Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lack of transportation funds has forced the varsity ski team to cancel a Christmas vacation training trip to Aspen, Colorado, Ski coach Graham Taylor, Jr. '49 will instead take the team to Putney, Vermont, where the squad will train for four days in preparation for its first meet on December...
...Class of 1925 winners are: Richard T, Duback '53 of Cleveland and Kirkland House, John L. Lewis '52 of Houston, Texas and Dunster House, Robert C. Mello '53 of Rutland, Vermont, and Winthrop House, and Robert W. Tolf '51 of Park Ridge, Illinois, and Winthrop House...
...first time, debaters last season went to the Regional Tournament at Wesleyan and won against 16 other teams. Vermont came in second, although it beat the Crimson in the National Intercollegiates at West Point. The Debate Council also won the District Eight Tournament...
Died. Robert Holbrook Smith ("Dr. Bob"), 71, Vermont-born Ohio doctor and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous; after long illness; in Akron. In 1935 Smith met a visiting Manhattan stockbroker, "Bill W.," in Akron. Both alcoholics, they decided that the only hope lay in banding together, formed A.A., substituted confessions, coffee & doughnuts, group meetings and trust in a "higher power" for the escapes alcohol had provided. A.A. now has more than 110,000 members in the U.S. and abroad, is credited with keeping about half of them from the bottle...
Damage to some New England colleges was great. Vermont state police estimated that the cost of the storm to Middlebury College would exceed $100,000. Winds blew the roof off the University of Vermont's gym and a Bowdoin College dormitory...