Big Money/High profile CT donors we need to be reaching out to....

[Hskies4Ever]

GE is dead as we know it, so no real loss for CY. In practical terms, UTC didn’t make any significant move. But don’t let us get in the way of the CT is failing rallying cry. Last I saw, CT economic growth was Top 15 in the country (after lagging basically forever).

How dare you present facts that show Connecticut isn’t completely awful?

 

[LIUCHusky]

Steve Cohen and Ray Dalio.

And neither have any relationship with UCONN.

 

[wolfman61]

General Dynamics: Official Nuclear Submarine of UConn football.

I work there, I don't know how big that would go over as the engineers all seem to be big ten grads.

 

[RioDog]

Engineers? No problem, Just tell them the requirement to support the local U. football team is an ASME standard, They'll all in line.

 

[uconnyankee]

Alan Lazowski.

 

[Get a Job]

Engineers? No problem, Just tell them the requirement to support the local U. football team is an ASME standard, They'll all in line.

This is probably the only feasible strategy. I'm an engineer and have worked among others for my whole 10 year career. I have yet to meet an engineer who gives a flip about their alma mater's sports teams.

 

[Platt81]

This is probably the only feasible strategy. I'm an engineer and have worked among others for my whole 10 year career. I have yet to meet an engineer who gives a flip about their alma mater's sports teams.

Do you?

 

[BlueandOG]

Wiffle Ball is based in The Ripper, Shelton CT.

 

[Get a Job]

Do you?

Yes, but I was a UConn fan long before I became an engineer, so I don't apply.

 

[History Geek]

This is probably the only feasible strategy. I'm an engineer and have worked among others for my whole 10 year career. I have yet to meet an engineer who gives a flip about their alma mater's sports teams.

You need to make new work friends. A lot of my friends from college are both engineers and fans of UConn athletics. Quite rabid fans actually.

 

[Get a Job]

You need to make new work friends. A lot of my friends from college are both engineers and fans of UConn athletics. Quite rabid fans actually.

Agreed. It's quite disappointing. I must be simply unlucky. Although I exaggerated in saying I have met zero engineers that care about their college teams, it is definitely true that the vast majority of the times I have met a UConn engineer and brought up basketball or football, the response is something along the lines of, "Yeah, I don't really follow that."

 

[methodology]

GE is dead as we know it, so no real loss for CY. In practical terms, UTC didn’t make any significant move. But don’t let us get in the way of the CT is failing rallying cry. Last I saw, CT economic growth was Top 15 in the country (after lagging basically forever).

GE is up almost 14% over the past year and have a market cap over $108 billion they are not dead

 

[Greedo]

This is probably the only feasible strategy. I'm an engineer and have worked among others for my whole 10 year career. I have yet to meet an engineer who gives a flip about their alma mater's sports teams.

Go to the south. Before becoming a teacher I worked at an engineering firm outside Atlanta. Every single person there was either going hard for Georgia Tech or Florida every Saturday.

 

[DOZE860]

I work there, I don't know how big that would go over as the engineers all seem to be big ten grads.

When i drive past there I noticed that there is a big UCONN flag in the window of that grey building.. that wouldn't happen to be your cube..?

 

[Griggs]

Wiffle Ball is based in The Ripper, Shelton CT.

Have lived in Shelton all my life. (73 years ). Never heard of the term "The Ripper " in reference to Shelton. Even worked at Wiffle Ball while in high school.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Have lived in Shelton all my life. (73 years ). Never heard of the term "The Ripper " in reference to Shelton. Even worked at Wiffle Ball while in high school.

Before Shelton was called Huntington
It was part of the town of Stratford and called the Parish of Ripton
I believe Monroe was also part of the Ripton area. Shelton was renamed around 1916 with some Huntington residents refusing to accept the decision.
I‘m a Genealogist and my wife has connections to early Fairfield County .
Parts of Stratford and Fairfield broke off from those two towns and formed Statfield later known as Bridgeport.
Ansonia Seymour , and Oxford were part of Derby.
If your researching people you have to know the original names.
Otherwise it’s quite confusing.

 

[Palatine]

GE is dead as we know it, so no real loss for CY. In practical terms, UTC didn’t make any significant move. But don’t let us get in the way of the CT is failing rallying cry. Last I saw, CT economic growth was Top 15 in the country (after lagging basically forever).

LOL. GE is dead? It made 79 billion dollars in 2020. We should all be so dead. You post is unsupportable by facts and patently absurd.

Headquarters: Boston, MA
Founded: April 15, 1892, Schenectady, NY
Revenue: 79.62 billion USD (2020)
Number of employees: 205,000 (2020)
Subsidiaries: GE Healthcare, GE Aviation, GE Digital, GE Capital, MORE

 

[WestHartHusk]

LOL. GE is dead? It made 79 billion dollars in 2020. We should all be so dead. You post is unsupportable by facts and patently absurd.

Headquarters: Boston, MA
Founded: April 15, 1892, Schenectady, NY
Revenue: 79.62 billion USD (2020)
Number of employees: 205,000 (2020)
Subsidiaries: GE Healthcare, GE Aviation, GE Digital, GE Capital, MORE

They made more money than that in…1998. They topped out in 2008 at 182B and its been downhill since. The $79m comes one year after making $95B and immediately precedes an announcement that they are splitting into 3 companies.

GE. IS. DEAD.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

LOL. GE is dead? It made 79 billion dollars in 2020. We should all be so dead. You post is unsupportable by facts and patently absurd.

Headquarters: Boston, MA
Founded: April 15, 1892, Schenectady, NY
Revenue: 79.62 billion USD (2020)
Number of employees: 205,000 (2020)
Subsidiaries: GE Healthcare, GE Aviation, GE Digital, GE Capital, MORE

They’re no longer a major player in CT since they moved corporate from Fairfield to Boston so as far as the discussion goes they may as well be dead.
Is there a GE facility at all in Ct. ? I‘Ave lost touch.

 

[Bongo Fury]

About 20 years ago there were quite a few GE facilities in CT. They were enormous and old ( Bridgeport) with only a handful of employees. Ghost factory. Think they kept them open so they wouldn’t have to clean them up.

 

[NEforceUConn]

So I conclude that GE executives should not be courted as big money boosters?

 

[PWS]

greetings from New London, Virginia class sez hello.

Thames River, Connecticut. a leader in the world of technology.

Actuall, the greetings should be from Groton

 

[Palatine]

They made more money than that in…1998. They topped out in 2008 at 182B and its been downhill since. The $79m comes one year after making $95B and immediately precedes an announcement that they are splitting into 3 companies.

GE. IS. DEAD.

Completely insane.

 

[uconnric]

Completely insane.

GE is desperately trying to reinvent themselves and will be splitting into 3 companies. Dead? No but nowhere the juggernaut they once were.

 

[BPT2Storrs]

Until we get the wealthy in this state to realize that UConn is a great academic institution we will have trouble getting donations. In my mind the wealthy in Connecticut (and this region in general) tend to look down UConn and perhaps public universities entirely. Point blank is I’ve heard people say UConn isn’t all that special yet the schools their kids attend are either on par or less academically rigorous. Fascinating stuff really.