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This is an unconfirmed list. Some were already married when they arrived on the scene. Please help us identify those. Also any who were married to other persons when they arrived on the IT scene, denoted by *

Met and married at UT

Terry Alexander and Scott Dolan
George Kullenberg and Jane McClain
Bill Wagner and Barbara Galarneault
Monte Price and Anne Tormollan
Chuck McClenon and Lizanne Ledbetter - She was working in the School of Nursing, Continuing Education. They were assembling a mailing list, set up in ADABAS, in first name, middle initial, last name order. Chuck offered to help program name flipping logic. He did the flipping in READ order, which resulted in multiple flips and data mushification… so Chuck did the honorable thing and married Lizanne.
Luther and Michelle Keeler
Sherry Eubanks* and Terry Helton* - Sherry came to Data Processing at age 19 as a key punch operator, and was a supervisor at age 23. Terry was hired as a computer operator in 1977, but he was hired for night shift, and they were married to other people at the time. He left UT for private industry. Meanwhile Sherry came thru the side door into programmer training, and was hired by the Law school. Terry and Sherry had kept in touch, and married in 1986, Sherry retired as a Senior Analyst at age 50 with 31 years service – and not a college credit to her name.

note, the above might be in order of marriage date, thru here. After this, editors can rearrange. Or before this, if you know the details,

Ken Kouri and Christy Maney
Cindy and Jay Ramos
Deborah and Kirk Tate
Jen and Forrest Reynolds

Tracy* and Chris Caillouet*
Julie and Scott Johns
Elizabeth Komara and Kerry Johnson
Mike Guentzel* and Susan LaRonde
Steve Fleming and Jenny Busico
Eda and Tim Matthews
John Wheat* and Alice Hatfield
Frank* and Michelle Valiulis
Lori Mah and Dustin Slater

Trainees in the bullpen, Summer of Love, 2000

Dianne and Marc Parrish
Brian and Allison James
Olga and Juan Ortiz
Tim Chamberlain, met Lindsay Mounce, already at UT

Already married when they arrived

Ken and Joyce Gregory
Kevin and Barbara Craig
Bill Kaigler and Karen White
Deni and Jim Zwiener
EB and Cindy Ellis
Kristi and Derek Fisher

Already engaged when they arrived

Julie Zeigler and Karl Martinez - Karl mentioned in his interview with Keith Knippa that his fiancee would soon be joining him in Austin and would be seeking employment. Keith suggested that she, too, apply to the training program. They took a leave of absence during training to get married. They have since moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where both still work in IT: Julie at the University of Michigan and Karl at Dominos Pizza. They have two children: Sammy and Molly.

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