In the meantime: The couple is traveling to Israel, where Rappaport will do policy research on the elderly and at-risk youth for an American-Israeli research institute. Rosen will be on a Jerusalem-based fellowship program that combines studying and an internship program.
After tying the knot: Rosen will probably go to law school, and Rappaport will work or get a master's degree in public policy.
Let's Go...Out
Who they are: Rachel Perez '99 of Green Brook, N.J. and Kirkland House. Robert W. Martin '99 of Inverness, Ill. and Quincy House. Perez concentrated in psychology, Martin in economics.
How they met: They met briefly during Freshman Week--though Perez says Martin has no recollection of it--and met again at Harvard Student Agencies' Let's Go Travel, where Martin was the assistant manager of travel and Perez was a sales associate at the campus store.
"The reason I remembered his name was because my best friend and I had this ongoing joke about the name Bob," Perez says. "But he didn't remember my name and neither did anyone else at Let's Go Travel."
Eventually, he figured it out.
After a chance run-in in Annenberg Hall near the end of the year, they set up a time to play tennis. After playing, they went out for ice cream and talked for two hours.
Talk to the hand: A couple of weeks after Perez got home for the summer, she received a letter from him--with his phone number. They traded calls all summer and at the end of vacation he visited her and they went to Great Adventure theme park in New Jersey.
The day after Great Adventure, the duo went to the beach, to the boardwalk--to a palm reader. She didn't tell Perez anything interesting, but Martin got an earful. In the next month, he was fated to meet his true love, the woman with whom he would spend his life.
"At the time, I thought, 'I'd love to meet this girl,' because I thought he was kind of a player," Perez recounts.
After he left, he called to ask her out. They have been dating for almost three years.
He asked, she answered: On vacation in Santo Domingo over spring break, they were in a paddleboat and Martin was shooting pictures. When he ran out of film, he asked Perez to hand him a new canister from her bag. When she reached in, the canister was strangely heavy--with a ring.
When it's happening: October 21, 2000, in New Jersey.
In the meantime: Perez will work for the local company New Basics as a marketing associate. Martin, who graduated a semester early, will continue his current job at Trilogy Software in Austin, Texas. They are unsure of post-wedding plans.