How Middlebury College Landed in Court Over the Cancellation of a Former Governor of Vermont and His Gift of a Chapel

The heirs of John Mead are fighting back after the name of the Mead family is chiseled off the iconic architecture that has stood as a symbol of the faith and ideas that once animated the campus.

Kenneth James Burchfiel III via Wikimedia Commons
The building formerly known as Mead Chapel on the Middlebury Campus. Kenneth James Burchfiel III via Wikimedia Commons

Last year I related in the Sun how I was skipping my 50th reunion at Middlebury College because of an indignity visited upon one of my predecessors as governor of Vermont. Now I’ve taken the College to court, in an effort to right the wrong done to Governor John Mead.

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