Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer
This is an interesting little story from just across the river from us. A small college in Vermont with a long history and solid reputation got caught up in the wokening. In 2021 someone made a decision to deplatform one of its most successful alumnus, former Vermont Governor Mead.
Now another former governor has stood up and said, Enough.
What the college likely thought would be an easy win- strip the name of the benefactor from the building, but keep the monetary value and move on to progressive utopia with accolades. What they failed to understand was that colleges in America are almost entirely funded, not so much by tuition, but endowments. When those graduates who contribute selflessly in order to support their alma maters discover that at some point they will be vilified, reviled and tossed to the curb but won’t receive a refund in the exchange, the cash spigot will twist further left than the administration.
Here’s to those who stand up to the gynarchy.
Former Gov. Douglas sues Middlebury College over chapel name
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (WCAX) – Former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas is suing Middlebury College for removing the ‘Mead Memorial Chapel’ sign from the institution’s historic and iconic structure.
Now called the Middlebury Chapel, the more than century-old marble building stands on the campus’s highest point and often serves as the recognizable backdrop to its branding, marketing, and merchandising.
Former Gov. John Mead, who served from 1910 to 1912, paid to construct the meeting house and place of worship at his alma mater in 1914, under the condition it bear the name Mead in honor of his ancestors.
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