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A Family's Well-Worn Gown.

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  • المؤلفون: Troop, Don
  • المصدر:
    Chronicle of Higher Education. 5/19/2006, Vol. 52 Issue 37, p4-5. 2p.
  • معلومة اضافية
    • الموضوع:
      Heirlooms; Academic costume; Family traditions; Family history (Sociology); Legacies; Ancestors; Genealogy; Descent (Kinship); Inheritance & succession
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      The article features the heirloom graduation gown of the Lee clan, which came from Bertha Cottrell Lee, a graduate from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Over the years, 20 of Bertha's descendants have worn the gown. It has been handed down from daughter to daughter, with the names and institutions of each graduate written or sewn into the lining of the gown. The gown is handled with such care that it is personally delivered by family members. It all started in 1934 when one of Bertha's family member needed a gown, and with the year of depression, had no money to buy for that sort of thing and decided to wore the gown, and the tradition was born.