Barkley wanted to propose to Ausman in public. He asked Ausman to attend his final meeting as Undergraduate Council treasurer last October.
After giving his farewell speech, he said, “And there’s one more thing.”
He approached Ausman, recited lyrics from a love song and asked her to marry him.
Shocked, she began crying, and accepted.
“A lot of my friends were going to be at the meeting already, and we got to be on the front page of The Crimson,” Barkley says.
Barkley and Ausman will be married in Birmingham on Aug. 10. Barkley will attend law school at the University of Alabama and Ausman is currently looking for a job in Alabama.
Chemistry Between Them
April R. Gleason ’02
Alan B. Northrup ’00
April R. Gleason ’02 met Alan B. Northrup ’00 on the science league team for their high school in Lowell, Mass.
A year later they started dating, but had to get around Gleason’s parents’ rules.
They spent the beginning of the relationship—when Gleason’s parents thought she was too young to date—going out in a group.
After Northrup came to Harvard, they continued dating. The couple didn’t plan on attending college together, but once she got in to Harvard, she decided to attend to be near her family and boyfriend.
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