during the Battle of the Bulge. , Gray was also chairman of the boards of both Mott Corporation and SourceOne. Gray was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2003. Gray also served on the Board of Trustees at Sea Research Foundation (parent company of Mystic Aquarium) from 1997 until his death. Harry Gray died on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at the age of 89 at Hartford Hospital (in the city that is both Connecticut's capital city and UTC's headquarters' location). According to Stephen Miller's remembrance article published in the Wall Street Journal two days later, he was "a merger artist who resented making just one deal at a time." Gray was both admired and feared as "The Grand Acquisitor". In the mid-1970s, his prime deal-making days as CEO and chairman of United Technologies Corp., Gray had maintained a list of the 50 companies he sought to acquire. Gray was always preoccupied with holding more companies. But he was equally intent on controlling what he had. Passing the torch at the mandatory retirement age of 65 was something he could not abide. "In this system, we don't need a No. 2 man," he once told Business Week. References Appointment of Harry Jack Gray as a Member of the President's Commission on Executive Exchange at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library External links 1919 births 2009 deaths American technology chief executives University of Illinois alumni University of Hartford people Recipients of the Silver Star