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Diane Kovacs

Diane Kovacs

Web teacher/librarian | Alumni Leadership Award | Class of 1985

An Illini love story, Red Herring Coffee House edition ...

“I met my husband at the Red Herring — I guess it is now a Vegan restaurant — in the basement of the Channing-Murray Foundation," says Diane Kovacs (BA '85, anthropology; MS '89, library and information science).

"I hung out there a lot because I like tea and coffee much better than beer. And I loved all the open mike nights, both music and attempted comedy and poetry. 

“Good peoples. Good memories”