Anniversary Date: August 29, 1959

Love Story: We met at Midland College as freshmen in 1955 because both of us wanted to go to our closest Lutheran college. In our sophomore year, my roommate told me that I should date that Joanna Carson because she is cute and she likes you. So I did and we went together to a fraternity/sorority ball in the fall of 1956 and that was it. In those days courtship was clearly delineated so we "went steady" in our sophomore year, were "pinned" in our junior year, engaged in our senior year, and married the summer after graduation. I had won a Fulbright Scholarship for study in Germany so one week after our marriage we were on an ocean liner filled with Fulbright students headed for Bremerhaven. We've been married happily for 57+ years and have four children and eight grandchildren. We thank Midland for providing the occasion and place for our meeting, but most of all we thank God for the blessings he has showered upon us.