No Joke -- DUMMER Expelled From School

(From The USA Today)

The board of trustees at the GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY in Newbury, Massachusetts, have voted to shed "DUMMER" -- and the jokes it drew -- from the institution's name.

The legal name won't change, but the school will begin doing business as THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY on July 1st.

"Reseach has shown that the current name has been an impediment," Communications Director JUDITH KLEIN said.

WILLIAM DUMMER was an acting governor of Massachusetts in the late 1720s.