Love at LMU

Kristen Green ’12 and Julian Portera ’13

Julian and I first met in 2010, when he moved into the same Rains hallway. We quickly became friends, and would work/study in the Rains study room, especially during finals! He was a bit of a procrastinator, so there was a particular moment where he was finishing two major assignments and was pulling an all-nighter. I saw him in the study room late at night, as I was walking back to my dorm, and he looked really stressed and tired. I went in there and gave him a big hug, letting him know everything was going to be ok. It was at that moment, that we both knew there could be something special between us!

As the year went on, we started hanging out more and more. By the time the school year ended, he worked up the courage to ask me out on an official date.

Brent Lloyd ’12 and Pricilla Cotton ’12

Pricilla enrolled and began her undergraduate journey at LMU in the fall of 2008, living in Del Rey South.

Brent enrolled at LMU to join the following spring semester. As Brent got notification of his acceptance, he did what anyone did back in those days, which was to update his Facebook education status to display as a LMU Lion and join the LMU Facebook group.

The very first person to reach out and welcome Brent to the Lion family just so happened to be Pricilla. 

Lee Proctor ’72 and Ed Proctor ’71

I arrived at LMU in the fall of 1969 coming from the small town of San Luis Obispo. Trying to meet new people, I was invited to a Sigma Phi Delta frat party.

At one of their annual pool parties, it was customary for all male guests to be thrown into the pool. All who came expected it and enjoyed the laughter that came with that. Ed came to that pool party and he was ceremoniously thrown in. Looking like a drowned rat, he stepped out of the pool, walked directly over to me and asked if I wanted to have dinner. 

Leonard Turcios ’14 and Jessica (Bowman) Turcios ’14

Freshman year I knew of my wife, Jessica Bowman, through mutual friends and crossing each other's paths regularly in the dorm building, Del Rey South. Although things became more serious after I saw her and asked her to dance at the Sursum Corda ABC Dance.

After that night we spent nearly every day with each other. Jessica majored in dance, and I loved watching her perform at the fall and spring showcases. She even included me in the student run spring show, Impulse, as well as her senior thesis. As I majored in electrical engineering, we didn't have much opportunity to share classes. Although during our last semester senior year we were both able to take African Drumming with Monti Ellison, that was a blast.