On the weekend of his 40th Trinity Reunion, David Booth Beers \u201977 rode his bicycle the four miles from his West Hartford home to the Friday evening clambake. Recently divorced and feeling \u201cnot very happy,\u201d he sat down to chat with Marian Kuhn \u201977, with whom he had remained in touch and saw every five years at Reunion. \u201cShe was very kind,\u201d David remembers. \u201cI wound up blurting out to her, \u2018I had a wicked crush on you back then!\u2019 and she told me she had had no idea! I understood. We lived in adjacent dorms our first year and were sort of friendly. But I was young for my age, and Marian had been educated in Europe and was not interested in freshman boys.\u201d<\/p>\nWedding day photo of David Booth Beers \u201977 and Marian Kuhn \u201977; Photo by Alexandra Beers \u201988<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
However, \u201c24 hours of anxiety later\u201d\u2014the next evening after the Reunion dinner\u2014when David declared that he didn\u2019t want to wait another five years to ask her out for coffee, Marian, who was widowed, countered with an invitation to a hike near her home in Salisbury, Connecticut.<\/p>\n
From then on, they saw each other every weekend. Marian\u2019s sisters urged her on. Five weeks after Reunion, they were engaged. They married the following spring. \u201cAt our age,\u201d Marian says, \u201cwhen you know, you know. You don\u2019t have a lot of time to waste.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Trinity\u2019s Alumni Relations Office, Marian and David are just one couple of more than 1,000 Trinity pairs. Just a few years before their time at Trinity, the College was a very different place for women as the all-male undergraduate student body was on the verge of a major shift. Margot Clement Clark \u201971, then a student at Vassar College, decided to become one of 16 female exchange students for the second semester of her sophomore year. \u201cIn many ways,\u201d Margot says, \u201cthe College as an institution was not adequately prepared for women.\u201d Still, her own experience was so positive and she found the students so welcoming that she decided to transfer to Trinity when the College opened to women in fall 1969.<\/p>\nWedding day photo of Margot Clement Clark \u201971 and Jeff Clark \u201971<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Part of that positive experience was meeting Jeff Clark \u201971. \u201cWe remember exactly where we were when we first met,\u201d Jeff says. \u201cWe were on the Long Walk, with my roommate talking to Margot\u2019s friend and me in the background.\u201d Eventually, they began hanging out as friends, becoming a couple later that spring after Jeff asked Margot to his fraternity\u2019s spring party. \u201cI showed up at Margot\u2019s door sporting a double-breasted navy-blue blazer I had bought at a thrift shop, with a silver medal around my neck that I had won in a crew competition that morning,\u201d Jeff says. \u201cAnd that,\u201d Margot says, \u201cis when I thought, \u2018Well! OK!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
They corresponded over the summer and by the following fall acknowledged their strong connection. After graduation and then two years of commuting, with Jeff in graduate school at Cornell University and Margot in graduate school at Simmons College, Margot said to Jeff, \u201cWe\u2019re happy. Our parents are happy. Nothing is standing in our way.\u201d Jeff adds, \u201cEverything fit into place for us to get married.\u201d In June 1973, they did.<\/p>\n
While Margot and Jeff connected through mutual friends\u2014a common story on a college campus\u2014Marnie Richards Glazier \u201996, M\u201902 and John Glazier IDP\u201902 found themselves working together at Timothy\u2019s, a Zion Street restaurant that was, for decades, a Trinity institution. Marnie, who came to Trinity as junior, began working at Timothy\u2019s during her senior year after she returned from the College\u2019s summer program in Rome and moved into an apartment above the restaurant. John joined Timothy\u2019s staff a few months later, shortly before beginning Trinity\u2019s IDP program, and moved into an apartment across the hall. (\u201cI told him I thought it was haunted,\u201d Marnie says, \u201cand he\u2014unlike the others I\u2019d told\u2014took me seriously.\u201d)<\/p>\n
They started walking their dogs together, began dating that winter, and married in February 1998 while John was still an IDP student and Marnie was in her graduate program. By the time they both graduated in 2002, they had two young children. John was a familiar sight on campus, wearing a baby in a backpack (referred to by students as \u201cbackpack baby\u201d) and often walking two dogs.<\/p>\nWedding day photo of Marnie Richards Glazier \u201996, M\u201902 and John Glazier IDP\u201902; Photo by Robert Richards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cTrinity was home to us and our family for quite a few years,\u201d Marnie says. They had their wedding in the College Chapel and their reception in the Smith House, catered by Timothy\u2019s. John notes, \u201cWe had the wedding on campus partly because of our friendship with Steven Charleston, the chaplain at the time.