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Would you want to attend a school named "Dummer"?(Snapshots)

The New American

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"William Dummer, in his will, left us this land ... and it's not fair to take his name out." Senior student Julie O'Shaughnessy doesn't like the idea of deleting the name of the school's founder and original benefactor, ...

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