This article was written By Quinn Olney from the 2021 Journalism class. Tom Tailor is an article written as part of the 50@U32 collection. In 2021, U32 is celebrating 50 years of education and dedication to students. To honor the…
Category: In Our Past
Chani Waterhouse- Chronicle Roots
Chani Waterhouse, U-32 High School Class of 1988, was a co-editor and leader of the U-32 Chronicle for both her Junior and Senior years. Her article about students successfully pressuring colleges to divest from South Africa in the midst of…
50@U-32: The Bradley Twins in Finland
This piece is part of the 50@U32 series celebrating and remembering old times till now. In the February of 1990, Markus and Timo Bradley, 16 year old twins from Calais, packed their bags and headed to the airport with…
50@U-32 Quiz : Celebrating its Origin
U-32 opened in 1971. After 50 years, the school (and its newspaper) are still thriving. There are a number of humorous memorable moments from the school’s past. Ever wonder where U-32 came from and what the student attitude used to…
George Schmitt: Professionally Amateur, and Dead
On September 2nd, 1913, a crowd of around 500 spectators assembled on the fields of the Rutland Fair to watch George Schmitt fly in his Baldwin Red Devil biplane. (10) The machine, little more than a few metal rods…
Her Majesty Packs a Pistol: A Vermont Prohibition Story
Queen Lil sat in Richford’s temporary courtroom on June 21st, 1925 before a jury and state’s attorney H.O. Leavens, for keeping a disorderly house. She paid a one hundred dollar fine for running the tremendously illegal “Palace of Sin” and…
Not Your Average “Gung Ho” Suffragette
This is the first piece in a series about what our community was like a century ago. January 4th, 1921, was a cold, rainy day. (7) A line of men filed into the Vermont Statehouse for the 26th biennial…
The Brugman Brothers: Models of Success
In 1902, Manistee Michigan received its first ever car, built by my great, great uncles, Otto and Henry Brugman (10). When the family first came over to the United States from Germany in 1873, they were relatively poor, living in…