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In honor of Valentine’s Day, alumni couples share their on-campus meet-cutes, marriages and cherished memories.
During graduation weekend for Northwestern’s Class of 2025, President Michael Schill sat down with Commencement speaker Steve Carell ’25 H, parent of both a recent alum and a current student. Schill’s test sparked a novel rendition of the Northwestern fight song and a discussion of the challenges of improvising Chekhov and featured a spoiler-heavy recap of Carell’s recent TV roles.
Meet a few representatives of the great Class of 2025 who are leaving Northwestern, degrees in hand, to do great things in the world.
Terry Jacobson ’69, ’74 MS and Morrene Panitch Jacobson ’69 In retrospect, it was fortunate that I was unable to get campus housing until my second quarter at Northwestern. Terry and I met in September 1965 in the Men Off Campus (MOC) lounge in Scott Hall.
During graduation weekend for Northwestern’s class of 2024, President Michael Schill sat down with Commencement speaker Kathryn Hahn ’95, ’24 H of Transparent, Bad Moms and WandaVision fame. Their fast-paced conversation covered everything from Hahn’s favorite spots on campus to her coolest Hollywood friends and, of course, the best kind of pizza.
Members of the Class of 2024 share their memorable moments, favorite projects and more.
Love can bloom anywhere on campus, from a wrestling match to band camp! Here’s how Northwestern helped bring these couples together.
One of the first “backpack journalists,” Kevin Sites ’89 MS covered conflicts and disasters across the globe, including a yearlong endeavor to cover every conflict region in the world. Those experiences informed his debut novel, The Ocean Above Me, about an emotionally traumatized war correspondent who finds himself fighting for his own life — and confronting his past mistakes — during a harrowing shipwreck.
THE ADVOCATEBorn and raised in Los Angeles, Ramzy Issa came to Northwestern as a Posse Scholar. Issa’s family is from Palestine, and during his time on campus he served as a co-president of the Middle East and North African Student Association.
