On Military Leave Long Enough to Get Married (Gulbrandson '23, Shattuck '23)
Published on July 7, 2026
After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy, Emma Shattuck and Anders Gulbrandson dated face-to-face about 22 percent of the time.
They each graduated from the Naval Academy with Bachelor of Science degrees — Shattuck in English and Gulbrandson in chemistry. He also received a master’s degree in chemistry as a Churchill Scholar from the University of Cambridge.
On June 20, after being apart for 11 months, the couple married in a self-uniting ceremony before 162 guests at the bride’s family farm, with Captain David J. Durkin, the groom’s mentor at Annapolis, taking part.
BZ '23!