Chapter 7
Cranberry Lake 1964
10/21/2010
wish you were here
link to Cranberry Lake 1964 College of Forestry summer camp (107 photos)
We were about 70 students who took 10 credit hours in Forest Silviculture, Forest Ecology, Dendrology and Forest Surveying and Mensuration for 10 weeks. We were pretty much isolated from civilization at Barber Point about 3 miles by boat across Cranberry Lake. My cabin included 7 students and we all competed at the Wanakena Ranger School in woodsman's competition, at Wanakena where the top photo was taken. Recently communicated with all cabin mates and had a 3-man reunion.
notes on my College of Forestry and Cranberry Lake Biological Station summer camp link photos (view them at fullscreen):
from yearbook:
"Any illusions we might have had about the work to be perfomed in the next ten weeks were dispelled by our fitst surveying class. Wednesday, July 1. Immediately we were expected to be proficient in coiling a 165 ft. length of springy steel tape (the chain), while swatting those infernal no-se-ums (punkies); to sight an Abney on an indistinct point, while crushing more no-see-ums; to keep a neat, accurate fieldbook decorated with drowned and squashed insects as proof of actually being out in the wet woods.
We quickly responded to the challenge by remaining in the field until the warning bell, eating quickly, and returning to the woods to finish the project by flashlight and moonshine. After trekking back to our cabins we began the assigned homework problems and finally crawled nto the bunks by three A.M."
Three girl stumpies attended- one later married a fellow summer camper. D-day was Sep 5, 1964, went home for a brief visit then back to campus at SU.
I have previously contacted some other stumpies from my Co-op in chapter 207.
Class of 1967 ESF
7-1 overview map, Barber Point about 3 miles by water from nearest road & Cranberry Lake village. We did an overnight tenting south and west of camp in the Five Ponds Wilderness Area past Chair Rock falls and toward Dead Creek Flow - Ranger School. The NYSM archives has some interesting summer camp pics. Instructors Edwin Ketchledge, Jack Berglund- Harry Burry who was camp caretaker Al Green?
7-2 view of lake from Bear Mt looking south- Barber Pt is left off camera, Wanakena bay on right in distance past Joe Indian Island, we competed with the Ranger School there in woodsman meet
7-3 Seven frosh assigned to camp - 10 weeks Forest Ecology, General Forestry, Forest Survey and Mensuration 10 credit hours. Camaraderie described by USMC.
7-4 Six of us in front of our bunkbeds ,captured by Dad's Polaroid, usually barefoot to keep the dirt out of cabin and to avoid jungle rot
7-5 Me and Jim Noyes (Jim has passed away I hear) (sharpening his axe, as always) (some students are now required computers, we were required to have axes) wooden bunny rabbit lamp my grandpa made for me on the desk
7-6 Rosettie the clown with cigarettes, he and I were out in canoe toward Bear Mt racing a storm back to camp as he broke a paddle- we made it back to the shoreline a little ways from camp.
7-7 Rosettie making music with (chair he broke?), laundry drying- Shauger threw firecrackers in his bed and set fire to his sleeping bag.
7-8 Shauger taking Novak's axe, used the old wooden pack baskets in the field
7-9 Novak inspecting something with Noyes, fired up the wood stove at night- desk has ink bottle relics, army water canteen, old woodsman insect repellant for the pesky black flies and mosquitos out thru the forest, bogs, & beaver dams, etc
7-10 Hammer returning to camp from the separate bathroom-shower bldg
7-11 rowing wooden canoe into camp, mess hall above (6am wakeup- pack lunch bag for in the field eating), canoe safety training also required- flip canoe swim under, as well as a swimming test. Foot pump whetstone wheel to sharpen axe. Watch sunset from shoreline, transistor radio, "House of the Rising Sun" Eric Burden & Animals. Snuck over to Hoppies bar by canoe at least one Friday night. At 3 weeks allowed to take the ferry boat to town, hitchhike to Star Lake and Tupper Lake gin mills. Barely made it back for the last midnight run back to camp, very few cars- lot of walking under the moonlight. Novak throwing up at the back of the boat.
