"If any one thread runs through the UVM story, it is the continual belief that higher education should be pre-occupied with the progress of mankind."
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"Newcomen Society Honors UVM at Burlington Luncheon". The Rutland Daily Herald. September 14, 1956. p. 11.
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Carl Borgmann
Carl Williams Borgmann (June 3, 1905 – November 29, 1998) was an American chemical engineer, academic administrator at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Nebraska, president of the University of Vermont (UVM), and director of science and engineering for the Ford Foundation.
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