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Area couple to renew their Miami merger

Kyle and Susan Jones will renew their wedding vows on Saturday, June 20, as part of Miami University's efforts to break a world record of married couples renewing their vows together.

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By Lindsey Hilty, Staff Writer Updated 7:28 AM Thursday, June 18, 2009

FAIRFIELD — Susan and Kyle Jones fell in love at a church camp.

“We ended up just kind of staying up two nights talking by a camp fire and kind of instantly knew,” Susan Jones said.

While they had many things in common, one of them was a passion for area schools. The pair is especially fond of Fairfield City Schools, where Kyle Jones is a teacher at the high school and is the district’s energy manager. His wife, Susan, is a clerk at the Community Arts Center and plans to graduate from Miami University in 2010 in middle childhood education. Kyle Jones graduated from Miami in 2006.

This June they celebrated their first anniversary and plan to renew their vows at Miami University along with hundreds of other Miami grads who have married and are considered Miami mergers.

The goal of the Saturday, June 20, event is to break a Guinness World Record of 624, the number of married couples who renewed their vows together in Pittsburgh in 2008. Running shy of registered Miami grads, the university has now opened up the event to all married couples.

“We both have a real pride in the school that we go to and the schools that we’re involved with,” Susan Jones said. “This is something that we can do as a couple. I hope to see a lot of Miami mergers there so that we can break the record.”

Kyle Jones said he and Susan are fans of Miami hockey and take pride in the connection they share with the education program at MU.

“Definitely it’s one of the premier schools for education,” he said. “There’s the feeling if you have a degree from Miami, that’s significant.”

Contact this reporter at (513) 755-5067

or lhilty@coxhio.com.

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