Wedding Bells
Liz Murphy and Peter Hallock ’95 were assigned to the same table for their first sit-down dinner at Taft. They married last July.
“After six months, we’ve learned to take things in stride and to ‘just keep digging in the corners’ as Todd’s hockey buddies have been wisely telling him. We are so thankful of our Taft connections,” Amanda said. When Todd had surgery in Pittsburgh in February, “Brooks Fisher ’92, Henry Simonds ’93, and Sara Sutton ’92 (all Pittsburgh natives) were very helpful in making this difficult trip seem manageable.” Although it has been a challenging first year together, Amanda has been keeping family and friends up to date through their Web site, www.gov21.com. A summer romance also started things off for Shannon Engels ’86 and classmate Steve Turner, who will celebrate their 10th anniversary this summer. “Steve and I lived across the street from each other one summer on Nantucket after our freshman year in college.” Even though they went to different schools, the relationship grew. Although it would be an off-again on-again relationship for Peter Hallock ’95 and classmate Elizabeth Murphy, they met when both were assigned to Reggie Brulotte’s table for sit-down dinner the first night of their mid year. She was a new mid, and Pete had already been at Taft for a year. “Pete made some joke at dinner,” she said, “and I knew he was going to make me laugh anytime he opened his mouth. I was also roommates with Katama Guernsey Eastman, who grew up with Pete, and she was the catalyst behind our getting to know each other better.” Pete and Liz dated for three months that year, deciding to break it off on Valentine’s Day. “We still have issues celebrating that day!” she said. They reconnected the summer following their Taft graduation “while working on Martha’s Vineyard with a bunch of other Tafties,” but decided to call it quits in the fall when Pete went to Princeton and she to Bucknell. “There were definitely trips made between the two to see mutual friends,” she said. “So we kept in touch.” The third time was definitely the charm for these two when they met up again at a party by classmate Mary Firestone in 2000, “and the rest was history.” They married last July. Laura Ellis ’84 and classmate Jonathan Dworken sat next to each other in Bingham Auditorium for Vespers and assemblies for three Taft Bulletin Spring 2005
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