Roger Louis Chaufournier and Nancy Nicole Chaufournier

“I met my wife on her first day at GW on the floor of the Smith Center gymnasium. It was recruitment day for clubs and fraternities. I had the responsibility to recruit little sisters for the Phi Sigma Epsilon fraternity. She was going to be on the basketball team and walked in with her freshman roommate. It was love at first sight. I was successful recruiting her into the fraternity where she became the fraternity’s sweetheart. She had stolen my heart and I knew I was in trouble — I was scared to start dating her. I avoided dating her for a year. That summer, I backpacked through Europe with a fraternity brother, and every day sent her a postcard. She still has the postcards. When I returned, I finally mustered the courage to ask her out one evening early that fall. We walked down to the Lincoln Memorial and sat on the steps looking down toward the Capitol. I knew then, I would be spending the rest of my life with her. We got engaged and married the year after her graduation. I ended up working at GW Hospital and as fate would have it, our four boys all were born at GW Hospital. My daughter was one of the last babies born at the former Columbia Hospital for Women. Our last son went on to be a legacy and graduated from the GW School of Engineering and Applied Science. We have been married for forty years and I still share the same excitement when I see her every day as that first day I met her in the Smith Center.” – Roger