I met my wife, Angela Punnett, while playing Softball for the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy softball team. This was a coed league run by the grduate students. Every team was required to have a minimum number of women in order not to forfeit a game. While this was not a problem for the English and Psychology departments it was an ongoing problem for the Physics Dept. We came up with rather a creative method of solving this problem (as physicists are apt to do). We started a program where the Physics Dept would recruit smart first-year undergraduate female students who were enrolled in the sciences but not in physics and offer them summer jobs. Apparently the idea was that during the course of the summer they would fall in love with Physics and change their majors. I am not aware of any women who actually changed their majors but this program was a boon to the softball team which would aggresively recruit these women. Angela was one of these recruits. In her first year Angela used to immediately run away after the games and I did not get a chance to know her. However, in her second year (1991) she became more brave and used to accompany us to the graduate pub, The Phoenix. We then got the chance to know each other better and have been together ever since. We were married on Sept. 2 1995.
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