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Who on here is a UConn Alum? And who is not? I am.

Had to check dates with my 95-year old Mom who never misses a game!

Raised in Bristol. My Dad did his Masters (ME) in '55-'56. With 4 kids, I was usually sent along with Dad to give Mom a break, and waited in the car while he went to evening class (after his work). I was 5-6, so I do remember wandering around the campus as much as I could escape.

Was in CT All-State Band in '66-67' (French Horn) and we met and played in the stands outside the field house. Ate stale bag lunches in the stands. The field house looked leaky already.

Went to Univ Denver (Math) '68-70' where I basically taught skiing full time at Arapahoe Basin.

Came back to complete at UCONN (Psych/Math minor) '72.
Played in the Band at games. No French Horns now as all today's horns face forward to impact!

Did an MBA (PKE) at Pepperdine '80-'82. As a consultant, helped turn Pac Bell in CA from a utility to a profit-making culture along with the original management team at Procter & Gamble, now consulting.

Now in CA, got back into the UCONN women through my Mom, who never misses a game, going way back.

I was never a fan of watching sports on TV. Ever. And never a fan of basketball. I lived in Santa Fe, NM at 8,500' ('76-'85), had 3 boys, and ended up in Carmel, CA in 1985. Didn't have a TV.

What hooked me on our women is what I now brag to all my Left Coast friends: In CT, we grow strong women!

Geno and our women prove that game after game, year after year.

I could not be prouder to be a fan and of the State of CT!
 
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1975 in my heart. 2006 on the nice diploma paper. Long, but not uninteresting story.

South Campus. Buckley Hall-South Tower. People knocked on our 6th floor corner room door to politely ask if they could look out our window across campus . Everybody called it “best view” on campus. What times. Sadly, I wasted too much opportunity at that time. Late bloomer. But all Storrs memories are happy.
 
I'm a UCONN alum, but was only in Storrs for two years. I transferred from American University. We were still only a Yankee Conference power during my time.

We went to the 1976 NCAA Sweet 16 with a team that featured Tony Hanson, Joey Whelton, Al Weston, and John Thomas from Bogalusa, LA. I believe John still lives in CT to this day. Jeff Carr and I believe Randy LaVigne were freshmen on that team. Also Jim Abromaitis, I think. Abro later served on the Board of Trustees, I believe. That may have been Dee Rowe's next to last season coaching the team. We attended the Sweet 16 in Greensboro, NC. It was Rutgers, VMI, DePaul and us. We lost to Rutgers something like 92-79. They had Phil Sellers and Eddie Jordan. They went undefeated that season until they lost in the semis of the Final Four. Indiana went totally undefeated and won the title that year...last team to go undefeated on the men's side. We sat right behind the UCONN bench in Greensboro. Rutgers beat VMI to advance to the Final Four. DePaul was still a few years away from making the Final Four during the Mark Aguirre era, but Dave Corzine was on that DePaul team.

UCONN's first women's BB team played in 1975. I think they finished 2-8. Sadly, neither myself or anybody I knew on campus, male or female, had any idea we had an official women's intercollegiate team. Let's just say it was not highly publicized or promoted. If I had known I might have checked out a few of their games. I attended a HS which had a great women's BB team. I had friends on the team and attended a lot of their games.
 
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From the Standards:
“Please note that when used in cases other than the wordmark, the word UConn should simply be written as ‘UConn’ not ‘UCONN’. Likewise, the words UConn Health should simply be written as ‘UConn Health’ not ‘UCONN Health’ or ‘UCONN HEALTH."

A UConn student goes to UCONN (the trademark).
 
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GoUconn7961 said:
I went to two years - partied too hard and got pulled out. I finished my BA twelve years later at Western in Danbury... But I'm a Husky at heart...
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I went the other way. Started in 1970 at Western. Flunked out (almost deliberately) in spring 1971 at Western. Had a wake up call and headed to Northwestern CC in Winsted to repair the damage. Transferred to Storrs in Spring ‘73. The party atmosphere on campuses in the early 70s was huge and if you didn’t have the right degree of self-discipline and guidance it was so easy to get lost. Didn’t officially get my BA until a point in life when it wasn’t really pertinent to my career stuff. But the satisfaction was invaluable and was in line with my first exposure to UConn basketball during the last season of Hugh Greer.
 
Addendum: Dopey here forgot that in addition to a daughter who graduated out of Storrs I have 2 other daughters wo got advanced degrees at WestConn. Also seems to be required in the thread to say where you did go to school: Cornell AB, Harvard JD. When I was at Cornell we had Gary Wood as a quarterback for a time; Pete Gogolak as a kicker - first soccer style kicker in NFL and, my favorite, Ken Dryden as a hockey goalie.
 
Intpseeker said:
From the Standards:
“Please note that when used in cases other than the wordmark, the word UConn should simply be written as ‘UConn’ not ‘UCONN’. Likewise, the words UConn Health should simply be written as ‘UConn Health’ not ‘UCONN Health’ or ‘UCONN HEALTH."

A UConn student goes to UCONN (the trademark).
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Not sure if I know what this means. Not sure if I want to know.:(
 
dogged1 said:
Not sure if I know what this means. Not sure if I want to know.:(
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I'm guessing that Intpseeker's reference to "the Standards" is about the university's IP (Intellectual Property) law guidelines. If UCONN, all caps, is a trademark, it should be written with a superscript TM, or, if registered, a superscript R in a circle. Thus, UCONN™ or UCONN®. If the university doesn't
defend and protect the use of the trademark, it may eventually lose rights to that asset.

Bet you still don't want to know.
 
Sifaka said:
I'm guessing that Intpseeker's reference to "the Standards" is about the university's IP (Intellectual Property) law guidelines. If UCONN, all caps, is a trademark, it should be written with a superscript TM, or, if registered, a superscript R in a circle. Thus, UCONN™ or UCONN®. If the university doesn't
defend and protect the use of the trademark, it may eventually lose rights to that asset.

Bet you still don't want to know.
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I guess I should Xerox this so I have a hard copy.
 
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Connecticut native. Undergrad at Wesleyan University, Class of '82.
Postgrad: got my MD degree from UCONN in 1987.
 
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