When Jameson Good graduates from college on May 8, he will join five generations of his family who have graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in the past 125 years.

Good’s great-great-great-aunt Lucinda Garbarino was the first member of his family to graduate from CU Boulder in 1901, along with his great-great-great uncle Martin E. Miles, who also graduated in 1901. Both became teachers at CU Boulder, and Garbarino was also one of the university’s first female professors.

“It’s a little crazy just to think about how long my family’s been in Boulder,” Good said.

For him, there was always only one place where he wanted to go to college, and that was CU Boulder. Good didn’t apply to any other schools.

“There really just wasn’t anything else I was thinking of, and I wanted to follow in the family footsteps,” he said.Lucinda Garbarino’s father, Louis Garbarino, emigrated from Italy with his three brothers and settled in Boulder in the early 1870s. The Garbarino brothers are believed to be the first Italians to come to Denver in the late 1850s. He and his wife had four children, including Lucinda Garbarino, whom he encouraged to go to school.

The Miles family still has Lucinda Garbarino’s yearbook from 1900, which has a note on the inside page designating that edition as the university’s first yearbook. The university was founded in 1876. The family estimates roughly 50 members of their family have graduated from CU Boulder in the last 125 years.

The Garbarino-Miles families were joined in 1901 when Lucinda Garbarino’s sister married Martin E. Miles’ brother.

The second generation connected to Good was marked by his great-grandfather, Martin B. Miles, who graduated from the CU Medical School in 1931, which was housed at the Boulder campus at the time. Martin B. Miles served in World War II and practiced medicine in Boulder.

Martin B. Miles had six children, including a daughter, Mary Miles, who would become Jameson Good’s grandmother, and a son, Marty Miles. Both attended CU Boulder.

Marty Miles, 91, is a proud CU Boulder graduate and still lives in Boulder. He said he knew Lucinda Garbarino, the family’s first CU graduate, well.

When Marty Miles attended CU Boulder, he said the university had about 7,000 students and Boulder didn’t have any stoplights. He grew up four blocks away from the Boulder campus.

“I just felt really close to the whole spirit of CU,” he said.

He loves CU, and when he went to the university, he said the campus and the people there felt like family. Marty Miles said he’s proud of Jameson Good and his family’s legacy.

“I see no reason it should ever end,” Miles said.

Barb Miles, Marty Miles’ daughter, said her dad “just absolutely loves CU” and loves when members of the family go there.

“My dad doesn’t want it to ever end,” she said, laughing, “He wants it to be generation after generation after generation of our family graduating from CU.”

Marty Miles’ sister, Mary Miles, became Mary Good when she married Robert Good, and the two are Jameson Good’s grandparents. They both obtained bachelor’s degrees from CU Boulder in the 1960s and Robert Good also obtained a law degree.

Mary Good and Robert Good had a son, Tim Good, who is Jameson Good’s father. Tim Good graduated from CU Boulder in 1986 with a business degree and now practices law in the Denver area.

“I just couldn’t be prouder that (Jameson) selected a school that I truly love and that he’s done everything we could expect him to do while he’s there,” Tim Good said. “He’s made us real proud.”

Jameson Good’s second cousin, Derek Miles, graduated from CU Boulder in 2015 and is also part of the fifth generation of CU graduates in the family. Tim Good said his son’s CU family legacy is even more direct because Jameson Good also represents his family’s 4th lineal, or direct, generation to graduate from CU.

For Jameson Good, CU Boulder was a good fit academically, and he knew he wanted to be in Boulder. He’s looking to pursue a career in sports equipment design after graduation. During his time at CU Boulder, Jameson Good found a core group of friends, joined a fraternity and enjoyed the competitive spirit of the football team in the past two years.

“The college aspect in general helped me grow as a person, be more accountable for myself, be more responsible and learn how to live on my own, do my own thing,” he said. “I’ve gotten the opportunity to really shape my future in the way I want it, which is a really cool thing, and CU gave me the opportunity to do that.”

Jameson Good said his family’s CU connections are a common place for him and his relatives to connect, even though everybody went there at different times. It’s a way to reminisce with each other during family gatherings and a cool way to tie everyone together.

“I’m proud to be a Buff and I’m sure they are, too,” he said.