The Cathedral Prep ring ceremony of 2023 was held in the H. David Bowes Auditorium on Nov. 13. The tradition started at Villa and was carried over to Prep after the consolidation.

Campus minister Mrs. Grenci explained that the ring ceremony in a general sense is “a way to celebrate juniors becoming upperclassmen.”

The ring ceremony celebrates the junior class moving forward. For as long as the ring ceremony has been celebrated, the class officers have always picked the theme as well as the flowers to go along with the theme. This year the flowers were carnations. Year after year the tradition of the ring ceremony has stayed the same.

“There is something special about having traditions and knowing what to look forward to,” Mrs. Grenci said. The junior class officers provide a slide show of the junior class through their high school years every ring ceremony.

The ring ceremony here at Cathedral Prep is a special celebration of the junior class and is something very exciting for the juniors to look forward to.

Kylie Bruno, a junior at Cathedral Prep, said, “I felt that the ring ceremony was an exceptional opportunity as well as a great experience to help the juniors become upperclassmen.”

Kylie explained how genuinely grateful she was to have been able to experience the ceremony and all that it held.

“During the ceremony while sitting in the auditorium I felt a satisfaction within while watching my peers get their rings,” Kylie said. “The students that sat around me, I’ve known for the last three years. The opportunity to watch my classmates grow and move forward is truly a blessing”.

Kylie received a class ring during the junior ring ceremony, and she explained that the ceremony reminded her of her sister’s ring ceremony a few years before. Becoming an upperclassman is an achievement in every student’s life, supplying the students with hope to keep moving forward and to remind the students of how far they have come.