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Class Photo at the Buck’s Bridge School in Potsdam

Class Photo at the Buck’s Bridge School in Potsdam

Class photo at the Buck’s Bridge School, located at the intersection of four towns: Madrid, Lisbon, Potsdam and Canton. Althea Haley, teacher, in upper left. Top row, left to right: Miss Griswold, Dea Abernathy, Julia O’Brien, Jessie Hodge, Lora Allen, Belle Lawrence, Mollie Olin, Maggie Charbaneau. Second row: Clark, William O’Brien, Wardner Lawrence, Harold Wright, […]

Testing valve oil in a meat-freezer in Potsdam

Testing valve oil in a meat freezer in Potsdam

SUNY Potsdam faculty members Rebekah Covell, John Upchurch, and John Schorge test valve oil for the Crane School of Music brass players to play in the cold in Lake Placid Winter Olympics in 1980.  A local Potsdam supermarket allowed them to use one of their meat freezers for their experiment. 1979-1980. Potsdam, NY.