Isabella Gutierrez ’17 and Alexander Wallerstedt Keller ’18
“Alex and I have been launched to one another by mutual pals within the spring of 2016 throughout my junior 12 months and his sophomore 12 months. Alex’s fraternity brothers from Phi Delta Theta have been members of THUNK a cappella, as was I, and so they organized for the 2 of us to satisfy at Tommy Nevin’s, a neighborhood bar south of campus. We immediately hit it off and adopted up with dates together with espresso on Central Street, examine meetups at University Library, walks on the Lakefill, varied NU performances and a 90’s cowl band live performance at Evanston SPACE. I fell in love with Alex’s thoughtfulness and humorousness, and Alex with my heat.
John Keller ’88 and Lee Wallerstedt Keller ’88
Alex’s dad and mom (class of ’88) additionally met and fell in love at Northwestern some 30 years earlier. In truth, I used to be in the identical sorority and lived in the identical home as Alex’s mother, and Alex lived in Willard as a freshman like his dad. After commencement we moved all around the Northeast earlier than settling in New York City collectively in 2020. We have been married in Miami in 2022 surrounded by a number of generations of NU alumni. Alex is a supervisor on the technique staff at Major League Baseball and I work as a contract journalist after years as a nationwide correspondent at NBC News. We at the moment stay on the Upper West Side with our canine Pippa, who we rescued in Chicago whereas nonetheless in school, and we predict our first baby in March!”
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