When President
Joe Biden s administration announced last week that it would drop U.S. opposition to generic drug makers in developing countries getting recipes for COVID-19 vaccines, the change in policy resonated loudly in Vermont. It drew praise from Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Our vaccination efforts here at home will only be successful if vaccination efforts in the developing world happen simultaneously, he said in a statement. Supporting this [patent-protection] waiver, and putting people over profits, will help us to do that by speeding up the production and availability of vaccines. But at least one Vermonter was grumpy:
Howard Dean.
A Life: M. Dickey Drysdale – 1944-2021; ‘The most interesting man’
Dick Drysdale, left, former owner of The Herald of Randolph, left, talks with his successor Tim Calabro about coordinating delivery drivers on press day, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Calabro, a photographer who began working at the paper in 2000, purchased The Herald from Drysdale in June. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
After 43 years at the Herald of Randolph, M. Dickey Drysdale handed over ownership of the newspaper to Tim Calabro, of Randolph, Vt., in 2015. Drysdale s father John Drysdale owned the paper before him from 1945 to 1971. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Maurice Dickey Drysdale, 76, editor/publisher emeritus of the
White River Valley Herald, died early Wednesday morning, April 28, 2021, in his home on Labounty Road in Randolph, Vt.
He was born on November 10, 1944, in Concord, Mass., to John and Eleanor Drysdale. Six months later, the Drysdales moved to Randolph, Vt., where John purchased the White River Valley Herald. He was its editor/publisher for the next 30 years.
Dickey graduated from Randolph Union High School in 1962 and Harvard University in 1966. He worked at the
Springfield (Mass.)
Union newspaper from 1966 to 1969 and earned his master s in public administration from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971. He then returned home to Randolph to take the reins from his father at the