Love Pays Dividends

Marrying Love to Philanthropy

Tens of thousands of couples have met while students at UConn.

In their lifetimes together after graduation, these couples often decide to give back to support UConn, as a measure of thanks for bringing them together in the first place, to honor each other or to recall those first days of their relationship.

The following stories show the power of love: for each other, and for the University; check back soon for even more!

Do you have your own UConn love story, especially one that relates to giving back to UConn? Tell us about it by e-mail, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube!

 

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A Love Discovered Through Academics, and Nurtured at UConn They were born 11 years apart on the same day—March 7—and were passionate about gardening and travel. From the moment they met at what was then the Connecticut Agricultural College, Lydia ‘Ann’ Green and Harold Schwenk Sr. shared chemistry—in the classroom and in love. MORE

A Chance Meeting, a Happy Marriage, a Lasting Legacy Tom Juros wanted to memorialize his beloved wife in the most compelling way possible. He pledged a gift to create two scholarships at UConn, in the Neag School of Education and the School of Engineering. MORE

Gift in Memory of Wife Ensures a Legacy of Caring In a long career at UConn as a professor of art and the director of the William Benton Museum of Art, Salvatore Scalora '71 has seen the power of philanthropy.  MORE

A Momentary Meeting of the Minds Becomes a Lifelong Conversation A love of languages brought William Robinson and Marlene Zieky together one evening at a UConn party. Through college, careers and children, that appreciation has led them to support the Homer Babbidge Library. MORE

A Singles Match that Ended in Love They met when one of them was late for the other’s seminar. Friendship, tennis, love, and devoted support for the UConn School of Business ensued. MORE

Romance Survived War, a Moon Landing and a Discovery about Family Jeanne Hinman, her head buried in a book, was walking up the steps to the Wilbur Cross Library in the fall of 1941 when she ran right into Ray Bartman.. MORE

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