Anniversary Date: December 30, 1983

Love Story: Our love story began on New Year’s Eve 1975. It was Christmas break of my freshman year at Midland. Having no plans for New Year’s Eve, I decided to go to the Kappa Phi Party with my brothers, who were Kappa Phis. Never in a million years did I imagine that on that very night, I would meet my knight in shining armor, but lo and behold, there he was. In the hustle and bustle of the party, I lost my contact lens. Instantly a tall, blonde, handsome sophomore came to my rescue and asked if he could help. Before I...Read more

 Anniversary Date: December 28, 2013

Love Story: Roberto and I met our freshman year at Midland and became fast friends. He and his baseball buddies and me and my girlfriends all hung out all the time. We each dated different people during our time at Midland, but the summer before our senior year, we both stayed in Fremont to work and hung out more one-on-one. We lived in the Apartment dorms senior year - he on the first floor and me on the third so we saw each other a lot. We started dating on March 31, 2008. We dated across country until 2013...Read more

Anniversary Date: June 8, 2013

Love Story: We met at Bowling Night and then had a few interactions over the next few months. Eventually, that turned into a date which eventually turned into a proposal in Lund Hall a few years later. Many years and memories later, we’ll hit 10 years of marriage in June.Read more

Anniversary Date: June 8, 2019 

Love Story: Caleb and I met during our freshman year of college at Midland. We had mutual friends and got to know each other through them. We started dating in February 2011. At the time, Caleb was on the wrestling team, and I was on the track team. In 2012 Caleb switched and joined the track team as well, and we were able to compete together throughout the years. Caleb and I dated and continued our education/work aspirations until 2017, when we got engaged. We continued to follow our path together, moving to...Read more

Anniversary Date: February 18, 1973

Love Story: At the end of his freshman year in 1969, Bill became an officer of the International Relations Club. That summer he helped to address letters to the incoming freshmen. Among the letters he addressed was one to Daria Phillips of Oklahoma City. He was intrigued by the unusual name and the out-of-state address, since most of the students were from Nebraska and Iowa. When school started that fall, Bill scanned all the nametags of the freshman girls looking for the one with the exotic first name. He found her in...Read more

Anniversary Date: July 16, 2011

Love Story: The love story.... sit back and enjoy the ride..... SOOOOOOO.... it all started on Warrior Welcome Days on a hot summery day in 2007.... I initially met Evan's roommate who so kindly invited me down to the green for a slip in slide. There was a whopping 4 people there and one of them so happened to be...... you guessed it.... Evan Hoisington. We exchanged some words had a nice introduction. Then quickly went our separate ways. Fast forward 2 months, here we are at the Midland homecoming dance....Read more

Anniversary Date: April 30, 2016

Love Story: Nick and I met at the free Midland ice skate night at the Sidner Ice Arena my freshman year. Nick and I actually attended the same high school, but we never connected there. Nick is one year older than I am and was actually working at the ice arena at the time. I went with a couple girl friends of mine and one of them actually thought he was cute so that is why we went to talk to him. It was pretty obvious my girlfriend and Nick had nothing in common, but he and I struck up a conversation and...Read more

Anniversary Date: June 22, 2013

Love Story: We met in 2010 at midland and got married in 2013. We now have a 7-year-old daughter named Greeleigh and a 4-year-old son named Benson.Read more

Anniversary Date: June 20, 2009

Love Story: Travis was a sophomore and I was a freshman. He tells me he noticed me the first day of moving the freshmen into the dorms. He consistently stopped by my room in Beegle Hall and a few months later we started dating. We've been together since October of 2003 and are celebrating 10 years of marriage this year.Read more

Anniversary Date: April 29, 2017

Love Story: Dominic and Morgan met each other Dominic's senior year at Midland University in 2013 through a mutual friend's get-together, later finding out that they had a class together with each other. They spent a lot of time together with their friends and each other just getting to know each other while together at college. After Dominic graduated, they officially started dating.

A lot of time was spent together over the next few years while Morgan was finishing her degrees and Dominic was...Read more

Anniversary Date: May 26, 1979

Love Story: David and I met November 1971. As I was going to my Psychology 101 class in Swanson Hall, David approached me and asked whether I would be interested in having a cup of coffee. So that was the beginning of our romantic relationship. David graduated from Midland with BA in History in May 1972. He returned to his hometown Boston, MA; and I finished my education at Midland in German and Secondary Education. I taught school for a total of four years at Mullen and Scotia Public Schools in Nebraska. We...Read more

Anniversary Date: July 26, 2008

Love Story: Megan and Daniel met in the fall of 2005 at MLC in the class "Art and Music Methods." This was the last class for Daniel to achieve his endorsement for Art Education and was one of the last method classes Megan had to complete for her Early Childhood Education endorsement. After they were paired together on the opening class to sing the class a song "Galaxy Rap", Megan and Daniel soon developed an intense rivalry to better each others projects each class and be the first one to leave class....Read more

