Paper ballot required by CT State Legislature received and returned by mail. 100% independent of what you posted above, Glick's career and trustee experience, including on the School of Law's board, exhibit substantially more successful career and related trustee experience than all but maybe 1 other candidate. 1 vote cast for Glick!
I thought a few of you might be interested a reading excerpts of a talk I gave at the Law School in April at a reception for scholarship recipients and donors. It helps explain in part why I "give back" and wish to do so in non-financial ways too, like Board service:
"Dean Fisher, Donors, Scholars, Students, Faculty and Administrators,
Good evening and welcome to the Scholarship Reception, which affords an opportunity for donors, like me, to meet the UConn Law students who are the recipients of their giving. These scholarship students are able, in small part, to fulfill their professional dreams because of donors' investment in their futures.
I wanted to take a few minutes of your time today to explain why I became a donor. Donors' reasons for giving are varied. This is but one story.
The ...International Law Scholarship was established by me 25 years ago on the occasion of my father's 60th birthday and I've added funds to the scholarship over the years.
My father graduated from the prestigious Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan in the late 1940s. At that time, he had no choice but to join his family's small glass store business in the Yorkville section of Manhattan... When anyone asks my father where he went to college, he has for decades responded: "UCLA - University on the Corner of Lexington Avenue." But this didn't disguise the respect he had for learning and education, and I was a great benefactor of that respect.
When I arrived at the Law School in 1981 I had already spent six years in university, receiving a Bachelor's and a Master's Degree. And my father paid for every penny of those two degrees, as well as for my tuition for three years at the Law School. He would often, jokingly, tell people that I didn't have a full-time job or get off his payroll until I was 27 But it was no joke. I was lucky and greatly appreciated the opportunities afforded to me but not available to many other students. That was one of the main reasons why I established the scholarship.
But I also gave back because I loved [UConn], its students, its faculty and its administration, the Law Review and the International Law Society. Over the years, I am so pleased that I have gotten to know every dean of the Law School since I graduated in 1984. My wife and I have had the pleasure of hosting alumni receptions in London and Los Angeles, and I have spoken to students on my visits to the campus from Europe or the West Coast. I also have served on the Law School Foundation board. And I had the distinct honor of accompanying Professor (later Dean) McGill and Professor Janis to China in the late 1980s to help establish the international law program with Beijing's University of International Business and Economics, and also contributed to the first two editions of the ABA's Careers in International Law, edited by Professor Janis.
But it's the...International Law Scholarship of which I'm most proud. The fundraising priority for the Law School is scholarships. And with law school applications nationally on a downward trend for the better part of this decade, scholarships help the school enroll the best students available, like Samantha Bishop, class of 2017 and the current...International Law Scholar, who is with us today and who you will hear from shortly.
I hope that the donors here today are able to begin, if they haven't already, to build lasting relationship with student scholars. After all, I know you have much in common.
Finally, thank you donors for your support of these students which helps the Law School remain the best public law school in the Northeast, and one that offers exceptional value in legal education. And thank you student scholars - your scholarship, your academic study and achievement, your learning at a high level contributes in no small way to the school's intellectual environment and high academic standing.
Thank you one and all for being here."
