Augie Sweethearts: Helen Moretz '64 Stahl and Dick Stahl ¡¯63

An Iowa Commuter¡¯s Eye
By Dick Stahl '63

One look at her face in the crowded hall between classes 
on second floor of Old Main was enough. Like a snapshot,
her image developed in my mind as I wondered what it would take 
to date someone like that. We crossed paths on the sidewalk to East Hall, 
but I said nothing. Friends usually accompanied her.

One October noon in Denkmann Library, 
I glanced right. It was her¡ªten feet away¡ªreading
and alone. I freshened up in the men¡¯s restroom, took a drink
at the fountain, and passed her once, then almost twice,
before joining her. She was elementary education, and her name
was Helen Moretz from Tiskilwa, Illinois. I reread Poe¡¯s To Helen.
I was in love too.

¡°That was the only day in four years I did not go to Westerlin for lunch,¡±
she later revealed like Destiny¡¯s Sweet Dessert.

Helen ¡¯64 and Dick Stahl ¡¯63
Married June 29, 1948
First Lutheran Church, Princeton, Illinois
Golden Wedding Anniversary coming
June 29, 2018