Diane (Motta) Malboeuf ’81

Diane (Motta) Malboeuf ’81 met her husband Ralph in 1979. She was in her first year at Becker, majoring in retail fashion. Ralph was a junior at WPI, majoring in electrical engineering. Ralph lived at Lamda Chi Alpha fraternity; Diane lived in Davis Hall. “My girlfriends and I quickly made friends with many of the guys living at the fraternity. Ralph and I started dating in the fall of 1979. Two years later, with graduation upon us, Ralph was heading to New York for a new job. I was moving back to Cape Cod, my hometown, with a job at a local retail store. In September of 1981, Ralph proposed, and a year later we had a beautiful wedding on Cape Cod,” Diane recalls. After working as a stay at home mom for 20 years, she now works part-time at a local hospital. Ralph works at IBM, and the couple happily resides in Westford, Mass.