7-12 Sucker Brook behind camp, caught bass here
7-12B Jim Colquhoun late nighter [later to lose an eye in Infantry Vietnam and become the Bureau of Habitat Protection Chief at NYSDEC who I regularly conferred with for aquatic water quality limits that went into our SPDES permits for industrial and municipal discharges], overnight trek, 20's Gray Ghost diesel transport
7-12T1 Tom White B & W collection: boat
7-12T2 boat
7-12T3 boat ride
7-12T4 White cabin mates
7-12T5 cabins
7-12T6 campus
7-12T7 rear docks
7-12T8 mountain top gang
7-13 Sis Kathy (11) came up with Ma and Dad for a surprise weekend visit (class room cabins) our cabin at edge of woods
7-14 tug of war was one of our requirements, this is a more modern photo
7-15 Noyes awaiting dendro bus field trip next spring on campus (also a member of the SU nordic ski team)
7-16 Noyes on the standing block chop 10x10 yellow pine? (usually took first place) at Penn State campus during our intercollegiate woodsmen meet. Nick Lopokine chopped his foot on our overnight bivouac deep in the woods and was carried out by indian pole litter Dave Tousignant and Carl Jagodski?. Some took advantage of the slippery natural water slide at Chair Rock Creek Falls.
7-17 field survey with staff and compass, learned to "throw the chain", rewind the stiff long metal 165 foot measuring device from a figure 8 into a circle?
7-18 early 1900's Leupold compass
7-19 Abney level Keuffel and Esser 1890, for shooting vertical angles and elevations
7-20 Olmsted pulp throw (The Knothole News used to report on our events, now digital)
7-21 Baumann and I participated in the Indian Pump competition at the Ranger School to run and fill up containers against the clock.
7-22 Olmsted- Farrar cross cut saw, also teamed with Novak and Baumann
7S1 from Shauger slides: Tom White plus 3
7S2 Rosettie, White, Torpey, Shauger
7S3 the Lake
7S4 Swim after a field trip
7S4Z x,Noyes, Hammer,x,x
7S5 our dock
7S6 campus at twilight
7S6a Whiteface Mt sidetrip
7S7 sunset from camp
7S8 Wayne Schmitt surveying with compass staff
7S9 canoeing into Barber Pt
7S10 canoeing out from Barber Pt sunset
7S11 Novak, Szelazkiewicz, Hammer
7S12 Boats haul us to Ranger School meet
7S13 with barge
7S14 barge
7S15 Gray Ghost
7S21 Lawerence Hall construction at SU
7S21 Carl Jagodski at Delaware River
7S19 Jim Noyes horizontal chop at SU fall '65
7S20z Noyes
7S17 Jim Farrar vertical chop
7S17z Farrar
7s18 Farrar
7S18z Farrar
7-30 Jim Farrar as Fountain Forestry partner 2004
7-31 Jim Farrar passed 2005 cancer
7-40 Olmsted survey DOT , visit Hammer in Montana '65
7-41 Olmsted 70's environmental analysis Niagara River
7-42 Olmsted 2002 Niagara River Toxics Plan involvement (Ret '03) Albany, NY
7-51 Second Lt Shauger 68 Air Force pilot C7A Caribou transport, Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, 5yr active
7-50 Shauger with T-33 MS Cornell, Hancock Field, Syracuse, air guard reserves (29yrs ret.) Burlington T-33 trainer , Martin B-57 bomber, F-4 Phantom jet, visited Hammer in Montana '65
7-55 Shauger 2010 Cooperstown, still timber home builder, owned L3B Avonca small plane, now BMW motorcycle
#4600011 Larry Novak collection - with 2 silver salmon, worked as a fisherys biologist for Alaska F&G, in Kodiak 1971 - 1972 after serving as Lieutenant JG Navy Officer USS Tanner off Vietnam
12 spring camp from adjacent mountain, I don't recall the name.
13 gathering at spring camp, I recognize David Stout and some others
14 spring camp field trip
15 spring camp soils experiment of some kind
16 Steve Shauger
17Jim Noyes and Prof. Farnsworth in a drizzle
18 Shauger bossing somebody
19 Cant hook work, I recognize Bruce (Mudhen) Madonna, he had the blackest hair.
20 see # 19?
