BUA Graduates Largest Class in School History
On Monday, May 19, Boston University Academy graduated the Class of 2025 — the largest class in the school’s history, at 67 members. President Dr. Melissa Gilliam delivered the commencement keynote address to a packed house at BU’s Tsai Performance Center. The BUA Class of 2025 crossed the stage to receive their diplomas from Head of School Chris Kolovos and Associate Head of School Rosemary White. Rose Cairo ’25 and Yiannis Asikis ’25 delivered the student addresses; Egor Lazarevich ’25 and Lucia Jankowich recited the Classics orations in Latin and Greek, respectively.
In her remarks, Dr. Gilliam, drawing on the many hats she has worn in her personal and professional lives, advised the Class of 2025:
“There is so much I want to tell you. As a doctor, I want to tell you exercise, minimize screen use, spend time in nature, spend time with people. As a mom I want to tell you to get enough sleep, drink water, and that you are perfect.
All of these things are true. But as a university president, whose job it is to fully educate a next generation of collegians and graduate students, I want to talk about this moment in time.
You are graduating at a remarkable moment in human history. You are graduating at a moment when bedrock institutions, knowledge, and practices are being questioned and challenged. You are graduating at a moment pregnant with the promises and pitfalls of technology. These inflection points call on us to think about what really matters. What can we preserve and what can we do without? There is a tension between innovation and conservation. I think you all who have studied Greek, Latin, ancient civilizations, sciences, and the humanities—a classical education—are very well positioned to think about these questions.”