Anniversary Date: July 3, 1982

Love Story: Marci and I met during her first week on campus in 1975. We started dating in October of that same year. We have been together, with the exception of one week (where I lost my mind) during the spring semester of 1976, for more than 41 years.Read more

Anniversary: April 18, 2009

Love Story: We met on Kara's  first day at Midland. We started dating about 3 weeks later and have been together ever since. We married at Sinai Lutheran  Church. It has been over 11 years since we first met and started dating and we are happier than ever. We now have a darling family....Read more

Anniversary Date: June 6, 2015

Love Story: A mutual friend and teammate of Desireé introduced Desireé and Kyle. Kyle quickly asked Desireé on a date soon after meeting and the two began dating a couple weeks after their first date. After about a year of dating, Kyle proposed to Desireé; she said YES! The two planned their wedding for the summer after Kyle graduated. Desireé and Kyle will be celebrating their second wedding anniversary this coming June.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: 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: August 13, 2016

Love Story: We met at Midland when I was a freshman on the soccer team and A.J. was a senior and a student assistant for the men's basketball team at Midland. We met each other through other friends and both having a love for sports. We hung out and got to know each other during our time in college together. After A.J. graduated, we still kept in touch quite often, but we did not start becoming anything more than friends until I was a junior.  We knew after a couple months of dating...Read more

Anniversary Date: June 25, 2016

Love Story: Pat and I met in 2010 when I transferred to Midland from Dana. It wasn't until he graduated that we started dating. He came back to town for homecoming in 2011, we saw each other and the rest is history! We were engaged in March 2015 and married June 2016....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: June 10, 2006

Love Story: Austin and I had known each other before either of us attended Midland. One of the girls from his high school had moved to my hometown her junior year and was in my class. Of course we wanted to meet all of her friends and Austin was one of them. During my freshman year I remember him coming to visit on a basketball recruit today and thinking that would be cool if he ended up coming to Midland.

With him playing basketball and myself playing volleyball we spent most of our time in the gym...Read more

Anniversary Date: June 5, 2010

Love Story: We started out having several mutual friends throughout our freshman year.  During our sophomore year we were Organic Chem lab partners.  We were both biology majors, so we had a lot of classes together and became good friends.  Our junior year I finally broke up with my boyfriend.  Eddie saw an opportunity to ask me out one night at F and O's.  We went on a few dates, but I eventually broke up with him because I had just got out of a long term relationship. After...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 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: August 24, 1991

Love Story: We met during our sophomore year at Midland, when we shared some classes and books. Our first date was attending the Homecoming Dance together in October 1988 and the rest is history. We married one year after graduation at Salem Lutheran Church in Dakota City, NE. We lived in Omaha until 1999, when we moved to Eric's hometown of Gretna. Eric is a Physical Therapist and Lona is a science teacher. We have 3 children and the oldest (Lance) is currently a junior at Midland. That makes him the...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: June 3, 1959

Love Story: Rev. John Russell and Colleen (Bonderson) Russell met September 1959 during the first week of their senior year at Midland. Love blossomed immediately and within six weeks of dating they were already talking about a wedding. They pledged their life and love to each other in marriage on June 3, 1959, at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Emerson, Nebraska, just a week following their 1959 Midland graduation. Inseparable through life, after 56+ years of marriage they died within five days of each in...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: January 21, 1967

Love Story: We started dating when we were sophomores at Omaha Central High School, so we were already steadies when we came to Midland.  We went through "pinning" and "engagement" ceremonies at Phi Omega and Kappa Phi and we were married at our semester break of our senior year.  Our last semester we rented a basement apartment in a home not far from campus....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

Anniversary: June 18, 2011

Love Story: He played baseball, I played softball and we both were taking a criminal justice class together. He was a senior and I was a sophomore and our teacher divided us into two sides of the room and I picked his side. We got to talking more in class and our assignment was to debrief court cases (which I had never done) so I asked him for help and the rest is history! We started hanging out more and more and now we are married with two beautiful daughters!...Read more

Anniversary Date: April 27, 1996

Love Story: Eric and Kim became friends during Kim’s first year at Midland. They had known each other through working at the Fremont Tribune, but did not become friends until they had a journalism class together. After being friends for a few years, they began dating and have been together ever since. They will be celebrating their 21st anniversary in April. They have two sons, and their oldest son will be attending Midland in the fall!...Read more

Anniversary Date: October 13, 2018

Love Story: We were both on the Midland track team when we met in September 2012 at our first practice of the year. He was a mid distance runner and I was a pole vaulter and we started dating on January 23, 2013. After dating for almost 4 1/2 years, we both graduated on May 15, 2017; I was graduating with a BSN and he was graduating with a MBA. After I received my diploma he met me on stage and asked me to marry him in front of everyone! I of course said yes and we got married on October 13, 2018 and...Read more

Anniversary Date: November 5, 2016

Love Story: We met in fall of 2010 through mutual friends. After three years of being friends, we began dating in May of 2013. Andrew proposed in December of 2015 and we tied the knot on November 5, 2016. We now live in Seward, NE. Jessica works as a Child and Family Services Specialist for DHHS and Andrew is in his second year as an Electrician Apprentice.Read more

Anniversary Date: June 25, 2016

Love Story: Preston and I met at Midland University in 2011. At first we were just acquaintances for a few months. One night we ended up going to the same movie at the Olson Student Center (I think it was King Kong). After the movie, Preston and his friend went downstairs and so did my friend and I. We ended up hanging out until the time change at 3 am! After this we hung out with friends for a few weeks. Eventually we became an official couple in April 2012. Ever since then we have been together. We got...Read more