Elon University recently renamed Global Commons to Sato Commons after Toshio Sato — the first international student to graduate from Elon in 1920. However, Sato wasn’t the only international student attending Elon at the time.
There was also 35-year-old Modesto Lopez from Spain.
Elon Archivist and Assistant Librarian Randall Bowman said he is not sure when Modesto Lopez arrived to Elon’s campus, but he was here at the same time as Sato. Though Lopez was a Spaniard, he moved to Elon from Cuba…