Lasting Memories — Commencement 2025

By Lehigh Marketing & Communications June 04, 2025
Both wearing brown graduation caps and gowns, a tall male student and an alumna from the class of 1975 both hold a large bell to ring it with a crowd in the stands behind them.
Ethan Riester ’25 and Karen Stuckey ’75 ’10P

The Class of 2025’s journey kicked off at Rally 2021, where Lehigh’s first co-ed class — 1975, represented by Karen Stuckey ’75 ’10P — adopted the incoming class. On that drizzly day, Stuckey presented Ethan Riester ’25 with both the Class of 2025 flag and a silver cup given to her class 50 years earlier by the Class of 1925.

At Commencement 2025, Stuckey and Riester reconnected, this time with the threat of rain overcome by sunshine. Together, they rang the bell to signal the transition of the graduates to the next phase of their journey, including joining the proud network of Lehigh alumni.

Recall the memories from your own commencement day by reliving the lasting moments of Commencement 2025.

Welcome to the alumni community, Class of 2025!

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Both wearing brown graduation caps and gowns, a tall male student and an alumna from the class of 1975 pose for a photo with a large ceremonial bell.
A performer in a mountain hawk costume and brown graduation gown hypes up an audience of families in the Goodman Stadium stands.
Five people in military fatigues hold flags in front of a professor in purple regalia.
Professors and administration in various colors of regalia walk down the field in 2 rows.
Rows of graduates in brown ropes stand at their seats at Goodman Stadium in front of a stage with a Lehigh University banner hanging above it.
Amid a sea of brown caps, one student stands with one finger raised in the air as a Lehigh sign hangs in the bleachers behind him.
The camera focuses on 3 students wearing brown caps and gowns in the assembly of graduates during their ceremony.
Returning from the stage, 2 female graduates wearing brown caps and gowns embrace side-by-side and celebrate walking between the aisle of fellow graduates.
The camera focuses on 3 doctoral graduates wearing brown caps and gowns in the assembly of graduates during their ceremony.
Returning from the stage, a male graduate wearing a brown cap and gown points with his hand in the sky to crowd as he walks among fellow graduates.
A male graduate wearing a brown cap and gown points flexes his two arms with enthusiasm as he walks back to his seat.
A group of female graduates squat and huddle for a photo, making enthusiastic faces and motions for the camera while holding their personal items and purses.
A group of graduates in brown caps and gowns pose for a photo on the field of Goodman Stadium, with some squatting in front of the group.
Four graduates in brown caps and gowns pose for a photo with big smiles, one wearing a lei.
A wide shot shows a full crowd of graduates with caps tossed in the air with clouds visible in the blue sky.