In Memoriam

David Abraham, 77, of Scotland, Conn., a retired English professor, on April 1.

Rudy Favretti, 90, of Mansfield, Conn., the founder of UConn’s landscape architecture program, on April 13.

Carole Neag, 80, of Goshen, Conn., on April 16, who along with her late husband Ray created an endowment to establish both the Neag Chair in Gifted and Talented Education and the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development. In 1999, they gave what was at the time the largest gift UConn had ever received, which established the Ray Neag School of Education Endowment Fund. The school was renamed in his honor. They also established the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at UConn Health in 2004 and supported numerous other programs in Farmington, including the Carole and Ray Neag Medical Innovation Center at UConn’s School of Medicine.  In 2019, Carole established The Neag Foundation. The Foundation’s most recent gift was a major donation to the UConn School of Medicine to establish the Carole and Ray Neag Innovation Professorship, which supports transformational research, and the Carole and Ray Neag Innovative Research Awards.