21 Snow on campus
22 Waiting for the bluebird, field trip
23 "Tolly's Folly" Dorm dedication
24 starting to snow
25 Campus w/ ROTC
26 Campus w/ROTC
27 Prefab life, Novak, army ROTC
28 Prefab life, Shauger, airforce ROTC
29 Graduation day @ Archibald stadium,Novak, Shauger, Paul Ebersbach
30 Dave Tousignant @ Senior Party @ John Marsh's place on either Lake Ontario or Lake Onondaga.
#30 in 2010 Novak fishing Lake Wilson at Wichita, KS Chem-Trol vegetation management
7-75 Hammer 2010 Seattle, WA Thanks, great memories of Cranberry Lake, wonderful. Attached are photos, ocean beach, grandson, Gus, and hair doings, granddaughter, Naomi, update on life at present. Seattle is home 4 years now, being with grandchildren and family, after 30 years raising two children, Laura and Tim, in Hamilton, Montana, retiring from Forest Service in water and air resources, hydrologist, meteorologist. Studies in forestry, hydrology and atmospheric science at University of Montana and Oregona State University and meteorology study at University of Michigan as weather forecaster officer in Air Force with service at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, followed forestry studies at Syracuse University and summer on Cranberry Lake. Hiking, biking, kayaking, camping, family are Seattle activities. Had dinner with Terry in 90's flying out to Albany for a Kripalu Yoga session.
7-76 Bob and G son Gus Seattle 2010
7-80 no photo-telephoned-Noyes drafted by Army while still at college 1967 but eyesight failed the physical in Manchester, VT finished BS degree at UVM
7-85 in 2010 Noyes at 1008 Dry Pond Road, Glover, VT. logging career, now a logging broker for 15 years , still a recognized logger, SFI Sustainable Forestry Initiative and LEAF certified 07-09
7-86 Noyes 100 Ac farm with wife in Chemin de Bamston, Hatley,Quebec, Canada. Has 40 sheep and 40 Limosin, across the road from the Picea abies plantation
7-90 Rosettie June 68 drafted from Albany 6/68 Army 196th Light Infantry Brigade in Company D . When not on patrol in the bush, provided perimeter security at LZ Ross (click 4th arrow from top) beginning Dec '68. That was in the Quan Nam province, Que Son valley (northern) I Corps. Also known as Hill 51. [more pics of LZ Ross ] Unit joined with 23rd Infantry Division (Americal) in 2-15-69, Chu Lai, Vietnam. Agent Orange exposure was not benficial. Passed away Oct 14, 2014.
7-90B Appears like the 7th Marines took over LZ Ross after the spring of '68, thousands of pictures eg: from Geocoded info over 400 Vietnam bases in Google Earth http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=101208&filename=214797-Vietnam-USFacilities-063006.kmz
7-91 Rosettie outside bunker writing home, M-16 by side
7-92 eating C-rations
7-92 ammo belt, sand bag bunker
7-93 bike construction battalion loader
7-94 Lt Gary Scott was our stumpie classmate majoring in Pulp & Paper so he did not attend our Cranberry Lake camp. He was the first African-American to get a degree from ESF. Most all of our class was pretty directly or indirectly affected by the Vietnam war. Gary died honorably leading his 101 Airborne Ranger Screaming Eagles platoon after only 4 months on the battlefield near Hue during the Tet offensive.
7-95 Rosettie, 2010, Syracuse, NY taught middle schools science, retired at Shea School 2001, does some volunteering at Baltimore Woods and Land Trust (bro (Eric)John lives 2miles from my house).
7-96 Olmsted, Shauger, Rosettie reunion 11-6-2010 Herkimer Applebees, great fun, Rosettie's first reunion of ANY kind- Shauger complaining there are too many baseball fans in his Cooperstown hometown ! Terry taking notes.
7-99 2008 Tom White Alaska trip
7-100 2010 Tom White & Gdaughter
7-nysm1 wall photo assembly
7-nysm2 wall photo work
7-nysm3 peavey work on log jam
7-nysm4 turn of century Adirondack camping
7-nysm5 1893 Currier and Ives Adirondack camping
7-nysm6 Oswegatchie River
side note:
link to Wish You Were Here (hundreds of beauties)
I entered some photos in the NYSM contest and an Oswegatchie River photo was included by someone else that cought my eye. My photos were from my construction days on the Albany Interstate bridges,
I realized I'd tried to capture a similar scene below in 1964 at the other end of the lake during our 10 week summer camp course on Cranberry Lake for the College of Forestry. It probably looks better in color.