I saw Jane Sanders on tv this morning and I had a bit of an epiphany.

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63. Getting to Know Jane Sanders, Wife of Bernie

Wikipedia entry on Jane Sanders Very bare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_O%27Meara_Sanders

Getting to Know Jane Sanders, Wife of Bernie
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-12/getting-to-know-jane-sanders-wife-of-bernie


JUST JANE: ACTIVIST ROOTS PULL SANDERS HOME TO GODDARD COLLEGE
http://quadrant4.org/goddard/960831x.html


8/10/96, Times Argus
GODDARD PRESIDENT TO RESIGN
http://quadrant4.org/goddard/960810x.html

PLAINFIELD - After withstanding bitter criticism for months, Richard E. Greene has apparently decided to resign as the president of Goddard College.

Although officials at Goddard won't confirm or deny Greene's plans to resign, informed sources say he will officially step down as the college's president, possibly as early as next week.

Jane Sanders, the chairwoman of Goddard's board of trustees refused to comment on rumors that Greene had resigned, or was planning to resign.

"I can't say anything," Sanders said Friday. "I can't comment on that, there is nothing really to report. Richard Greene is still president of the college."

Greene himself could not be reached for comment. But other members of the Goddard community say Greene decided to resign after losing some support from the trustees.

"He still had a majority, but he lost the support of a few. I guess he just decided he couldn't take it anymore," a well-placed official at Goddard said.


"He still had a majority, but he lost the support of a few. I guess he just decided he couldn't take it anymore." -- A well-placed official at Goddard


Sources say Greene is involved in discussions with the trustees over the buy-out of his contract.

Greene has been under fire from faculty, staff, and students at the college almost since the day he was picked by the board to become Goddard's president in July 1994.

Protests against Greene intensified this spring after Peter Burns, Goddard's popular admissions director resigned, prompting a demonstration on campus that some said nearly turned violent.

Greene's critics accused of him threatening the democratic principles Goddard was originally founded on, and failing to run Goddard in a collaborative and open manner.

Goddard's faculty issued a nearly unanimous vote of no confidence in Greene and called on him to resign in mid-April.

Greene refused and in early May the trustees issued a statement strongly backing his administration.

A couple of weeks later, Greene fired 16 employees, including three members of the union's organizing committee.

That led to a showdown with the trustees at a meeting in June, when the board once again refused to ask for Greene's resignation.

As a compromise, the board agreed to consider a proposal to recognize the union and create a new administrative position to oversee daily operations at the college.

But just as it appeared that Greene had dodged one more bullet, he lost the support of some trustees, and decided he had finally had enough.