David Massey ’81 and Diana Barger Massey ’84

My wife and I met at the end of 1970 while looking up our final grades on a list posted on a classroom door. It was our first quarter — not semesters back then — at what was then Florida Technological University.

We both lived in the original dorms, which didn’t have names, just letters: A and B for women and C and D for men. Dorm life made dating easier, especially since many of us didn’t have cars. We enjoyed on-campus movies, canoe rides, borrowed bicycles, hiking trails and ping-pong tables.

About 4½ years later, we were married. We later moved to the suburbs of Atlanta in 1989 and raised six children — four born in Central Florida and two after our move. Today, we have two granddaughters. Last year, we celebrated our 50th anniversary with a Disney cruise and stopped by campus to see how much it has changed. While we didn’t have cellphones or the internet back then, those FTU years remain some of the best memories of our lives.