It was her first year at the small community college in Milwaukee when Mrs. Dickenson, student services secretary, met her now husband of thirty years at a party. Three months later he proposed.

“We were at his Fraternity house,” Dickenson said, “He asked me to marry him.” Dickenson said she did not expect the proposal at all.

A year and a half later they were married.

“It was a big wedding in Iowa on a Friday night,” Dickenson said.

“It rained on my wedding and they usually say that’s how many tears a bride sheds,” Dickenson added, “but that wasn’t the case. We’ve been married almost thirty years.”