Summer 2007

Internet search reunites couple who dated five decades ago

It took half a century and a Google search, but two college flames recently rekindled their romance into a marriage. Tom Pebworth, a 1957 chemical engineering alumnus, dated Lynn Hollis for two and a half years when he was a student at Rose Poly. Upon his graduation they amicably parted ways – he to a job in St. Louis and she continuing her studies at Hanover College. Both moved on with their lives, marrying other people and becoming parents. Each of them became widowed – Lynn in 1997 and Tom in 2005. He later decided to see if he could track down Lynn on the Internet using the Google search engine. He found her name on the staff page of the First Presbyterian Church in Youngstown, Ohio. An e-mail of inquiry led to confirmation that it was the same Lynn he knew in college. Other e-mails followed and soon they were meeting face-to-face at a Cracker Barrel Restaurant in Ohio. They married about a year ago and now live in Canfield, Ohio.