Pumpkin Prize

Nita Ghosh '01 had met Ben J. Sommers '99 when he was still dating his ex-girlfriend. She sighed to her friend, the girlfriend of Ben's roommate, "I wish he were my boyfriend." A few years later, Nita was wooed by a now-single Ben at a pumpkin-carving party.

After three months of dating, the couple was already discussing marriage. Ben proposed the traditional way, with champagne, flowers and chocolate. "He's a very classical guy," Nita says.

Their wedding will be on June 8 next year, with services at St. Paul's Church in Cambridge. In the meantime, Ben will continue working at a Boston investment bank, and Nita will be working as a computer programmer.

They plan to rent a villa on the coast of Italy for their summer honeymoon.

A Lovely Research Proposal

Aja D. Eyre '01, née Fegert, had firsthand experience with the research material for her senior honors project. The Social Anthropology concentrator was doing fieldwork for her project on Mormon wedding receptions when she married Jonah J. Eyre, an England native now living in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The couple met two and a half years ago when Jonah, a graduate of Ohio State, was a visiting student for a semester at the University of Massachusetts. "I ended up staying in Boston much longer than I expected," he says happily. They built snowmen on the Boston Common on their first date.

Jonah proposed on New Year's Eve 1999 and the two married in March 2000. They took their honeymoon in Maui, Hawaii, and Aja came back to Harvard in the fall to finish her degree. They are expecting a baby girl in September and are getting ready to move to Las Vegas, Aja's home city, where Jonah will work as a custom home developer.

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