Andy Roe, engineering 1993 Tonya (Fagerwold) Roe, biology 1994 lake oswego, oregon q: Where and how did you meet? andy: She hung out at West. I remember seeing her in the lounge her freshman year. Tonya: He had a big TV. So everyone came and hung out in his room. I was more interested in one of his roommates. andy: I lived in Atomic, one of the suites. Probably late ’80s through most of the ’90s, Atomic and Subatomic were two of the end suites in West. We were morally obliged to have a loud stereo system. We had constructed our room so that all of the beds and the desks were on one side and the other side had a couch and a TV and an air conditioner. q: How did you decide to get married? Did one of you propose? Tonya: Kinda! Andy and I started dating when I was a sophomore. andy: No! You were a junior. Tonya: Oh, you’re right. It was the year I lived in West. Then he graduated. We thought he was going back to Oregon, and he ended up going to grad
Travis Athougies, joint computer science and mathematics 2014
school at UC Irvine, so we moved in together for a year after college. Then he went to Los Alamos, New Mexico, for a job. We stayed connected but we weren’t dating. I was working in Ohio and couldn’t decide if I wanted to live in Chicago or move to Portland. I became really good friends with someone who lived around the corner from Andy in junior high. She said, “Oh, just live with me! You’re only here three weekends a month anyway.” We went camping; we had parties. Andy was in New Mexico, doing none of this. Then his 10-year high school reunion came along. He took me to the social night and some other girl to the formal night. andy: I was only going because she had stolen all of my friends, and I wanted to hang out with them. Tonya: I was like, “Why didn’t you take me to the formal night?” I really was sort of jealous! Right after that, we got back together. Within a couple of months it was like, alright, we’re ready. Let’s get married now.
Ileane (O’Leary) Athougies, joint computer science and mathematics 2014 mountain view, california q: Where and how did you meet? Travis: We met at a high-five before freshman year. Ileane: That’s sort of a pre-orientation Summer Institute. It started three weeks before the school year started. We met on the very first day. There were maybe 30 students. So, it’s kind of funny because we met before school even started and hit it off right away. Travis: By the end of the semester we were officially dating. q: When did you get married? Travis: We got married in San Francisco, on March 14, pi day. Ileane: And we got the extra digits, 15. q: How did you decide to get married? Did one of you propose? Ileane: Travis did! He took me to St. Peter and Paul’s. Travis’ family knows the priest there. It was over spring break, our senior year.
q: Do you know about the Seal Ponding tradition? Ileane: I don’t think it happens anymore. Maybe we were just lucky, but we weren’t dunked. Travis: We got dunked on our birthdays. Like, throw them in the shower. I don’t think engagements happen all that often. q: Do you have any advice for current Mudders who are starting a relationship with another Mudder? Travis: I think a lot of people feel that it’s hard to be in a relationship at Mudd or that it would cause added stress, but I don’t think either of us felt that it caused added stress. It kind of made things easier. Ileane: They say when you come to Mudd, you find your people.
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