Academy will stop using 'Dummer' name

BOSTON (AP) -- Jokes about Governor Dummer Academy, the nation's oldest independent boarding school, are about to become history.
The Newbury, Mass., school's board of trustees voted Saturday to shed "Dummer" and change the name to The Governor's Academy.
Governor Dummer Academy will remain the elite institution's legal name, but it will begin doing business under the new name July 1, 2006, the start of the new fiscal year.
To appease critics, trustees agreed to include the words "Established in 1763 by Governor Wm. Dummer" on the school's printed name and seal.
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