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William L. Fox, Jr. was the 18th President of St. Lawrence University.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts from St. Lawrence University (1975), a Master of Divinity from Harvard University (1978), and a Ph.D from George Washington University (1989).  He served as President of St.

The Grasse River is a 115 mile tributary of the St. Lawrence, and is located entirely in St. Lawrence County.  The South Branch begins near Long Tom Mountain in the Town of Colton, and the river runs through Russell, Canton and Madrid on its way to meet the St. Lawrence River downstream of Massena.

The Michael W. Ranger Endowment for Special Collections at St. Lawrence University is a permanent endowed fund for the Special Collections in the Owen D. Young Library. The endowment will fund the purchases of materials to acknowledge and reflect Mike’s love of history, St.

Rachel Pierce-Blanchard was the eldest of the eight children of Foscott Harris, founder of Harrisville, NY. Siblings include Sally, Roxana, Austin, Jane, James, and Russet (all mentioned in letters). She had two children of her own, Charles O. Pierce and Helen Bones.

Helen E. Whalen was the registrar at St. Lawrence from 1930-1968. During the years of the Second World War, she served as “Communications Officer” between the college and those in the greater Laurentian community serving in the Second World War. In this capacity, she wrote and published “Tommie’s Newsletter,” which was a periodic sharing of the location, status, and general news of those serving abroad. During the war, she kept photographs and other objects sent to her on display in her office.

The Fred Rollins Post Card Collection consists of over 3000 of St. Lawrence County locales.  The oldest postcards in the collection date to the first years of the twentieth century, and the collection includes postcards published up to 2000. Many of the images are of buildings in the county.  There are also postcards for St. Lawrence County Railroads, and postcards with images of or advertisements for businesses located in St. Lawrence County. The postcards were manufactured by a variety of different companies.

The collection consists of correspondence, poetry manuscripts, and ephemera related to the 1987 St Lawrence University David B. Steinman Festival of the Arts entitled “Art and the Vietnam Experience.” The collection consists mostly of unpublished poem manuscripts written by people who served in the armed forces during the Vietnam War.

The collection consists of drawings, prints, and monographs that are illustrated by British sculptor and engraver Eric Gill. The collection primarily consists of illustrations made for books, with special interest in illustrations done for Golden Cockerel Press books.

Approximately 500 photographic images (mostly glass plate negatives) documenting people and places, mostly in Canton, but also Potsdam, NY, from the 1890’s to the 1940’s.

The Adirondack Collection consists of ephemera, promotional literature, maps, magazines, commercial photo albums, picture books, Seneca Ray Stoddard photographs, and 2 groups of unidentified photographs. Also included are the records of Citizens to Save the Adirondack Park, from 1975-1982.