Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgeville is unique in southern Quebec because its inhabitants never see much of the French-speaking Canadians, who surround them on every side. Georgeville looks much like a Vermont village because its original settlers came from New England, bringing with them their traditions of conservatism, content with slow and steady progress, and scorn for over-indulgence. Their descendents generally have upheld these affections, leaning not toward Vermont, a scant ten or so miles across rocky, easy, moulded hills, but toward English-speaking Canada. In architecture, the village has preserved the colonial tradition introduced by its founder, Moses Copp...
...revised and reconditioned varsity hockey team will open a weekend Vermont schedule tonight when it takes part in dedicating a new ice rink at Norwich College in Northfield...
Shortly after writing his thesis, Financier Meredith got a chance to prove his case. He joined Vermont's staid old (108 years) National Life Insurance Co., pioneered so many fields for investment that National Life has wielded an influence far beyond its $620 million assets. Last week Meredith, now 51, and National Life's executive vice president, got another selling job. He became president of the New England Council, a post previously held by such eminent New Englanders as former Boston Federal Reserve President Laurence F. Whittemore and Senator Ralph E. Flanders. His task: to bind together...
Modern Banking. The job was tailor-made for Meredith. All through his career -assistant professor of economics at Vermont University, Vermont State banking and insurance commissioner-he has been busy improvising modern banking methods for modern days. Joining National Life in 1935 as an investment analyst, he arrived shortly after the New Deal brought out its Federal Housing Administration to spur home building. While other money men cried socialism and hung back, Meredith turned National Life to investing in FHA, by 1946 had 42% of its money in government mortgages...
...perhaps the best measure of Taylor's concern for his students was supplied by a colleague in the history department. "Charles is very fond of a farm he owns up in northern Vermont," the colleague said, "but several times over the past few years he hasn't gone up because of a student problem that was bothering him. There aren't many of us who can resist the lure of a weekend...