Groton School welcomes alumni back to the Circle for 2025 Reunion Weekend

More than 400 Groton alumni and their families returned to the Circle May 16–18 for 2025 Reunion Weekend.

This year’s Reunion Weekend celebrated alumni from form years ending in five and zero, with the oldest representing the Form of 1950 and the youngest the Form of 2020. Attendants came from thirty-two U.S. states and five countries: Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

An annual highlight of the weekend is the presentation of the school’s highest alumni honors. This year, the Cui Servire Est Regnare Award was given to David Cheever ’05 and the Distinguished Grotonian award was given to Nicole Piasecki ’80. Full coverage of the award ceremony, including the honorees’ remarks, will appear in the fall Quarterly. 

Other weekend activities included tours, receptions, dinners, presentations from Board of Trustees President Benjamin Pyne ’77, P’12, ’15 and the Admissions Office, open classrooms, musical performances, a special joint Black Latino Alliance and Cultural Alliance event on “The Journey from Inclusion to Belonging.” Alumni soccer players enjoyed a pick-up game on the Field of Inclusion, while runners took on the annual Triangle Run challenge. 

In anticipation of the celebration of fifty years of coeducation at Groton School this fall, alumni were invited to stop by the Hundred House Reading Room to search through yearbooks and identify favorite stories and photos to be included in that yearlong celebration. A live taping of the new student podcast “Girls of Groton,” hosted by Devon Gura ’25 and Lola Gutierrez-Huang ’25, was held in conjunction with this event.

One special treat this year was a book signing by longtime woodworking teacher and archivist Doug Brown ’57, who autographed copies of a new biography on him, The Man in the Blue-Striped Shirt, and caught up with a host of alumni from throughout his fifty-one-year tenure on the Circle. 

Following chapel services on Sunday, alumni, faculty, and staff gathered at the Sunset Farm Barn to close out the weekend by honoring retiring faculty members Monika Andersson, Peter Fry, and David Prockop.