This anniversary edition was quite an a job for the Enterprise back in 1966 when we were then located at 76 Main Street (now Origins Coffee Emporium) using hot type, with each page cast in lead; and boy, were those pages heavy; they were clamped onto a huge rotary press located three floors down. We could only print in four page increments because that is the way the press was constructed. When I first glanced at this edition, I thought, how could that editor not put a dateline on each page…then I remembered, that editor was me.

The Enterprise was mostly only eight pages then; for example, when it was a heavy advertising day we could not go to 10 pages, we had to go to 12. Now, we probably only needed two extra pages for the additional ads so the other two pages would be “boiler plate”; maybe a page of women’s fashion and a picture page created by the National Enterprise Association … kept as backup for that purpose.

That anniversary edition had five full picture pages and more than 100 advertisers and dozens of individual photos. If the college does not have a copy of this history treasure then I will be happy to bring it out to my friend Lydia Wright at the college’s huge, magnificent library.

So here are snippets from that newspaper – I wish I could re-publish the entire edition …

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‘Homesick’ Recess

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“On October 7 of this year the Paul Smith’s week-long recess begins. This vacation for years, was termed the ‘homesick’ recess, a Paul Smith’s innovation adopted later by some other colleges with the realization that students do tend to suffer attacks of nostalgia for the folks back home as they are becoming acclimated to their new surroundings, an altogether new life to them.”

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Different occupations for graduates

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“Of greatest importance in the activities of the college is the product it produces. The enrollment being restricted to three programs might denote a very limited range of jobs for the graduates. A sampling of the professional activities of the graduates will show that there is a great diversification in their occupations.

“Katherine Knight, ’55, Saranac Lake, Instructor at the School of Nursing, Columbia University.

“Dr. Edmund McLane, ’53, Lake Placid, Orthodontist in Plattsburgh.

“Donald Mattimore, heavyweight wrestler at P.S.C., Mechanical Engineer for State of Wisconsin.

“Robert McKillip, ’52, Saranac Lake, was on the faculty at Paul Smith’s College, now with Foods Operation, Inc.

“John Buckley, ’48, Saranac Lake, Aerospace Technician National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

“John Engelton, ’48, Saranac Lake, Faculty, Syracuse University School of Forestry.

“Paul Benoit, ’61, Loon Lake, Assistant Superintendent of Law Enforcement, State Conservation Department. Paul’s daughter, Judy. Graduated from PSC with the class of ’60.

“Charles LaForge, ’50, President of Wayfarer Inns.

“Jerry Henderson, ’61, Malone, Faculty University of Maine.

“Fred Herbert, ’62, Owner Lakeside Motel, Saranac Lake.

“Ronald Butler, ’56, Owner of Howard Johnson’s Restaurant, Lake Placid.

“Dr. Robert Cromie, ’49, Saranac Lake, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, St. Lawrence University.

“Joseph Ryan, ’48, Chateaugay, Public Defender, Franklin County.

“Gilbert N. O. Emodi, ’64, Assistant Conservator of Forest, Nigeria, West Africa.

“Jim Zimbo, ’60, Forster, U.S. Military Academy, West Point.

“Aaron Drutz, ’51, Saranac Lake, Mathematician for Systems Analysis.” [List edited for space]

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Fighting forest fires

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“The New York State Conservation Department has called upon Paul Smith’s College students more than 100 times to help battle forest fires.

“In fact, the college has virtually become a fire-fighting center for this region. Every year, Robert Brown, a former PSC student, Harold Martin and Merchant Hutchins of the Conservation Department spend a week at the campus instructing students in the fire-fighting procedure and the use of the equipment.

“In the fall of 1956, William Rutherford and Stephen Simpkins, led a band of 25 students in helping to fight a blaze on little McKenzie mountain. In May 1957 flames devoured 50 acres at Merrillsville. Fifty students worked round-the-clock shifts patrolling the area.”

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Hotel students visit Lake Placid Club

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“Lake Placid Club went collegiate on Nov. 21, 1951 when 50 Paul Smith’s hotel students took part in the resort’s first student management day. The event was so successful that it has become an annual one.

“The students were taken on a tour of the club’s facilities, after which they were entertained at a luncheon. In the afternoon students were assigned to work in the various departments.

“On several occasions Lake Placid Club has presented the college with monetary gifts which have been used for educational purposes. The gifts have been in appreciation of the cooperation of the college and its hotel students.’

[At the invitation of the late Tim Sullivan, then on the faculty of PSC, I gave a talk to a class of hotel students when I was manager of the Lake Placid Club.]

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Paul Smith’s trivia

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Hotel and Culinary students demonstrated to the Forestry Students how to split a match with a clever; Paul Smith’s basketball team was the first athletic group to represent the college in intercollegiate competition, evolving into one of the finest in its class in the nation; There was a coal shortage one winter when several classrooms and dorms were closed with students doubling up in sleeping quarters but the college quickly converted an old boiler into a wood burner and students and hired workers worked in shifts cutting wood to keep the boiler going; the 1949 College Board of Trustees included Saranac Lake residents, John R. Freer, Charles Cowan and Howard Littell; Laurence Slaughter of Saranac Inn and Joseph Donovan of Tupper Lake; Dr. Vladimir Dimitroff was the first faculty member to retire from Paul Smith’s College. He retired in June 1955 because of heart trouble and died in September; and Dr. Ira P. Baumgartner retired from the Paul Smith’s faculty in June 1966. Dr. Baumgartner was professor of Philosophy and Psychology. He received his B.A. at the University of Indiana, his M.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He joined the faculty in 1954.