Blake Lopez is a Harvard University Class of 2024 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Classics and Classical Languages Literature and Linguistics. He volunteered his time as the Co-president of the Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society and Vice President of the Harvard Classical Club. He earned multiple scholarships, grants and fellowships while in school and still managed to find time to exercise on the Harvard Climbing Team. He delivered the Latin Salutatory: “Distantia Propinquior” (“A Nearer Distance”) first in Latin, then in English.

Before his time in the Yard, many people in the Region remember Lopez as a ’20 Mount Carmel graduate and Crown Point summer Latin participant. He returned to CPHS Sept. 6 to speak to Latin students in the classes of Latin Club Coaches Jeremy Walker and Mrs. Angela Tarakiewicz.

“It was really interesting to hear how in-depth he got into his studies and how he carried his studies of the ancient world from high school and college further into his life and career goals. I was having some doubts about how the study of Latin, which is definitely a dead language, would carry into the world past this experience, and he made it seem like it did have the opportunity to do so,” Lincoln Vickers (11) said.