Graduate classes make for great dates. You learn about a person’s ability to follow through on group projects, their level of creativity in presentations, and their sense of humor in late night study groups. Plus, a little healthy GPA competition never hurt anybody. We—Molly McPherson Hollowell, ESIA MA ’13, and Frank Hollowell, ESIA MA ’12—met in […]
When Alexa Mahinka, GWSB MTA ’12, walked into the first day of her “Global Perspectives” class, she was just looking for a seat, not someone to spend the rest of her life with. But there in the back row, she found an open seat—and Mike Kiernan, GWSB MBA ’13 . Alexa sat next to Mike […]
“You would think that with us hanging out in speedos together 20 hours a week, a relationship wouldn’t take long to begin—but it did.” Kristen (Janeczek) Bocanegra, CCAS BA ’99, and Juan Bocanegra, CCAS BA ’00, SEAS, MS ’04, met on the GW pool deck in August of 1996—she was a sophomore and he was […]
GW’s Colonial Inauguration (CI) program is meant to bring new students into the GW family fold, but sometimes it brings together two Colonials in a different way. That was the case for Lauren O’Donoghue Whelan, CCAS BA ’09, and Cory Whelan, CCAS BA ’08, MA ’10, who met working as members of the 2007 Colonial […]
They were so close, and yet, so far away. In 1999, both Heather (Kaufman) Rasowsky, GWSPH BS ’06, and Avi Rasowsky, CCAS BA ’05—him, a New York native, and her, a Texas girl—travelled to Mexico City to represent the United States in the Pan American Maccabi Games. Avi was a member the U.S. baseball team, […]
It’s all about finding the perfect partner; that’s true in both ballroom dancing and love. And sometimes, as in the case of Elaine “Elly” Harrington, CCAS BA ’10, and Kumar Jeev, SEAS PhD ’14, ESIA CERT ’14, you find both in the same person. Elly and Kumar met as members of the GW Ballroom Dancing […]
Guns, Germs, and Steel…and Romance? Like the rise and fall of empires, some romances take longer than others. That was the case for Danny Hajjar, ESIA BA ’13, ESIA MA ’15, and Christina Ravelo, ESIA BA ’13. Danny and Christina first met during their freshman year at GW when they were in the same World […]
Love can blossom even in the heart of winter—but a little hot chocolate at an iconic GW date spot to warm up first never hurt. Carole Jacobson Rawson, CCAS BA ’78, and Doug Rawson, CCAS BA ’76, met 40 years ago this winter at a Saturday night party before the start of the spring semester […]
Having spent four years as good friends and fellow athletes, Danny Brooker, GWSB BBA ‘08 and McKenzie Parrack, ESIA BA ‘08 apparently needed to get off the GW campus to discover they had something more. Way off. It wasn’t until they were paired up on the same team during a post-graduation trip to Spain that […]
Two strangers sat (side-by-side, perhaps?) in Professor Denysenko’s comparative religion class during their freshman year at GW. But they didn’t actually meet until one was in law school and the other was a senior. As fate would have it, Brian Herman, CCAS BA ’10, JD ’13 and Hannah Ziegler, GWSPH BS ’11 were finally introduced […]
