Corinda Rainey-Moore and Bobby Moore
Corinda Rainey-Moore, community engagement manager
Bobby Moore, retired
How did your love story begin? Corinda: We met in 1980 on the campus of UW Madison. It was my first day on the campus so I was a freshman, and he was a senior. I had attended a party for incoming freshmen. He was in attendance at the party. His fraternity brother was the DJ. I did not know anything about fraternities and sororities at that time as I am a first-generation college student but it so happened I was wearing his fraternity colors, black and gold, that night. We ended up both applying for and getting an internship job working for the Affirmative Action Office. Bobby would be waiting for me each day on the corner to walk to work with me. He says he was looking out for me as a big brother. I told him I had plenty of big brothers (I have three) along with plenty of cousins so that was not what I needed. I ended up joining an organization called Alpha Angels, which was a sister group under his fraternity. From there, the rest was history. We begin dating. I say it was him and his fraternity that helped keep me at UW Madison. As a Black person on campus without the support that his fraternity gave me, I feel like I would not have stayed at UW. At that time, there were hardly any Black people. It was a very isolating campus.
Favorite thing about one another: Corinda: I love that my husband is one of the nicest persons I know. I love how he loves on his family and is not afraid to show it. He will do anything for any one and any body, especially his kids and grandkids. There is nothing he would not do for his grandkids. His friends sometimes make fun of him for how much he does for his family, but he does not care and it does not bother him. It is who he is. I feel that we complement each other well.
Bobby: I love how Corinda is able to juggle so many things and seems to be great at them all. She is on so many committees, yet she is devoted to her children and me. I love that she is able to accomplish all that she sets out to do with her last biggest accomplishment being getting her doctoral degree in Educational Leadership. I often joke with her that her obituary is full. She does not need to add another thing to her list of accomplishments. I am just so proud of her.
Favorite date night: Corinda: Sometimes, we will sneak away to a hotel without the grandkids and kids just the two of us with no devices and just to be together with no distractions. When you are as busy as us, this is so needed.
Bobby: I love Red Lobster so we will often go there together sometimes once a week for their seafood. Even though Corinda is not a seafood person, she will indulge me in this.
Favorite tradition you have as a couple: Corinda: My favorite tradition as a couple is that for every holiday we have always celebrated with our extended families on both sides. The beauty of this is that our kids and grandkids are so close with their family. We are both from Chicago so this allowed us to be able to celebrate with both sides of our families. A tradition that I love between just the two of us is that we will often drink morning tea together. My husband makes the best tea, and we will sit down each morning to discuss our day and have tea. This gives us our time together before we go onto our hectic day.
Bobby: I love celebrating milestones with the grandkids. It does not matter if it is an anniversary, birthday or holiday. We always celebrate as a family. This means so much to me.
What does your happily ever after look like? Corinda: My happily ever after is that I continue to have Bobby in my life. There is no other person that I would rather be with even after being with him over 40 years. My happily ever after is that we continue to love each other and our families. Bobby is retired but, hopefully, I will be able to retire in a few years, and we can spend time traveling. We will have our grandkids all either attending college or graduating from college. We will eventually watch them get married and have their own grandkids. Both our daughters will continue to be successful.
Bobby: Family is everything. Corinda will retire in a few years, and we will spend more time together. We will travel more, and just continue to enjoy each other and our families. We will just continue to be a blessing to others. The beauty of life is eventually we get to do whatever we want as a couple and as individuals but, most of all, we continue to love each other.