75Th Anniversary

1859 The Paul Smith’s Hotel is established by Apollos (Paul) Smith 1906 The famous hotel even features an electric railway 1946 At the bequest of Phelps Smith, Paul Smith’s College is founded 1862 Paul and Lydia Smith’s son Phelps is born 1961 Paul Smith’s College acquires the Hotel Saranac 1952-83 Legendary figures such as Gould Hoyt leave a lasting impact on the college and its students 1997 The state Board of Regents approves Paul Smith’s plan to become a 4-year college 2018 The formation of an Olympic Advisory Council 2011 The college assumes jumpstarts an ongoing operation of the state’s Visitor sports initiative Interpretive Center (VIC) WATERFRONT REAL ESTATE NEAR PAUL SMITH’S COLLEGE ad FORESTMERE PARK SPITFIRE LAKE CAMP $4,250,000 | PAUL SMITH’S $334,000 | PAUL SMITH’S ROBY AND NICK POLITI REAL ESTATE BROKER, OWNERS CONGRATS ON THE 75 YEARS! KIWASSA LODGE $2,900,000 | SARANAC LAKE ADIRONDACKESTATES.COM 2469 MAIN ST. LAKE PLACID, NY 12946 | 518.523.2519 75th anniversary Greetings Smitties! Dalrymple has most recently served as Presidents of PSC president of Columbia College, Mo., Presidents of Paul Smith’s College By Dr. Scott Dalrymple, Paul at which he spearheaded a number of Smith’s College president initiatives including a new strategic plan to help guide the college’s future, Earl C. MacArthur | 1944-45 I am thrilled to celebrate the 75th an innovative and affordable tuition anniversary of Paul Smith’s College program, and key partnerships. He was with you. also involved in securing the college’s first- and second-largest gifts in its Frederick G. Leasure | 1945-48 Like anyone else, the first thing Dr. Scott Dalrymple history. I noticed about the College is its Current President gorgeous setting; there are few Columbia’s Truition program, or Chester L. Buxton | 1948-76 institutions so defined by their blended combination of “truth” and “tuition,” surroundings. I can see why Apollos “Paul” Smith functioned as a transparent pricing notice for picked this very site for his famous Hotel and students enrolling at the Missouri-based institution. Casino in the late 1800s (It was the sort of casino Gray Twombly | 1976 where one sat in the shade rather than played Dalrymple’s educational journey began in blackjack, though I suspect there were some late- undergrad at SUNY Geneseo, followed by three night poker games). graduate degrees earned at the University of Buffalo, including a Ph.D. in English and an MBA. Thomas Stainback | 1976-82 Paul Smith’s College was actually founded by Phelps Smith, who willed his fortune for the establishment “I was a first-generation college student, like so of “Paul Smith’s College of Arts and Sciences” in many students at Paul Smith’s College,” Dalrymple 1937. said. “Education changed everything for me.” Harry Miller | 1982-88 Seventy-five years later, that single philanthropic act While Dalrymple’s resume includes a host has changed the lives of more than 15,000 alumni of academic accolades, it also boasts area and countless others. PSC now offers everything connections—he spent much of his youth H. David Chamberlain | 1988-94 from certificate programs to Master’s degrees on frequenting a family camp in nearby Raquette Lake, its beautiful campus on Lower St. Regis Lake. Few N.Y. His wife, Dr. Tina Dalrymple, is also from other colleges can say they offer everything from upstate N.Y. and a first-generation college student. Arthur (Pete) Linkins | 1994-96 Forestry to Neuroscience. None can boast 14,000 She directs an at-home care agency and together acres in the Adirondacks. they have five adult children, three grandchildren, and as Dalrymple joked, an “ungrateful cat.” I’m particularly proud that many of our students Steven Schneeweiss | 1996-97 are the first in their families to attend college, Continue reading at paulsmiths.edu/news just as my wife Tina and I were. These pioneers will change not only their own lives by attending PSC, but the lives of all future generations of their George Miller | 1997-04 families. That’s a powerful legacy. Tina and I are proud to become Smitties. Here’s to the next 75 years! John W. Mills | 2004-2014 From the PSC news desk, June 3, 2021: Paul Smith’s College has announced the decision Cathy Dove | 2014-20 to appoint Dr. Scott Dalrymple its 12th president, marking the end of a months-long effort by the college’s board of trustees to fill the role during an Jon Strauss | 2020-21 interim presidency carried out by Dr. Jon Strauss. ABOVE: Drs. Scott and Tina Dalrymple. July 2021 3 75th anniversary Hands-on science on research in the natural A