When WZND student director Kim Crouse ’08 selected Joe Scrima ’07 as part of the promotions team based on his qualifications, she had no idea he would also be all she was looking for in her future husband.
The two met through their involvement in the campus radio station in the spring semester of 2006. Joe was an applicant interviewed by Kim. The two formed a friendship as they spent more time together in Fell Hall and began dating that December. Their first date was at a Chicago arcade, where they played skee-ball and drove race cars.
Two years later they both graduated with bachelor’s degrees in mass communication. They remained a couple while pursuing their careers. After five years of dating, Joe proposed to Kim in Downtown Chicago.
“The proposal was a total surprise and very romantic!” said Kim, who thought the evening was going to be a girl’s night out with her cousin. Joe had her cousin trick Kim into coming downtown, so she wouldn’t know he would be proposing.
“We hit the town and went to Rosebud for dinner in Little Italy and then to ROOF at the Wit hotel where my cousin Kara Mead and her now fiancé Mike Rice, both Illinois State alumni, met us to celebrate.”
The University remained special to Kim and Joe, who chose to have their engagement pictures taken on campus at the couple’s bench dedicated to those who fell in love at ISU, located near the Bone Student Center.
They married on a hotel rooftop in Las Vegas overlooking the entire strip on September 15, 2012. Today Kim works as a meeting planner for American Express Global Business Travel. Joe is a testing services manager at Harper College. They reside in Naperville.
Do we know who the bench at ISU is based on or who donated it?