Alumni Sweethearts 2023

“Dylan and I first initially met at GSEHD counseling’s welcome happy hour at Tonic as well as attending classes together. After that happy hour, I returned home and my roommate asked me if there was anyone I was interested in. I said, surprisingly (the counseling profession is vastly mostly female), there was one person that I was attracted to, Dylan, but I didn’t think anything would happen. Initially, we exchanged only formalities. However, we would frequently find ourselves sitting next to one another in classes. Secretly there was interest in one another for both of us. After that initial Tonic happy hour, I would secretly listen in to his conversations and laugh. To my friends and my amusement, Dylan would also sit in front of me during our Human Development Class. This meant that every time I would laugh, speak or say something funny, Dylan would turn around to look at me. To be funny, my friends and I would count how many times Dylan would turn around. That night, Dylan turned around ten times. After a night at The Madhatter and consistently dragging friends out to bars (we were too afraid to ask one another out) we went on our first official date at Tonic. We have been together ever since, on so many adventures, and soon will be happily married for four years.” –Carissa

“Interestingly, my wife and I saw each other only a couple of times at GW. My best friend from NY went to junior high with my wife. She told her I went to GW and we connected in Kogan Plaza but only saw each other 1 or 2 times after. She lived off campus and I lived on. Fast forward 9 years later, she had just returned from living in Botswana and we met in NY at an after work event. We went out a couple of days later and the rest as they say is history!” –Jonathan

“It was 1984 and my first weekend as a freshman in Thurston Hall; I lived on the 8th floor. I was coming up the stairs to the 8th floor on Labor Day weekend after a long night out. When I got to the 8th floor, I opened the door and Sue was sitting on the floor outside her room in the hallway on the phone -- remember those days? I sat down and we started to talk. I think it was love at first sight! We went out the next night (I recall it was Hamburger Hamlet in Georgetown -- very romantic!) and we dated through the end of our college years. We continued dating while I was in law school at GW. We took turns traveling back and forth between DC and Philadelphia on weekends. We were engaged while I was completing law school and we were married in October 1991. We cherish our GW memories and the relationships we built with the many GW alumni we call friends. We cherish how we met so much we named the space in Thurston where we met.” –Ian 

“We met in the Marvin Center (University Student Center) at a college democrat meeting. I was in charge of the Speakers Committee and gave a speech while Roni was in the audience. It was September 1978. Our ideologies brought us together. After the meeting was over, we talked for hours in the lounge. I don’t think I walked her back to her apartment. Oops. She was a junior and I was a sophomore. We dated until we graduated except for a short time when we realized the separation didn’t work. We married on 10/23/82. When texting became popular, I started texting 10:23 every AM and PM when it’s 10:23 AM or 10:23 PM (♥️10:23♥️). Currently, we coach high school varsity tennis and are the only husband and wife coaches in the area where we live. Roni is an interior designer and has been voted Best Interior Designer on the Main Line for the last three years. Fashion sense? I still love her small feet and the shoes she buys to cover them. I’m reminded of when Ringo Starr was asked how he and Barbara Bach have stayed together for so long and his answer was, ‘I love her.’  That would be my answer about Roni.” –Jeff

“We met in 1989 during the first meeting of the newly formed Theta Tau engineering fraternity. We dated through college, spending many hours together at Tompkins Hall and Gelman Library. Karl proposed on my graduation day after asking my dad for my hand. I took a job in Annapolis, MD doing systems and software engineering while planning our wedding. We were married a year later, one week after his graduation, and have been married for 30 years. Karl won two awards – the student that had the most impact in SEAS and the best senior project –  and he used the money from the awards to pay for our honeymoon in Disney World. We have two wonderful daughters, both CS majors. A few years ago we shared the distinct honor of being inducted into the GWU SEAS Hall of Fame.” –Vicki

“Campbell and I were in the same medical school class, but got to know each other during our second year. We met through mutual friends and our first night had a snowball fight out in Arlington. I knew he liked me when he tried to teach me how to drive a stick shift in his beloved Toyota Corolla. We started studying for our boards at the end of second year, but we didn't start dating until our third year when we decided to get a group of people together and he was the only one that showed up. The waitress wrote on our bill at the end of the night, "you guys make a cute couple." We were engaged by our fourth year and married right before internship. We both still remember when Dean Scott told us at orientation to look around our class of 150 students because some of us may meet our future spouses in the next 4 years. He was right!” –Nazzi