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Alumni Awards
2025 Head of School’s Award for Distinguished Service to the School
Though they graduated four decades apart, Roxi Vadia Morgenstern ’75 and Cheyenne Range ’14 display a similar passion for excellence and desire to serve their alma mater. For their dedication and commitment to RE, the pair were named co-recipients of the Head of School’s Award for Distinguished Service to the School for 2025. Morgenstern received the award from Head of School Rachel Rodriguez during a senior award ceremony in April 2025, and Range was honored at a Grades 9-11 award ceremony in May.
“Roxi and Cheyenne have each helped shape the Ransom Everglades of today with selfless commitment and thoughtful engagement,” Rodriguez said. “They have worked tirelessly to strengthen our alumni community while also mentoring and leading current students. It is an honor to recognize them both.”
Range, a member of the RE Alumni Association and a founding member of the Ransom Everglades Black Alumni (reBa), reflected on lessons learned from her great-grandmother, Athalie Range, the first Black woman elected to the Miami City Commission, when she received her award in May. Her great-grandmother “didn’t wait for permission to lead; she saw what her community needed; [and] she rose to the occasion with grace and purpose,” Range told assembled students in the Lewis Family Auditorium.
Currently the Deputy Chief of Staff to Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson in the U.S. House of Representatives, Range described RE as “the place that helped shape who I am.”
“This award is not just about achievement, it’s about growth – made possible by a strong foundation,” Range said. “Ransom Everglades gave me the freedom to pursue, to raise my hand, speak up, and try, even when I wasn’t sure I would succeed … Ransom Everglades gave me the courage to pursue life boldly, and to grow.”
Recognized in April, Vadia Morgenstern was described by Rodriguez as “a true ambassador for Ransom Everglades” who models The RE Way in all she does. A founding member of the Everglades Steering Committee and in her fourth year on the RE alumni board, Vadia Morgenstern brings “energy, enthusiasm and a palpable love for the school,” Rodriguez said, that has “helped re-engage Everglades alumnae, reconnecting them to each other while also helping to create a new and powerful bond with current students.”
“I received a lot over my time at RE – my education, lifelong friends, a passion for learning and being of service to my community,” Vadia Morgenstern told students. “Because of that, I feel honored and committed to staying involved and engaged in the Ransom Everglades community through whatever means I can.”
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.
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