\u201d John\u2019s father, William S. Glazer II \u201948, an Episcopal priest, also officiated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Chapel has always been a special place for us,\u201d Marnie says. \u201cBoth of our sons were baptized there, and we often spent quiet time together in the Chapel gardens before we were married.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus Halley, the College\u2019s current chaplain, has witnessed the significance of the Chapel in couples\u2019 lives. \u201cWhenever a couple who were married here returns\u2014for a visit or to renew their vows\u2014they seem to be transported back to the day they were married,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve seen this happen over and over. I imagine that the act of remembering that day also means remembering the journey of their lives together. I think a place like Trinity\u2019s Chapel helps people find perspective about the highs and lows and walk away with a bit more joy.\u201d<\/p>\nWedding day photo of Lacey Rose \u201910 and Carly Bernstein Rose \u201913; Photo by Jill Person<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
A different kind of special place factors into the story of Lacey Rose \u201910 and Carly Bernstein Rose \u201913. They had their \u201cfirst real date\u201d in Fenway Park at a Red Sox game in 2010. Lacey says, \u201cSometimes, in college, you\u2019re not sure if you\u2019re just hanging out or dating. But once we were both back home for the summer and removed from the college environment, we realized there was something more.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two were acquainted in middle school and high school\u00a0and knew each other\u2019s families but\u00a0were surprised to run into each other on the Trinity campus when Carly arrived as a first-year during Lacey\u2019s senior year.\u00a0\u201cI got a crush on a girl for the first time,\u201d Carly says, \u201cand Lacey was one of very few gay people out on campus, so\u00a0I reached out to her.\u201d By late spring, they had become very close. \u201cI thought she was the one after a month of spending time with her,\u201d Carly says.\u00a0But Lacey was more cautious.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u00a0didn\u2019t think it made sense for us to\u00a0try to\u00a0be together long distance while she was in college and I stayed in D.C. for several years. During that time apart, we both\u00a0established our careers. We\u00a0dated\u00a0other people. But, when we were together, it\u00a0always felt like home.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2019, when Lacey moved back to the Boston area, they reunited, and, in August 2020, she proposed to Carly\u2014at Fenway Park.\u00a0Lacey\u00a0had cold-emailed Sam Kennedy \u201995, Red Sox president and CEO, asking to have the park for an hour so she could propose to Carly on the field. Kennedy sent his assistant to set up, and Lacey hired the Red Sox photographer. Carly said yes,\u00a0and they\u00a0married in\u00a0August 2022.<\/p>\nWedding day photo of John C. Norman \u201962 and Elizabeth Lyra Ross-Norman \u201974<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Elizabeth Lyra Ross Norman \u201974 was not expecting to meet her future husband when she rushed straight from a job interview into a panel discussion with Trinity\u2019s Board of Fellows in February of her senior year. According to Norman, the board had invited all Black students to discuss how the College could better serve their needs, and the meeting\u2019s chair was John C. Norman \u201962, the only Black member of the panel, the only Black member of his class, and one of only six Black students at Trinity at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the students\u2019 demands were totally unrealistic, and I was concerned that they would just be written off,\u201d Elizabeth says. She knew something about negotiating because her mother, an educator, was the union negotiator for the school system where she worked, and her father, who worked for Ford Motor Company, was very active in the UAW. \u201cSo I wound up as the arbitrator, talking a lot and helping the students make suggestions that could actually be implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n
John took notice; they talked after the meeting and began dating shortly thereafter. Not wanting to get in the way of each other\u2019s careers\u2014hers as an opera singer (involving frequent travel) and his in education administration\u2014they often were separated, although never for longer than six weeks. \u201cWe finally decided that we could have our careers and be married,\u201d Elizabeth says. \u201cWe married in 1991 after one of the longest courtships in history.\u201d<\/p>\n
Halley notes that marriage is a journey that is not easily mapped out from the start. \u201cThe traditional vows have the two individuals promising to stay \u2018for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death.\u2019 Couples will need all the help they can muster to keep these promises,\u201d he says. \u201cLife is endlessly unpredictable, and if you want to remain married through all the ups and downs, you need to choose someone who can go through all of that uncertainty with you.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love weddings,\u201d he adds. \u201cI think they\u2019re a balm for a world that could always use more love.\u201d<\/p>\n
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