Age Quod Agis - Jesuit High School
Age Quod Agis - Jesuit High School
Age Quod Agis - Jesuit High School
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2001 & 2001<br />
DAnieLLe vinCenT ‘01<br />
miKe mCGrAin ‘01<br />
Although the newest <strong>Jesuit</strong> couple just recently got<br />
engaged, it was a long time coming. mike mcGrain ‘01<br />
and Danielle vincent ‘01 met at <strong>Jesuit</strong> but didn’t date until<br />
after their freshman year in college. That initial romance<br />
was short-lived because they both went to different colleges<br />
(he to University of San Diego and she to Boise State<br />
University).<br />
“We were young, and it just wasn’t smart,” Danielle<br />
says.<br />
But there was always something special between the<br />
two. When they saw each other over the years throughout<br />
college and afterward, the timing was never right; one of<br />
them was always dating someone else. When they attended<br />
the wedding of another <strong>Jesuit</strong> couple, Aristotle Thompson<br />
‘96 and Sarah Brock ‘98, they reconnected. The wedding<br />
was even held at <strong>Jesuit</strong> in the Knight Center, where the two<br />
began to rekindle their relationship.<br />
A <strong>Jesuit</strong> couple isn’t a new thing in Mike McGrain’s<br />
family. His older brother, Jason mcGrain ‘96, married<br />
maureen (mcDowell) mcGrain ‘97 in 2005. When Jason<br />
and Maureen attended <strong>Jesuit</strong>, they spent time with the same<br />
big group of friends. Many of their friends dated each<br />
other, but the two never went out during high school.<br />
When Maureen came home the summer after her<br />
freshman year at the University of Washington, she started<br />
spending more one-on-one time with Jason and the two hit<br />
it off. They returned to their respective schools (he attended<br />
the University of Oregon), but dated for the next seven<br />
years.<br />
<strong>Jesuit</strong> would have been a foundation for the couple<br />
even without marrying a classmate, though: Maureen’s<br />
brother graduated from <strong>Jesuit</strong> two years ahead of her,<br />
and Jason has four younger brothers who have all since<br />
graduated from the school. They’ve also stayed in touch<br />
with many of their high school friends and have widened<br />
their circle of friends as members of the group got married<br />
and started having children.<br />
Maureen and Jason had son Dylan in March<br />
2008. The couple stays involved at the school, playing in<br />
the Crusader Crunch alumni basketball tournament and<br />
supporting Jason’s brothers who graduated this past spring.<br />
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Danielle vincent and mike mcGrain<br />
After seven years apart, the couple started dating in<br />
May 2009 and after a year, Mike proposed in Scottsdale<br />
on a trip celebrating their one-year anniversary on May<br />
22. The couple plans to marry in 2011.<br />
“It’s cool that we have a common foundation,” says<br />
Danielle. “We both experienced <strong>Jesuit</strong> and we’ll want our<br />
kids to go there because we want the same experience for<br />
them.”<br />
1997 & 1996<br />
mAureen mCDOWeLL ‘97<br />
JASOn mCGrAin ‘96<br />
Jason and maureen mcGrain and son Dylan (2)<br />
Mark McDonald ‘95 & Staci (Hemstreet) McDonald ‘94 • Jason McGrain ‘96 & Maureen (McDowell) McGrain ‘97 • Terry Miller ‘95 & Katie (McNeal) Miller ‘95 • Joseph Niles ‘95 & Amanda (Stumpf) Niles ‘95
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