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A COMPUTER
SET US UP
Joseph Alford (ChE’66)
and Marti (Boyd) Alford (HHS’68)
We met at a computer match dance
held on November 15, 1964, in the
Purdue Memorial Union. Due to its
novelty—students filled out long questionnaires in advance, which were transferred to punch cards that were then
sorted by the computer for compatibility—CBS covered the event. We are one
of two couples who were matched that
evening and ended up getting married.
—JOSEPH ALFORD
HYPOTHETICAL
ROMANCE
Terry Hamilton (CE’81, MS CE’83)
and Cora (Widener) Hamilton (T’83)
I was a junior, and Cora was a freshman. We both lived at
Fowler Courts in the fall of 1979. Our two units, 1272 and
1206, combined for an impromptu chicken fight behind
the courts, in back of the Delta Upsilon house. Girls rode
piggyback on the guys. Cora and I are smaller people,
and we had a low combined center of gravity that gave
us an advantage. We ended up the unofficial champions.
When Cora was on the way down from her perch, she
got kissed. She claims I kissed her, but she may have
been the kisser rather than the kissee. At any rate, that’s
how our relationship started. I popped the question in fall
1982 during a picnic at Happy Hollow Park. Cora claims
I posed the question as a hypothetical, so she responded
with a hypothetical yes. She was in anguish during our
one-year engagement over whether her hypothetical yes
had landed her in trouble. She was undergoing a
recommitment to her faith in Christ, and she was not
seeing the same changes in her presumptive life partner.
Thirty-eight years and four grandchildren later, we are still
working things out. —TERRY HAMILTON
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