Hopkins Rallies Around Grilled Cheese

The tradition started twelve years ago when Jack Lubin ’12 was a player on the Junior School Baseball team coached by Assistant Head of School John Roberts.

Every year since, Hopkins students listen to Roberts recount the story in the Assembly on the morning of Grilled Cheese Day. Roberts explains how every day during Junior School baseball practice - the period before lunch - Lubin would ask Roberts if there was grilled cheese for lunch that day. In 2007, Roberts informally named Grilled Cheese Day after Lubin to commemorate his energy and enthusiasm for grilled cheese. Now, twelve years and thousands of grilled cheeses later, the day earned the title Jack Lubin Grilled Cheese Day Extravaganza.

With hundreds of kids lining up outside of the doors to the Dining Hall, students shared their tricks for getting the best grilled cheeses. Once inside the servery, Ian Dailis ’20 explained that the “standards of civilization cease and Darwinism takes over because everyone just wants to get as many of the curly fries and grilled cheeses as possible . ” Ann suggested her method of “getting a squad together and arriving to the dining hall early. One person fills a plate of curly fries while another gets the grilled cheeses. Then the table shares the fries and grilled cheeses.” Alessandro Amoedo ’20 said he “typically goes to the middle line, which is often shorter because the line is capped at the end by the sandwich bar.”