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Did You Find Love at UBC?

In December 07′s Grad Gazette, we invited alumni to enter their UBC love stories into a competition. They stood to win lunch at Sage Bistro on campus, and tickets to UBC Theatre’s production of Big Love. Judy Chapman heard about the competition through her son, Ryan Chapman, also a UBC grad (BASc’98, MSc’03). He thought his mother should enter the competition because the story of how his parents met has been told many times around the kitchen table…. And for those of you who have never sat at the Chapman’s kitchen table, here it is again.

Winners: Judy Chapman (Pastro), BEd’71 and Ian Chapman, BASc’73

Runners Up:

Judy Chapman (Pastro), BEd’71 and Ian Chapman, BASc’73

It was January 29, 1970. The rain was pouring down on a chilly Vancouver evening. My roommate and I were contemplating the free Friday night before us. We opened the Ubyssey to consult the Dances section. There was a dance at Totem Park – but, being in third year and having had our Totem time the two years prior, we were way too sophisticated for that.

Susan Braun-Clarke (Clarke), BA’80, and Ludwig Braun, MSc’80

He left by the front entrance after noonday Mass at St. Mark’s, she by the back. For she had come there from working at home for a prof over the [...]

Douglas Dang BSc’86, BASc’91 and Peggy Dang (Koberinski) BSc’87, BSc(Pharm)’90

We met at UBC in 1985 when we were both in Biology. It all got started in the Biology lab where we had to look into microscopes and draw these [...]

Devon Fornelli, BMus’01, MMus, and Karin Di Bella- DMA’02 (Doctor of Musical Arts)

My wife and I got married this past July (2006), but we met each other in a piano techniques class at the UBC school of music. Leading up to now, [...]

Roger Fry BSC(Agr)’51 and Lois Fry

It was the winter of 1949/50. I was a gauche Aggi undergrad, with few if any social graces, from Central BC; she a beautiful blond primary teacher from the Kerrisdale [...]

Grace Jones, BMus’83, BEd’90, MEd’06 and “Joe”

Although this story is true and probably unusual, my husband and I are no longer together so it may not qualify for your contest. I was enrolled in the UBC [...]

Allison Kozdron BSc’00 and Nils Johnson BSc’00

I found love at UBC! He was a friend of my brother’s, and we started dating at the end of our 1st year, and have been happily married for almost [...]

Larissa McLean BEd’05 and Russ

Well, I didn’t exactly meet my significant other at UBC but I associate the love and triumph of our relationship with Vancouver and UBC. Where do I begin? I received [...]

Victor Nahmias BArch’ 77

I did not actually find love at UBC, but through UBC. The simple story is that I came to the School of Architecture in 1973 and in December 1974 joined [...]

Matt Oberhofer BA’56 and Florence Oberhofer (Tuff) BHE’53

It started with a Calgary-to-Vancouver train ride in December 1951. Now the world has four children and 12 grandchildren with our name, of which four are Prof. Engineers (Petroleum, Chemical, [...]

Philip Thomas MSc

In the late 60′s, I was a graduate student in the Anthropology and Sociology Department and was the departmental representative on the Social Sciences Reading Room Committee. In 1969, David [...]

Roma Tingle BSC(Agr)’68 and Jim Tingle BSC(Agr)’66, MSc’68

My husband and I met at UBC while we were in the faculty of Agriculture, but we did not connect until the last year of my BSA degree and his [...]

Jeff Vavasour MSc’00 and Irene Vavasour (Lees) BSc’93, PHd’98

Irene and I were both undergrads in Physics. Though we initially became acquainted during a summer work term in the Atlantic – she at UNB and I at MUN – [...]

Mariana Veiga BSc’04 and Mauricio

Mauricio first spotted me when I was in the line up for the upstairs courtyard at the SUB that is transformed into the “pit” during the first pit night. Once [...]

Vanessa Wong BHK’02 and Al Ezaki BHK’02

I found love at UBC. It was the summer of 2001. I was taking a few summer classes for my Human Kinetics degree when I found out there was someone [...]

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