Anniversary Date: November 29, 1974

Love Story: Our first date was on a Friday the 13th in November of our freshman year. Kathy invited me to an inter-sorority dance in the dining hall. We had a good time, so it's hard to explain why it took me almost two years before I asked her for a second date. It just did. Our second date was also a Friday the 13th, when I asked Kathy to be my Homecoming date. I knew from that time on that I could see myself marrying her and growing old together. Our only class together was Interterm '74, when we...Read more

Anniversary Date: December 28, 2002

Love Story: Chris and I met in the summer of 2001. Blind date. We found out on this first date that we attended Midland around the same time. We reminisced about some of our classes and instructors, having fond memories. One class, however, stuck out in our memories - "Sex, Marriage and the Family." Chris remembers a very outspoken brunette sharing strong opinions. I remember sharing a lot during class discussions. I talk a lot. Chris said he was amused by this woman, secretly cheering when others with...Read more

Anniversary Date: January 4, 1969

Love Story: I had attended Midland from Sept. 1962 through May of 1964. I then put in a couple of years in the Navy and returned to Midland in January of 1967 and met Sherry House in the fall of 1967. Our first date was Homecoming that fall. We continued to date and we became engaged in North Platte, NE on July 25, 1968, Sherry’s birthday. We were married January 4, 1969 in North Platte during our semester break and during one of the snowiest winters ever. We didn’t think many of our attendants and...Read more

Anniversary Date: November 25, 1995

Love Story: I was a non-traditional student attending Midland after serving four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, and through some friends in the same boat we were, we met at John C. Fremont Days. However, I was dating someone else and she was to be introduced to someone else. Long story short, our situations didn't work out and we met later that fall. As I was driving through the Midland parking lot one day, I saw her at her car and I stopped to chat. The rest is history.Read more

Anniversary Date: July 28, 2012

Love Story: Mike and I met in the fall of our sophomore year at Midland. We were in microbiology class together and sat next to each other in lab (Thanks Dr. Johnson). We didn't start dating until December of that year. We had many mutual friends that were also dating so we all spent countless evenings together, mostly at the basketball house and Pi Epsilon functions! After graduation, Mike moved to Lincoln for dental school and I moved to Omaha to start my career as a nurse. We married in July of 2012. We...Read more

Anniversary Date: May 27, 1978

Love Story: My best friend and Kappa Phi brother John Prauner (yes, that John Prauner) introduced us in the fall of Shelly's freshman year. It took me awhile to get the courage to ask her out. We dated until spring and then I gave her my fraternity pin. Several months later, we got engaged and married in May of '78 after Shelly's junior year. She finished school and student taught her senior year while we lived in a tiny one bedroom apartment in southeast Fremont. Shelly taught school for two years and then...Read more

Anniversary Date: September 13, 2014

Love Story: Mason and I were actually high school sweethearts. We started our journey at the end of our freshman year of high school on May 18, 2007. After high school we stayed together, but attended different colleges; he went to Midland for football and I went to Northwestern College for volleyball. After visiting Mason often and making lots of friends at Midland, I transferred there my sophomore year. The rest of our college days were spent together and with our friends. We got engaged the summer...Read more

Anniversary Date: July 8, 1967

Love Story: Butch and I started dating my junior year at Midland while I was a student worker in the Athletic Department and where Butch spent the majority of his time working for Max Kitzelman. We were married July 8, 1967, and will be celebrating our 50th anniversary this summer. Butch received his draft notice 3 days before our wedding so spent a year in Vietnam before he graduated. We have many fond memories of Midland--really enjoyed our time there!Read more

Anniversary Date: July 29, 1995

Love Story: Kim and Larry met at Midland in 1994 and married at Sinai Lutheran Church in 1995.Read more

Anniversary Date: October 3, 2015

Love Story: We met through mutual friends in January 2011, having multiple movie nights in men's hall, and officially started dating in March 2011. Sam graduated in May 2013 and moved out to Scottsbluff to work as a nurse. We dated long distance till Michael graduated in May 2014 and joined Sam in Scottsbluff that September. Michael proposed In December, we moved to Gibbon in July and got married October 1, 2015. We currently are still in Gibbon - Sam working labor/delivery at Kearney Regional and...Read more

Anniversary Date: June 8, 2013

Love Story: We met each other through our best friends in college who also ended up tying the knot (Mike Sanders and Stacey Sanders (Richard). My wife and Stacey were in the Pi Ep sorority together and Mike and I played basketball together. We both graduated in 2009 from Midland University (Midland Lutheran College at that time) and got married on June 8, 2013. We most recently had our first child, Ava Sue Tuma, this past August.Read more

Anniversary Date: October 14, 2006

Love Story: We "met" when Nikki was a freshman in 1998. Mark had already graduated but was a trainer and Nikki played basketball. We didn't actually know each other though since Nikki didn't spend much time in the training room that year. We didn't officially meet until years later, 2004 at a MLC homecoming. A mutual friend introduced us and we starting talking and hung out together that afternoon but then went our separate ways. A month later we ran into each other again, this time exchanging phone...Read more