![]() ![]() The two have been married for 41 years and the University of Maryland is still a part of their lives. Winter break was the best time to get married because graduate students took their comprehensive exams in the summer and classes in the fall. The two were married on December 24, 1978, in Long Island, New York, at Tucker’s synagogue with friends from Maryland in attendance. Schwartz said yes, and they went to the Prince George’s Shopping Center - now The Mall at Prince George’s - to pick out rings. “Does that mean we’re engaged?” Tucker asked. After about a year of dating, one morning as they were having breakfast, Schwartz said to Tucker, “I think we should make this permanent.” Later that school year, they moved in together. “I remember wanting to be with him and having a good time when we were studying and doing other things, so I think it happened pretty quickly,” Tucker said. They aren’t sure when they realized they were in love, but they agree that their feelings developed fast. Once Schwartz’s grandfather learned what she had done, Tucker became a golden girl to the family. “I thought it was very inappropriate to meet his grandparents in a bathing suit.” “We were outside swimming and I found out that his grandparents were almost there, so I ran in the house, took off my bathing suit, and put on a skirt and a blouse,” she said. They went to New York for the holiday weekend and Tucker met Schwartz’s family for the first time. By Labor Day weekend, just a few short weeks after meeting, the two were in a committed relationship. He later told her that he was interested in a serious relationship, and she was open to pursuing one with him as well. ![]() I fell asleep,” she recalled with a laugh.ĭespite her conking out on him, Schwartz knew Tucker was special. “I laid down on the couch while he played the guitar, and the next thing he knew, I was out cold. Raised on classical music, Tucker enjoyed all kinds of music. Schwartz’s undergraduate degree from the University of Hartford was in physics, but he also minored in performance guitar and had just returned from a summer of intense master classes. It wasn't long before they were wrapping up their first dinner date, with Schwartz playing the guitar for Tucker in his apartment. He struck up a conversation and learned she was from New York, like him, and he made it a point to get to know her. When he saw her, he knew he could not simply let her pass by. ’81, applied mathematics) was gathering with some of her new classmates.Īs Schwartz descended the stairs to join the crowd, Tucker was going up the stairs. That’s where first-year graduate student Janine Tucker (M.A. ’80, applied mathematics) went to the math building to meet the department’s new graduate students. In August 1976, at the start of the school year, second-year Ph.D. Not even the brightest minds could have calculated the chances of such a perfect love story. Two applied mathematics graduates met at UMD in 1976 and have been married for 41 years. ![]()
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