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Orwell man created the TelePromTer ORWELL—Richard Bolivar Ullom, age 72, died March 30, 2010, at his home in Orwell. Ullom was born in Dover, Ohio on July 24, 1937. He was the son of Claude and Deretha (Bolivar) Ullom. He moved to Connecticut in 1950. He worked as a draftsman and tool designer at Dura Plastics and later with Warren Condit Manufacturing Company. He designed and manufactured the Diamond Lights at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Ullom, with Warren Condit, were best known as the designors, builders and assemblers of the world’s first TelePromTers that were used in television broadcasting before the computer age. He and his wife owned and operated Chipman Point Marina in Orwell since 1994. He enjoyed sailing, camping and animals, especially wildlife. A memorial service “In Celebration of his Life” is being planned towards the end of May, 2010. A date and time will be announced later. Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made, in his memory, for the benefit of The Volunteers at Porter Hospital, 115 Porter Drive, Middlebury 05753. Arrangements are under the direction of the Miller and Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon.
Portraits of a medical oddity By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com
Richard Bolivar Ullom
The face of Phineas Gage, the most famous medical case of the 19th century. This daguerreotype is owned by Jack and Beverly Wilgus. A second Gage daguerreotype was made public just a few weeks ago.
CAVENDISH—In 1848, Phineas Gage, a resident of Cavendish Village near Ludlow, made medical history. Within a few days, Gage went from being a promising railroad construction foreman to the focus of attention in the medical world. Now, two photographs, dating to the early 1850s, have been found; they are the first to show the face of the famous Vermonter—America’s most talked about medical oddity of the pre-Civil War era. The recently uncovered daguerreotypes show Phineas Gage as he looked shortly after the construction accident that changed his life until his death in 1860. The unique daguerreotypes are the only known surviving image of the famous man other than a plaster death mask. The first image was uncovered a few years ago by a New Jersey couple; it was brought to the attention of the Harvard University Center for the History of Medicine and Smithsonian Institution only in late 2009. As a respected constructed foreman, the 25-year-old Gage worked up and down the lines of the Rutland & Burlington Railroad—from south of Rutland and Ludlow, north to Middlebury and Burlington, and beyond. Always popular with the local girls, Gage cut a handsome profile in the bustling village of Cavendish. But on Sept. 13, 1848, a freakish event would forever alter Phineas Gage—for the worse. On that late summer day, Gage’s crew was blasting rock to make way for a new rail cut. The athletic foreman used a harpoon-like iron rod, 43 inches long by 1.25 inches wide, to tamp explosive powder into a pre-drilled hole in the rock. It’s unclear what caused the initial spark that set off a premature explosion detonating the powder. The tamping rod, propelled at a speed more than 120 miles per hour, rocketed
Photo courtesy Smithsonian
See GAGE, page 9
Middlebury students raise funds for Haiti By Lou Varricchio
newmarketpress@denpubs.com MIDDLEBURY—The students and faculty of St. Mary’s School in downtown Middlebury pitched in recently to help raise funds for Haitian earthquake victims. Teacher Emily Stark first proposed the idea; she planned it in conjunction with her former
Roman Catholic parish church, St. Francis Xavier, located in Dyersville, Iowa. Taking her teacher ’s lead, St. Mary student Andrea Boe, a member of the parochial school’s newspaper club, suggested a bake sale as a means to generate in-school funds for the victims. The sale was planned to be
See HAITI, page 10
Pictured at right: St. Mary’s Catholic School third graders and teacher Emily Stark joined a schoolwide effort to raise funds for earthquake victims in Haiti last month. Members of the school’s newspaper club, under the guidance of teacher Megan Baker, coordinated an in-house bake sale; the sale generated much of the money for the effort. Students of the school have a positive reputation for helping people in need, near and far.
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