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John and Angela (Cunningham) Bazin met at Eastern, but not as students. Their story started in fall 2000 when John began working as the hall director of Crandall Hall. Angela was already at Eastern in her second year as the hall director of Burr Hall. Angela and John knew right away that there was a connection. But John had to make the first move; if he had left it to Angela, they might still just be friends.
Angela said, “From the beginning, when we would hang out, play tennis with other hall directors or racquetball — sometimes I would beat him! — or just watch TV, it seemed like I had known him forever. It just felt right.” She was right.
They married on June 21, 2003, and welcomed their son, Keith, in 2005 and their daughter, Abby, in 2010.
Eastern truly is their home; they live in Willimantic, where Keith just graduated from high school and Abby is going into eighth grade. John and Angela enjoy watching Keith and Abby’s soccer games, vacationing at the beach and going on cruises, having just recently returned from a cruise to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary.
“Life is perfect,” says Angela. “We work hard and we enjoy the work we do. We have great kids, and we laugh a lot. We really cannot imagine a life without Eastern at the core. Everything we have together is because of Eastern.”
Angela and John are still serving Eastern and its students. John has moved on from his hall director days, later working in student activities and the registrar’s office, and is now Associate Vice President of Employee and Labor Relations. Angela works in housing to this day, moving on from hall director to area coordinator to associate director of housing. She was then the acting director of housing for three years from 2009 to 2012 and recently finished her second year as the permanent director of housing.
Without fate bringing them to Connecticut — after Angela finished graduate school in Pennsylvania and John in Massachusetts — this is one match that never would have been made