long series of additional coring expeditions to Uganda, important aspect of PSC’s sciences, as well. NSF-supported climate Tanzanian, South Africa, programs in the natural By Dr. Curt Stager research projects followed, Peru, and remote corners sciences in addition to our The first grant supported a with Stager’s grants eventually of the Adirondacks. Today ongoing focus on high-quality Paul Smith’s College’s growing summer expedition to Lake totaling more than $1M in research, publication, and teaching and experiential list of prestigious National Victoria, East Africa. Four support of bringing PSC conference participation learning. Science Foundation-funded students accompanied Curt students on similar sediment with students remains an research projects began in Stager to Kenya and Uganda 2000, when one of our faculty to collect sediment cores that was awarded a grant from allowed them to study the NSF’s paleoclimate program effects of climate change and for field research with various human impacts on students. that enormous tropical lake during the last 1000 years. Although hands-on learning The study also led to the has always been a major part publication of several peer- of PSC’s teaching approach, reviewed papers with students the development of the four- as co-authors, another first for year degree programs brought PSC at the time. with it a niche for hands- PSC students in Africa TH 4 Paul Smith’s College • 75 Anniversary The Unkindest Cuts He was working with Creighton Fee and was grumbling up a storm. He didn’t like this, he didn’t By Bob Seidenstein ‘67 like that, the whole registration was a mess (which it wasn’t), and he was just fed up with it. Finally, his Adirondack Daily Enterprise, April 2, 2021 anger overpowered his common sense. In mid-November 1971 I was in the Navy, doing what “I’ve had it,” he said to Creighton. “I’m gonna tell The I did most of the time — taking Morse code — when Old Man just what he can do with his registration.” my friend Frank walked over. Creighton tried to reason with him, but it was futile. “Hey,” he said, “you went to Paul Smith’s College, Finally, he gave up, and the guy stormed off to the right?” “Yeah,” I said. “Why?” “’Cause there’s admin building to give Dr. B. a piece of his mind, something about it in today’s Stars and Stripes.” which he did. His meeting had mixed results. On the “Something in the Stars and Stripes about Paul positive side, he didn’t have to suffer through that The Big Three Smith’s?” I asked, incredulous. “What was it?” “A kid registration anymore. On the negative side, his job was now as long gone as the Battle of Kadesh. cut down a tree,” he said. Dr. B. had three distinct sides to his personality. He was one part Santa Claus, one part Don Corleone and Since three-fourths of PSC students were stump- ies, No poetry, but lots of justice one part Judge Roy Bean. First, he was generous to cutting down trees was nothing newsworthy. But if a fault. He kept the tuition on par with state schools’, And now let’s loop back to the rumor about the guy there was one tree whose felling was newsworthy, it making up the difference in his investments, because who cut down the Leaning Pine going to prison. was The Leaning Pine. And sure enough, that was it. he said no person should be deprived a college As wonderful a bit of karma and poetic justice that Some jackass had chopped it down. Or more exactly, education due to lack of money. Beyond that, if kids would’ve been, it never happened. Not that Dr. B. some jackass had finally chopped it down, since over showed up and couldn’t pay their full bill, Dr. B. had wasn’t furious — of course he was. He wasn’t only the the years other jackasses had tried and failed. In fact, them sign an IOU of sorts (which I’m sure wasn’t president of PSC — in his mind, he was PSC. So to in an effort to keep it propped up, the trunk contained legally binding) and then found jobs for them on him, putting an ax to the LP was the same as going all more cement than wood. campus. Lizzy Borden on him, personally! The Leaning Pine was a 300-year-old, 125-foot- high He also put on an X-mas party for all the area school- But remember how I said campus craziness did not get pine that leaned over the college’s entrance road at a children, and he did it in perfect form. A teacher took broadcasted to the outside world (the outside world 45 degree angle. It was a freak of nature and an area handwritten invitations to each classroom, read off beginning right where Route 86 ended)? The unstated landmark.

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