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Well I played on the basketball team and one of my teammates Randy Ayers.
We met at Centerville High School, Centerville, Ohio. She went to Hamilton High School which
is not far, and then I went to Talawanda High School.
Freshman year when I got here on to campus I lived in Reid Hall.
I was the head resident of Sims Hall and Kris was the house chairman or the senior counselor
in Reid Hall. And her brother played soccer on the team
that I played on and he was a freshman my senior year, and I noticed that his sister
was an attractive lady. Mentioned that there was someone that he wanted
me to meet. They had a great head RA who was Matt Macechko, and
he happened to introduce me to his little brother.
Official date may have been the Delta Ball and that was back in 1979, and we've been
a couple since then. (Ever since then.) Applebee's in Hamilton, it's big time. Applebee's
in Hamilton, we had dinner there and then we went and watched Titanic because it was
out, so it was amazing. I mean obviously I impressed her for that
first date. He lived when we were in undergraduate, he
lived down in North Quad and I lived in Central, you know, at Hamilton, so we would meet here,
so we were familiar with kissing at Upham. The tradition wasn't really hot then was it.
Well, I think it's because, we did kiss under the arch.
Finals week. Finals week of senior year. Yeah, so we came down to the arch and we figured
we'd get here a little early, so we got here about five till, and there was already a couple
here waiting to kiss under the arch. One of the campus experiences is you've got
to find the hottest good looking boy and get him under the arch and kiss him.
We were going to a wedding, a Miami Merger wedding in Akron, and I stopped and got the
ring ahead of time and picked her up in Freemont, and we headed to Akron, got off at exit 10
and I asked her to reach in and get the money out of the glove compartment so I could pay
the guy and there was the ring. And so it feels good to be a part of it definitely.
All the experiences, you know, you share together when you're much younger, now get to re-share
them again. I'll remember this one.