a median income of $34,766 versus $23,229 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $9,947. About 10.0% of families and 33.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.4% of those under age 18 and 8.2% of those age 65 or over. Standard measures of poverty can be misleading when applied to communities dominated by students, such as Storrs. Access It is near the intersection of U.S. Route 44 and Connecticut Route 32 in Mansfield Depot. Until 1955 inter-city train service was available nine miles to the south in Willimantic on the New Haven Railroad's Nutmeg and unnamed trains between Waterbury, Hartford and Boston. Notable people Regina Barreca, humorist and UConn professor of English literature and feminist theory Audrey P. Beck, college professor and Connecticut state legislator Rivers Cuomo, lead singer/guitarist of the alternative rock band Weezer, grew up in Storrs and attended the local secondary school, E.O. Smith High School Cheo Hodari Coker, television writer and producer for "Luke Cage", "Ray Donovan", and "Southland" Wally Lamb, best-selling author of the books She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True. Both were selected for Oprah's Book Club. Ben Magubane, professor of anthropology and anti-apartheid leader Dan Orlovsky, ESPN college football and NFL analyst, former quarterback for the Detroit Lions Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic and biographer of Dawn Powell Jonathan Pelto, American politician Samuel Pickering, professor at the University of Connecticut, inspiration for the character Mr. Keating in the film Dead Poets Society Dom Sigillo, retired American football player, played for the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions. Charles and Augustus Storrs, brothers, business partners, benefactors and co-founders of the University of Connecticut Peter Tork (ne Peter Halsten Thorkelson), member of The Monkees. He attended E.O. Smith High School; he was class of 1959 and made the class of 2005 commencement speech. Wendy O. Williams, lead singer for the 1970s and 1980s punk rock band the Plasmatics, lived in town from 1991 until her death in 1998 See also WHUS References Census-designated places in Tolland County, Connecticut Mansfield, Connecticut Villages in Connecticut