Wartburg College Alumni & Parent Relations

Maribel Lopez '10 also addressed her class at the Senior Dinner on March 30, 2010. The dinner was held in the Wartburg Ballrooms on campus. View her speech below.

"We have all been asked to share our Wartburg experience...I feel like we could all relate to [these stories] in one way or another...I met this girl on my first day. She ended up being one of the wolves in my wolf pack."
"...Some people say your senior year is the most memorable, but I have to disagree. My sophomore year was the best year. I upgraded to C Lot which was sweet. I'd leave my car outside the Res...I provided Wartburg Security with enough funds to probably pay the whole staff overtime...[My roommates] and I made a parking ticket curtain-really spirited-Be Orange!"
Maribel discussed one trip to the Communication Arts building: "And then we thought, why not be efficient, take some racer scooters, and just go through the skywalks. You're not supposed to do that. It says so on p. 33 of the Wartburg College Handbook...Well we were racing, and I was winning...I wiped out in the cubbies by the Mensa...and this Wartburg maintenance guy was there. He called Wartburg Security on us...The report said 'moving at a high velocity through the skywalks.' We were threatened to get kicked out of the institution if we didn't write an apology letter to maintenance."
"I traveled abroad to Spain my junior year...that was one of the best things I got out of my Wartburg College Career...I hope that those of you who took advantage of travel opportunities--May terms, service trips, Wartburg West, tours-whatever-that you guys cherished it as much as I did. I grew. I grew up."