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Message: [QUOTE="Gampel91, post: 4563164, member: 10577"] Didn't see this posted anywhere but the Boneyard received a shout-out in the latest UConn Alumni magazine. [URL unfurl="true"]https://magazine.uconn.edu/2023/02/14/class-notes-spring-23/[/URL] [IMG alt="Keith Gaither surrounded by fellow UConn huskies, former Husky coach E. J. Barthel, Farina, running back Victor Rosa and his parents Deanna and Glenn."]https://magazine.uconn.edu/content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_1885-1.jpg[/IMG] ➼ The amazing online alumni community that is the Boneyarders rallied around a Husky fan in need. A GoFundMe callout for $600 to help with transportation costs for Keith Gaither, who has cerebral palsy, to get to a football and/or basketball game this year exploded. In just a week, $2,000 had been raised. UConn Athletics got into the act and instead of getting to one or two games, Gaither had been, by mid-December, to three football, three men’s basketball, and two women’s basketball games, with some serious backstage encounters to boot. “I thought he was gonna pass out when he met Coach Auriemma,” says friend Paul Farina. “Paige [Bueckers] as well. I actually enjoy watching his reactions more than I enjoy meeting these people myself.” Above from left: former Husky coach E. J. Barthel, Farina, Gaither, running back [B]Victor Rosa ’26 (BUS)[/B] and his parents Deanna and Glenn. [/QUOTE]