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About Storrs, Connecticut (CT)
06268 (Mansfield)
Storrs is a part of the town of Mansfield, Connecticut located in eastern Tolland County. It is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of the main campus of the University of Connecticut.
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Notable Residents:
- Notable Residents, past and present
- Tim Page (music critic) (b.1954), Pulitzer Prize winning music critic and biographer of Dawn Powell.
- Rivers Cuomo (b.1970), lead singer/guitarist of the alternative rock band Weezer, grew up in Storrs and attended the local secondary school, E.O. Smith High School.
- Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson, b.1942) of The Monkees attended E.O.Smith; he was class of '59 and made the class of 2005 Commencement speech.
- Wendy O. Williams (1949 - 1998), lead singer for the 1970s and 80s punk rock band the Plasmatics lived in town from 1991 until her death in 1998 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- Samuel Pickering (b. 1949) Professor at the University of Connecticut, inspiration for the character Mr. Keating in the Academy Award-winning film The Dead Poets Society.
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