[VOA]

A few years ago, I saw an article from the Northeast about some graduate student who'd
stumbled across a bunch of old, forgotten eugenics records during her research.
I may be confused, but I think the records were from that progressive state...Vermont.

Whether I got the state correct, it was interesting because the student did
track down some of the surviving victims of this system...but the most interesting
comment was about how
the article included a comment from a citizen who observed that one of the victims
had some close relative who'd produced three generations of low-IQ criminals...

I've got to check out this book to see if it discusses The Pioneer Fund, which I heard
mentioned as a funding device for eugenics supported (in part) by FDR.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Yes, it was Vermont - Some relatives of my ancestors were forcibly sterilized...

[Desdemona]

I used to work in a major medical school library. There were serials on eugenics, all of which stopped publishing in the 40's. Hmmm....

There was a lot of medical material at the time, too. It was a hot topic.