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Image Description: Gary and Lydia Abdullah smile while standing in front of a Forum on Black Affairs backdrop.
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Lydia and Gary Abdullah are longtime State College residents who met at Penn State in the early 1970s. They talked with WPSU s Cheraine Stanford about the evolution of their relationship and what’s made their marriage work for more than four decades.
Here is the interview
Cheraine Stanford
Welcome to Take Note on WPSU. I m Cheraine Stanford. On today s show, we re going to hear a love story. It s the love story of Gary and Lydia Abdullah: two State College community leaders who met when they were students at Penn State in the early 70s. During their more than 45 years of marriage, they ve had to adjust to changes in social mores and learn to balance their work and personal lives. Both Gary and Lydia worked at Penn State Gary as a writer and editor in the College of Agricultural Sciences with a stint at WPSU-FM, and Lydia, who w
She arrived in Happy Valley as a Penn State freshman in 1972, and she’s never left. She married her college sweetheart, gave birth to two children and now dotes joyfully on three grandchildren.
But even though she brims with pride over those loved ones, Lydia Abdullah has never limited the exercise of her motherly gifts to her own family. In fact, Mrs. Abdullah has also showered empathy and hugs on others throughout the Centre Region. That’s why she richly deserves selection as my “Happy Valley Mother of the Year.”
Although I admit my own limitations in choosing among our community’s many fabulous moms, I am nonetheless proud of the three honorees: