My husband and I met here at CSUSB when it was still CSCSB in 1974. It was a really small student body then and the history department was similarly small as well. Being a history major, I pretty much knew the history students until that fall semester when a new guy showed up in an upper division class. "Must be a transfer student," I thought.

We were having a class discussion and he jumped right in and began participating in class. Really liked what I heard (and saw!), so at the end of class, I asked him to continue the discussion over coffee. He agreed and we had a cup of coffee in the room at the front of the library (vending machines, etc.).

We began dating shortly thereafter and we married in 1979 in Redlands. What I did not know until much later was that the day we first met was John's first day of college! Not a transfer student but a navy vet who had challenged courses and entered college in an upper division history class. He said that if he had known women would try to pick him up, he would have started college earlier.

Lucky me! He waited for the right moment to attend college. -Kathleen "Khak" Rezendes (B.A. history 1975) and John Herrick (B.A. history 1978, B.A. social sciences 1979).