Interview of Ella and Kevin Boyd

Agriculture Field Day, April 24, 2004
Interviewer: Kara Kreuter
Transcriber: Kara Kreuter
Ed. B. McCay April 24, 2006

Q: This is Ella Boyd and Kevin Boyd. What was your favorite Ag Field Day memory?

A: By Passion Puddle with our friends and our kids when we came back a few years after graduation. A group of us came back and we all brought our kids and saw all the couples.

Q: Did you all meet here or just the two of you?

A: We had a group of friends that we all met at Cook Some of the spouses didn't meet at Cook. It was a group that was in Animal Science and then a few other auxiliary people.

Q: I know you just told me before, but it wasn't on tape. Would you mind repeating how you two met?

EB: We lived in the Newell Apartments the first year that they were constructed. I was in apartment 90 and Kevin was in…

KB: And I was in 91. You were the upstairs maids, the women, the five girls in your apartment, with three apartments of boys. You were the upstairs maids.

EB: It wasn't bad.

KB: And your one roommate was Barbara and we called her Barbs Bordello.

EB: Yeah, one day they decorated the inside of the four apartments with a sign “Barb's Bordello” and “Free Girls, No Waiting” and it was kind of funny.

KB: We had a real nice group of people in this quad.

Q: That sounds incredible.

A: Yeah, it was neat.

A: Well, we had Gerry Buckoff who was in the apartment across from yours. He was cooking one day and I don't know what he had. He must have had some old rotten beef and he was cooking the stuff and the horrible smell went through all four apartments. I think he was still going to eat it, but we talked him out of eating it. It was like that doesn't smell right; I don't think he should eat that.

Q: That is pretty funny. Is there anything, what is your funniest memory or what sticks out the most? What has changed the greatest since you were here?

A: There a lot more buildings. Yeah just the modernization and keeping up with society and science.

Q: Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

A: Oh, absolutely. The whole food science building is like double the size that it was or there is a building next to it or something.

Q: Is it now an office building?

A: No, the one towards the dorms.