Augie Sweethearts: John Timmerwilke and Patricia Brees, Class of 1963

Submitted by John Timmerwilke of Rockford, Ill.

Freshman year Pat dated Ron Tabor, while John and Ron were lunch buddies. Ron transferred to U of I his second year (returned to Augie as a Junior).

Pat and John were taking the same chemistry course as sophomores. We knew each other only as students and in no great detail. One day Pat came over to John to ask if he had any updates on how Ron was doing. We started to talk, date and then married between semesters our senior year.

We just celebrated our 55th anniversary; it must have been chemistry.

P.S. Ron was in our wedding party