Governor Shumlin lauded her initiative and pluck in his remarks. Governor Shumlin with St Johnsbury Academy freshman Angela Kubicke at UVM Friday. A few Vermonters, mistaking the motto for Spanish, voiced their disapproval in strong terms of what they saw as un-American immigrant-coddling.The story caught the attention of the national media, the critics were roundly ridiculed, order was restored and Kubicke emerged as a kind of hero and poster child for the virtues of education. Some months later, after a local TV station posted the motto on its website and asked for comments, all heck broke loose. She submitted it to her state senator, Joe Benning, who began the process of making it law. Kubicke had penned the motto - Stella quarta decima fulgeat (May the fourteenth star shine bright) – innocently enough last year when she was a student at the Riverside School in Lyndonville. They were attracted by a truly momentous development: Governor Peter Shumlin made an appearance at noon to sign into law Vermont’s new Latin motto, with its author, ninth grader Angela Kubicke, at his side. The toga-clad kids were there acting goofy and competing as usual, but so was a small army of Vermont’s finest print and broadcast journalists. With close to a thousand Vermont middle and high school kids donning togas, acting out skits in Latin and competing in Scholars-Bowl-like competitions, UVM’s annual Latin Day is usually good for a story or two in the Vermont media.īut the 2015 edition, which took place Friday, was different. The Latin reference from the governor mimics Julius Caesar who said, "Veni, vidi, vici," meaning I came, I saw, I conquered in Shumlin's case it means: I came, I saw, I signed. ![]() The motto joins Vermont’s English motto, “Freedom and Unity.” The idea for an official Latin motto came from St Johnsbury Academy freshman Angela Kubicke, who attended the signing, as did the bill’s sponsor Senator Joe Benning (R-Caledonia). The motto, “Stella quarta decima fulgeat,” meaning “May the fourteenth star shine bright,” is a reference to Vermont’s status as the fourteenth state to join the United States. ![]() ![]() Signati,” Governor Peter Shumlin said Friday at the University of Vermont as he signed into law S2, a bill that gives Vermont an official Latin motto.
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