Talk:Gamaliel Painter

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Did you know... that graduates of Middlebury College receive a replica of a cane owned by Gamaliel Painter (pictured)?

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Middlebury College Painter Cane, c1930[edit]

The cane of my late mother, Lucy G. Hager, then of Vergennes, VT, daughter of the Congregational Minister, Class of 1930, MC, measures exactly one yard in length. It was found and given to me, her one son, 1946-, by Wesley Eldred of South Burlington, VT, formerly Head Library Assistant at UVM Library. The cloth cord was rotten and removed, as was the Sterling Silver Handle and the Class of 1930 band, for polishing, and later re-gluing and band attaching by small nail. The wood appears to be a dark brown hardwood, tapered down to the shielded tip...

Lucy went on to Simmons College in Boston for Librarian Training, and worked at Harvard Libraries through WW-II, after which she married MIT Radiation Lab (Radar) civilian scientist veteran (OSRD) Franklin A. Bidwell in 1946, and Doug Bidwell, I, was born...

AA, Graceland College, 1966 BA, U Mass, Amherst, 1968 MSLS, U of Illinois, 1973

Veteran, USAF Career NCO, 1968-1988 (Vietnam Era, Cold War Era, Veteran) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.242.141.31 (talk) 13:40, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]