Senior Clap-out During Senior Circle

The entire Seven Hills community gathered in the Field House on May 17 to cheer off the Class of 2024! With signs, air-horns, cowbells, and our beloved mascot Sting, Stingers of all ages rallied for the senior class as they ran around the circle and thanked their parents and teachers for an excellent final year. Good luck, seniors!

SNAAP BANQUET HONORS STUDENTS

The Seven Hills Network of African American Parents (SNAAP) hosted its 2024 Recognition Banquet on June 1. The banquet celebrates the students moving from fifth to sixth grade, eighth to ninth, and this year’s Upper School graduates. After a warm welcome from SNAAP committee member Ken Best, graduating senior and Youth Poet Laureate of Cincinnati, Gabrielle Walker gave a poetry reading. The SNAAP committee also honored Head of School Chris Garten with a watercolor painting of the recently named Garten Middle School to recognize his continuous efforts to enrich Seven Hills during his tenure. Garten will retire on June 30.

Rising senior Erin Jackson and rising junior Malcolm Faison presented the rising students, and SNAAP committee member Yoti Walker and rising sophomore Zora Simpson presented the Class of 2024. Congratulations to our rising students and to the Class of 2024 graduates Lina Asfaw, Ronan Blair, Max Brown, Nate Campos, Stephen Elder, Kaeden Iyoha, Lidya Tesfaye, Gabrielle Walker, and Nathan Walker.

Rising junior Maxwell Faison introduced the event’s keynote speaker, Rev. Peter Matthews ’91. “Don’t be scared to ask the big questions, and don’t determine your success by your parents’ or the world’s definition of it,” Matthews told the graduating seniors.