Augie Sweethearts: Callie Gladish and Kyle Pankow, Class of 2012

Submitted by Callie Gladish of McFarland, Wis.

My parents met each other at Augustana, so I always had a feeling I would find my sweetheart while I was attending there as well. Kyle and I met in 2009 at a GAB Arbor Day party just after both of us had finished pledging, GAB and Phi Rho. Kyle came up to me, we starting talking, and hit it off right away.

He told me later that he'd never gone up to a girl like that before, and talked to her, just because he thought she was pretty. We started dating on April 12, 2010, and three years later got married on that same day. Now we live in Madison, Wisconsin with our son, Oliver, who will be 1 in July. I can't imagine my life without either of my sweetheart boys.