By Hugo Kollmer, Class of 1958; Forestry
The two years I spent at Paul Smith’s were perhaps the best of my life. Among the many wonderful memories I have are from experiences serving others, including battling a forest fire on McKenzie Mountain, participating in the search for an elderly lady who became lost in an Onchiota marsh, cutting and splitting firewood for a elderly lady in Saranac Lake, being part of the small crew who dug a well for college sawmill manager Howard Welch and helping to build a fish barrier dam at the outlet from Black Pond.
TF Forestry Class of 1958
Glenn Grossmann with injured hawk he was rehabilitating
Alfred “Al” Mossey with beaver he trapped
John Deming and Prof. Gould Hoyt in the Sugar House
Two unidentified students on a snowbank in front of the Dining Hall
Terminal Forestry students, Francis Mose (wearing hat) and Prince transferring sap to the Sugar House
White Pine Camp’s caretaker Francis Mose
l.to r. Stanley “Dick” Rohrback, Jack Hamilton, Peter “Peter Barnard” and unidentified classmate playing cards
Osgood Pond, looking toward its mouth
The Sugar House amid the Sugar Bush
Henry “Hank” Staby, Stanley “Dick”Rohrbach and Paul Doornbos
Fantastic memories, Snakepit, sawmill, White pine, 18 legal drinking age, Dew drop inn. making men out of boys.. Ready to do it all over again. Stan (Dick) Rohrbach.