Grandparents Day

If you look at the Colombian flag that hangs in the Refectory, you will see the name German Lopez on the plate - this was the first flag added to the Refectory.  On Grandparents Day, I got a chance to chat with German, who was on campus visiting his grandson Luis Jaramillo '15.  Lopez, known as "Lopey" at the time, was Warden of the class of '49, the first class to graduate after the school re-opened.

German Lopez '49 & his grandson, Luis Jaramillo '15

As Warden, German had frequent meetings in Don Pierpont's house, and German remembers Pierpont very fondly.  Other memories in include making coffee and roasting marshmallows in the working fireplace in his room, being "an item" with Frank Leavitt's older sister Carol (the Leavitt family rented space in the Quad in those days), and meetings of an elite group - was it the Order of Old Farms? - in a room upstairs in the Water Tower.  He used to babysit for the Kincaid family and once borrowed their car, fell asleep, and drove it into an apple tree!  German says the accident caused no big fuss, which I am inclined to believe given the number of crashing-the-borrowed-faculty-car stories that seem to emanate from the Pierpont years! Apparently German Lopez set the precedent.