the one hundred and ninety third commencement exercises of
friday, may 22, 2026
Yasmine N. Abunasra
Michael Adu-Gyamfi
Kaden DesLauriers Agnes
Jooyoung Ahn
Sean Ryan Atkins Jr.
Gavin Karl Baer
Adrianna Jaylynn Bailey-Stewart
Joseph Carl Banks
Liangchen Bao
Nile Ari Llewellyn Bean
Kayden Michael Bennett
Orrie Love Berman
Finnian Badnin Bjork
Hogan Anthony Bloomfield
Ryan Hamilton Bois
Santiago Bourgeois
Madison Paige Brodacki
Caitlin Judith Buron
Ava Allmon Butterfield
Elias Christopher Norman Carpol
Ava Goodwin Carroll
Raegan Prudence Carty
Nai Wai Allen Cheng
Minjune MJ Choi
Kathryn Kennedy Clark
Alana Marie Clarke
Seamus Lawrence Cleary
Amelia James Curtin
Ava Leigh Cwiertniewicz
Naos Dominic Dancanet
Sofia Alessandra De Simone
Annabel Matson deForest Keys
Ciara Alice Dellea
Charlotte Anne DeLong
Theo Edward Dengler
Kaitlyn Marie DeSiena
Sierra Parente DiMartino
Alanna Mary Dolan
Emma Elizabeth Dupere
Mackenzie Copeland Dutton
Elizabeth Adnareya Eaton
the class of 2026
Hadley Cooley Edwards
Zhuowu [Jackson] Fan
Mette Victoria Feldman
Edmund Mao Flanagan
Constantine Peter Georgiopoulos
Varvara Globenko
Hadley Baye Gribbell
XuanCheng Guo
Kira Layne Haroche
Seth Kekoa Healy
Robert Nicholas Holcombe
Brooke Winifred Hostetter
Boyuan Hu
Oliver Thomas Janson
MelienaMarie Johnson Hyre
Anna Kirstine Pizzuti Jolly
Alexander Alexandrovich Kachanovskiy
Sophie Ann Kaplan
Sadie Abigail Kessler
Quinn Patrick Kiernan
Herrie Kim
N’Goh Marie Jocyline Emmanuella Koffi
William Levi Kotchen
Sarah Marie Kriebel
Er-jene Lee
Zeyi [James] Li
Jiayun Liu
Jakub Lomička
William Michael Ludwig
Declan James Lynam
Jack Brian MacDonell
Lily Ryan Malone
Dylan Andrew Manuilow
Daniel Robert Martin
Markus Nazir Maxwell-Grimes
Mariana Elizabeth McCarthy
Ezra Andres Mendes
William Heath Napier III
Soren Isaac Nelson
Emersyn Melley Nutini
Oluwatamilore Osisiemese Olayinka
Luke Plato Pappas
Natalia Diana Peña Paradies
Neeva Hershal Patel
Caiden Owen Peña
Connor Robert Pikula
Sophia Elizabeth Romaniw
Mackenzie Jordan Rosenberg Toro
Lilia Jean Rosenkranz
William Dunn Ruffa
Daniel Ruha
Aidan Michael Ryder
Augustus Victor Shapiro
Emma Reese Siegel
Graham Thomas Simpson
Migyong Song
Alexander John Spence
Ayden Raymond St. Martin
Ethan Isaiah Stack
Danielle Rose Stanley
Fischer Drew Stevens
Alex Suárez Vargas
Parris Tahvin Sueksagan Moses
Ronan Byrnes Sullivan
Seamus Long Sullivan
Bryce Jarvis Summers
Mathieu Yves Nathaneal Tivil
Phoebe Rae Tucker
Sadie Lara Tulley
Parker Shane Valero
Stone Patrick Visconti
Zhinan Wang
Recardo Nicholas Warren
Alexander Burgess Waterhouse
Xintong [Katherine] Wen
Ava Rose Willcutts
Kate Elizabeth Willcutts
Ashlyn Elizabeth Wills
Rhys Antonio Wilson
Emily Jane Yates
Andy Zhang
Caelyn Alexandra Zwirko
order of events
processional of trustees, faculty, and the class of 2026 welcome
charles cahn iii | head of school
presentation of prizes & awards
Suzy Brodie Vogler P’11 | vice president, board of trustees
“america the beautiful” o beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! america! america! god shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!
commencement address
Seth Dechtman
alma mater
to fair suffield, your name so dear, we will raise in song and cheer.
through endless days we’ll sing your praise, so all the world can hear.
and when our days at school are over, in classroom and on field, in each one’s heart there’ll be a spark, for friendships made at old suffield.
presentation of the candidates
Kathleen McNary Pillsbury & Josh Hillman ’14
presentation of the diplomas
charles cahn iii | head of school senior class speaker
Sean Atkins jr. ’26
head of school remarks to the class of 2026 the bell ceremony
prizes & awards
class of 1874 mathematics prize
ralph f. hansen economics prize
kenneth i. lindfors history prize
collins religion & philosophy prize
senior science award
Computer Science Award
emmett kent english prize
edward manning gallup english prize
c.w. austin language prizes
Françoise L. Waskiewicz Award
jeanice h. seaverns art prize
jonathan brian steinberg kaufman ’09 head of school prize
allan h. fuller prize in Performing arts
hinsdale smith photography prize
bradford c. gooch music award
emmett kent public speaking prize
charles g. davis oratory prize
suffield academy class of 1999 unsung hero award for athletics
robinson environmental award
class of 1947 extra-class achievement prize
gordon g. glover prize
george a. butler cup for athletics & sportsmanship
courtney robinson ’88 spirit cup
george g. pervear unsung student award
h. meade alcorn, jr. award for scholarship & athletics prize
william bradford bates scholarship & activities prize
appleton h. seaverns award
faculty award for citizenship & service to suffield
henry thevenin ’10 award
the parker regan ’12 prize
solon e. goldstein class of 1916 leadership award
the bintou f. ojomo ’07 memorial award the cum laude society the torch society prize
faculty awards
donald p. richter award
elisha benjamin andrews award
Pervear-Kinne Coaching Prize
