North Country At Work

The International Paper Mill, with buildings in the background and stacks of paper in the foreground. 1918. Piercefield, NY. Photo courtesy of the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library.

Kathleen Camelo is the Family Practitioner and the Director of the Student Health and Counseling Center at Plattsburgh State; she’s been in the position since 1994, and oversaw the merging of the Health and Counseling departments. Kathleen grew up in the North Country, and here she explains why she got into medicine.

Anne de la Chapelle is the current director of the Plattsburgh Public Library. She’s worked in a number of different libraries in the North Country, including the Westport Library and the library of Clinton Community College. She became director of the PPL in 2013. Here she talks about what a library’s function is, her love […]

Henry Morlock taught psychology at SUNY Plattsburgh from 1965 until his retirement in 1998. He came to SUNY Plattsburgh from a stint studying sleep for the military, right when NYS was rapidly expanding the state school system. He trained rats, developed high school psychology curriculum, and helped develop performance assessments for the university, teaching Psych […]

Nancy Monette worked part-time in the children’s room at the Plattsburgh Public Library. Later, she became a librarian at St. John’s High School, her alma mater, which became Seton Catholic Central High School.

Michele Carpentier is the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at SUNY Plattsburgh. An important aspect of her job is running different programs for disadvantaged students. One of the programs that sticks out in her mind is the campus food shelf. Listen to Carpentier explain how they got the campus food shelf started. 

Yoga instructor and integrative health & lifestyle coach Melissa Light running a yoga class. This class is the first ‘Yoga and Wine on the Deck’ event at Vesco Ridge Vineyards. Members of the class are in the Shavasana pose, often used for relaxation at the end of a session. Summer 2015. West Chazy, NY. Courtesy […]

Photo from a page of Ellenburg Central School’s 1956 yearbook, “The Golden Eagle”, where Veronica Franklin taught high school English. Ellenburg, NY. Photo courtesy of Clinton County Historical Association Archives and Veronica Franklin.

Ruth McWilliams teaching the Blackmer family to snowshoe on Catamount trails during Winterfest. April 2007. Colton, NY. Photo courtesy of Ruth McWilliams.

Students working in agricultural test plots. At the time the college was known as Canton Agricultural and Technological Institute located at St. Lawrence University. This picture was taken on the current St Lawrence University Campus. Behind the barn are buildings that could be the current-day Payson Hall, Piskor Hall, and Memorial Hall. Circa 1930. Canton, […]