Mount Love Stories

Amanda Atwood, Esq., C'13, and John "Jack" G. McGowan, C'13

"My husband and I met in August 2009 during our freshman move-in day. We became instant friends and remained so throughout our time at the Mount. We kept in touch after graduation and started dating during my second year of law school. After five years of dating, Jack proposed to me on December 25, 2019. We planned to wed at the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, but due to COVID restrictions, we were instead married on December 19, 2020, in an intimate Catholic ceremony at our home parish on Kent Island."

Mounties celebrate combined 240 years of marriage

Mount St. Mary’s and St. Joseph College have a long wedded tradition and it was never more evident than July 31, 2021, when five couples got together to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of Jim Clarke, C’70, and Marykay Hughes Clarke, SJC’72, who were married in New Hyde Park, New York, on July 31, 1971. Their daughter Katie, in Nashville, worked with Pete Benninger, C’70, and Bernadette Ackerman Benninger, SJC’72, to arrange for a catered dinner that Mary Mehl Doherty, SJC’72, and Joe Doherty, C’70, hosted at their home in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. The Benningers were married 50 years ago on June 12, 1971, in Baltimore. Gary Mazzucco, C’70, and Maryanne Mazzucco, SJC’70, and Jerry “Wahoo” Middlemiss, C’70, and Sandy Middlemiss helped to make this a fun and memorable time. The five couples account for 240 years of marriage.

(Left to right): Gary Mazzucco, C’70, Maryanne Mazzucco, SJC’70, Jim Clarke, C’70, Marykay Clarke, SJC’72, Sandy Middlemiss, Jerry Middlemiss, C’70, Joe Doherty, C’70, Mary Doherty, SJC’72, Bernadette Ackerman Benninger, SJC’72, and Pete Benninger, C’70

Carly E. Miller, C'20, and Michael J. Moynihan, C'18

"On July 27, 2021, I proposed to my college sweetheart after four years of being together. Carly and I first met when I was a junior at the Mount, and she was a freshman. Mount Athletics gave us the opportunity to meet and get to know each other better while I was on the men’s lacrosse team and she was on the women’s lacrosse team. If it wasn’t for the Mount, not only would I never have met Carly, but I wouldn’t have met my best friend and the woman with whom I will spend the rest of my life."

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