8 ForOregonState.org/Stater L E t t E R S COVER: ZOHAR LAZAR; INVITE: COURTESY OF SHARA HOWARD SHARING THE LOVE Though a few readers felt that campus dating was not an appropriate topic for the magazine of a great research university, most found no conflict between life-changing learning and life-changing love. Many wrote in to share their own stories.An engaged couple asked for an extra copy of the spring issue so they could frame it, and another sent the magazine an invitation to their wedding. We were also excited when our publisher received a kind note from Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman,’62,the Beaver who was the inspiration for Gidget, the iconic, in-love-withlove surfer girl of book and movie fame. ↓ Newlyweds Shara Howard, ’17, and Taylor Burton, ’21, sent us an invite to their summer wedding with a note saying they met at OSU: “We loved the Oregon Stater love stories edition!” The story on romance in the current Oregon Stater was inspired. It contained so many great moments. It is also an excellent cultural history of the university. —STEPHEN A. FORRESTER I enjoyed the recent edition of the Stater magazine, with its focus on alumni who met their future spouses through OSU connections. Alumna Zelma Reed Long,’65,well known wine maker, introduced me to Tom McCoy. He and Zelma attended the same high school, and I was a good friend of hers at OSU. Since he went to college at Harvard, it was unlikely we’d ever meet. I’m grateful for the OSU connection that led to a marriage in 1967. Thanks for publishing a magazine I read from cover to cover. —NANCY AUSTIN MCCOY, ’65 I read with interest “OSU, a Love Story” and was inspired to share our story with you. Oct. 12, 1962. Columbus Day. I was living at the Theta Chi fraternity house. It was a Friday afternoon. I was having my very first date with this wonderful person I had met in analytical chemistry class. She and I spent nine hours together in lab each week. We were going to have dinner at the fraternity house and then go to the Sophomore Cotillion and hear the Four Preps. The wind started blowing late in the afternoon and got stronger and stronger. I stood on the front lawn of the fraternity house and watched a chimney topple over on a house across the street. All the electricity went out. The Sophomore Cotillion was canceled, but because we had a gas stove in the house, our amazing cook was able to put together a meal. We all were dressed up and had dinner by candlelight. Then, instead of going out, we had a quiet evening dancing to music from a transistor radio in the basement of the fraternity house. The next day, we walked all over campus and were amazed at the devastation, particularly on the
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