A former Vermont governor’s estate is suing Middlebury College for removing the family name from the campus chapel because he advocated for the sterilization of “degenerates and defectives”
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/vermont-college-sued-after-removing-former-governors-name-from-chapel-944507fbEstate of Gov. John Mead, who had supported sterilizing ‘degenerates,’ sues the school for allegedly breaching a contractMiddlebury College said that having former Gov. John Mead’s name on a prominent campus building ‘is not consistent with what Middlebury stands for in the 21st century.
A 79-page complaint filed in Vermont Superior Court alleges the school breached its contract with the estate of Gov. John Mead in 2021 when it removed the Mead name, which was a precondition of the money gifted to the school to build the chapel. The building sits atop the highest hill on the centuries-old campus.
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