Payne, Raina N. '26, and Esme M. '27 on the drums, symbolic of all the "noise" in life that might distract them from their true purpose. Senior Teacher Clayton Payne hosted the event. 9th Grade student musicians Madeleine H. '28 and Charlotte R. '28 sang the song "Time of Your Life", accompanied by Ty M. '26 and Music Teacher Isaac Langen. Head of School Emeritus Stuart Grauer gave a speech about rites of passage and the adventures that the matriculates will have over the next 4 years. The event continued with the reading of "Roster of Matriculates" by Principal Alicia Tembi. As each name was read, students cast a piece of dissolving rice paper into a bowl of water, on which was a note about something they were either going to cast away or steer towards in this next phase of life. Then, they shook hands with Head of School Dana Abplanalp-Diggs and received their special "Grauer Class of 2028" sweatshirt as their matriculation gift.