It was my junior year (fall of 1978) and I was working part-time at the school’s Administrative Computer Center and volunteering as a consultant in the Educational Computer Data Center located on 26th Street. As consultants we had a small work area with a small reference library, one bookcase of manuals that were kept locked behind a glass door, and a table where we could work with students who were having computer problems.
Students just wanting to look at the manuals had to sign for them and then return them as soon as they were done.
One day I found a student I did not recognize removing a manual from the lower level of this bookcase and I yelled (politely told him) that he was not allowed to be in this area without a consultant and that he was not allowed to remove any books without signing for them first.
He was very apologetic! As he turned around and stood up, I had to look up —I'm 6’1" and he is 6’7". I told him he could have any manual he wanted; it was love at first sight. It turns out he was checking out our school’s computer center to determine if this was the place to transfer to when he completed his associate degree at Queensborough Community College.
Needless to say he started attending Baruch College full-time the next semester. We married two and a half years later and have been together for 24 years.
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