After every campus tour, we know visitors fall in love with RMC’s historic 125-acre campus. But this Valentine’s Day, we’re giving special attention to those Yellow Jackets who fell in love on RMC’s campus (and there are lots and lots and lots of them!).

Thanks to these couples who shared their story of meeting the love of their life while attending Randolph-Macon College. It’s always a great day to be a YJ, and even more so when you get to share those days with another Yellow Jacket!

 

 

Buzz ’22 & Becca ’22 Anthony

How did you meet? 

“We met in January of our freshman year (2018) when our basketball teams were hanging out. After that we became great friends! We played intramurals together all throughout the spring and worked basketball camps together throughout the summer. It was a blast! We started dating that summer, on July 8, and have been together ever since!”

What is your favorite RMC memory together?

“Our favorite memory together at Randolph-Macon was during the 2020 ODAC championship where both our teams got to watch each other win a championship and celebrate together! It was an awesome day for so many reasons, but we had seen how much hard work and sacrifice each of us had put into the season, so getting to experience the payoff together was incredible! Not to mention getting to win with all of your best friends!”

 

 

Amy ’96 & Kevin ’96 Richardson

How did you meet?

“My brother Brandon Thorne ’97 introduced me to the guys on his hall the first day he started as a freshman and I was a transfer. Kevin transferred in as well, and we met at a cookout at the fountain in August 1993.”

What is your favorite RMC memory together?

“All of them!”

 

 

 

Valerie ’05 & Matthew ’05 Moore

How did you meet?

“We officially met in the fall of 2004 when Dr. Gowan assigned me a tutor for his Environmental Studies class, though I had seen Matt before with the Phi Delta Thetas.”

What is your favorite RMC memory together?

“Our favorite from when we were in school was when “Castle Exile”—the house on Mullen Drive where Matt lived—had a Christmas Party to end all Christmas parties, complete with a light show from all the houses on the street. Our favorite memory from after we graduated was when he proposed in front of the flagpole, or when we got married in Duncan Chapel. Another favorite is the time we were walking to Ashland Coffee and Tea and two professors tried to convince me not to marry him so that he could go spend the winters off the coast of Maine for a project on which they were working.”

 

 

Hailee Jennings ’20 & Caleb James ’21

How did you meet?

“We met at Seaworthy in September of 2017! Seaworthy is an event held during Welcome Weekend that allows incoming students to meet one another. We were playing “Rock Paper Scissors” when Caleb walked up and introduced himself to me.”

What is your favorite RMC memory together?

“Experiencing our first RMC win over Hampden-Sydney in 2017. Caleb was a member of the RMC football team.”

 

 

 

Brianna Ciuffo ’19 & Kyle Cherry ’18

How did you meet?

“We met in August 2016 at pep band rehearsal in Blackwell Auditorium!”

What is your favorite RMC memory together?

“Our favorite Randolph-Macon College memory is traveling to Ottawa, Canada in 2018 with the Franklin Debating Society to compete—and we won!”

 

 

 

 

Emily Hewitt ’16 & Jack Miller ’16

How did you meet?

“We met in the commons area of Andrews Hall our first semester of freshman year through mutual friends. Jack lived in Andrews and I lived in Garland Hall. We officially became a couple during January term of our freshman year. After two years of long distance post-graduation, Jack proposed in August 2018, and we got married in October 2020.”

What is your favorite RMC memory together?

“We have so many fun memories of hanging out with our friend group in freshman village, Conrad Hall, Kappa Alpha, and the senior apartments. We always loved (and still love) tailgating at Homecoming and the Hampden-Sydney game.”

 

 

Saunders Riley ’19 & Michael Bly ’18

How did you meet?

“We met at Homecoming in 2016. Some guy started throwing carrots at me at a tailgate and we have been together since.”

What is your favorite RMC memory together?

“Too many to choose from since it’s always a great day to be a YJ!”

 

 

 

 

Dan ’82 & Kathy ’81 Reardon

How did you meet?

“Kathy was a year ahead of me. When I was a freshman, she was the homecoming queen, so I knew who she was. After that we even played in a pick-up basketball game against each other, but she had no idea who I was.  When I was a junior and she was a senior, we had a term called ‘Colloquy’ (now called January term) where you took just one intensive class for the month of January.  Some of them were travel classes, and we both signed up for one that went to India for the month. We spent a month in India together and got to know each other there—and the rest is history!  When people ask where we met, we always say India (which usually invokes further curiosity and discussion!), but I guess technically we met at Randolph-Macon.”

 

 

Mark ’20 & Krysta ’20 Link

How did you meet?

“We met at a baseball game prior to Camptown (a music festival held at Randolph-Macon) in the Spring of 2016, before we came into the College as freshmen.”

What is your favorite RMC memory together?

“Attending each other’s fraternity and sorority formals together.”

 

 

 

Forrest ’89 & Stephanie ’90 Lewis

How did you meet?

“She first saw me in the musical Fiddler on the Roof my freshman year. I met her after she pledged Alpha Gamma Delta.  We basically knew all of each other’s friends and were both English majors.  We didn’t hang out even once while students together, but started dating in Stephanie’s senior year.”

What is your favorite RMC memory together?

“Alpha Gamma Delta’s Barn Dance in 1990. It was our first RMC event attended as an official couple.”