Pauline Frances Perkins and Ryan Campbell Crocker were married Oct. 20 at the Grand Isle Lake House in South Hero, Vt. Flower Moye, a friend of the couple, received permission from Vermont to solemnize the marriage.
Mrs. Crocker, 30, is known as Polly. She is a watershed planner for the wastewater department of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. She graduated from the University of Vermont and received a master’s degree in watershed science and policy from California State University, Monterey Bay.
She is the daughter of Dorothy Odle Perkins of Tacoma, Wash., and David D. Perkins of Centreville, Va. The bride’s father is a science and technology adviser in Fairfax, Va., at the Mitre Corporation, which provides research and development support to government agencies; he also retired as an Army lieutenant colonel in the counterintelligence division, at the Pentagon. Her mother is a pastoral counselor for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Tacoma, and retired as a colonel from the Army intelligence division, serving in the Africa command in Stuttgart, Germany.
Dr. Crocker, 35, is a senior engineer, conducting research on computational fluid dynamics, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. He graduated from Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., with bachelor’s degrees, both with distinction, in civil engineering and in mechanical engineering, and received a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Vermont.
He is a son of Vickie M. Whitcomb of Portland, Me., and Richard W. Crocker of Putney, Vt. The groom’s father retired as self-employed carpenter in residential construction in Putney, and is now a sheep farmer there.
The couple met in 2007 while playing ultimate Frisbee in the regional club league that included both the University of Vermont, and Clarkson. The two began dating after he began graduate school at Vermont.
