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GREEN, Gardner Leland

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, pp 205-206

Gardner Leland GREEN, educator, Randolph Center [Orange County, Vermont], was 
born 22 April 1883 at Franklin [Franklin County, Vermont], son of Lucius 
Davis and Cora Bell (CHAMBERIN) GREEN. A graduate of Barton Academy, Latin 
scientific course, valedictorian class of 1902, and a graduate of the 
University of Vermont, agricultural department, B. S. degree, class of 1906; 
was class poet. Began teaching as vice principal of Thetford Academy [Orange 
County]; was principal of Highgate High School [Franklin County] one year; 
Franklin High School one year; and Richford High School [Franklin County] two 
years. In 1910 was elected principal of the State School of Agriculture, 
Randolph Center. Delivered an address before members of the Conference of 
Agricultural Education, at Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1910, on "Coordinations 
Between Garden Work, Nature Work, and Book Work," which has been published; 
joint author of Manual of Agriculture for the Public Schools of Vermont; 
member of the committee which drafted the course of study in agriculture now 
in use in the secondary schools of Vermont. Member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, and Kappa Sigma college 
fraternities; Knights of Pythias. In 1907 Mr. [Gardner Leland] GREEN married 
[Miss?] Flora Gertrude HUMPHREY of Coventry [Orleans County, Vermont]; they 
have one son, Gardner Humphrey.

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