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January 17, 2024 C. Donald Carpenter, Jr.
NYSAPLS Board of Directors Meeting 1933-2023
7:30pm – 9:00pm
Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Verona, NY Clarence Donald (Don) Carpenter, Jr. died in
Amsterdam, NY on his 90th birthday, November
January 17-19, 2024 9, 2023. He was born November 9, 1933, in
NYSAPLS 65th Annual Surveyors Conference & Exhibition Ballston Spa, NY to Carolyn (Male) and C.
Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Verona, NY Donald Carpenter, Sr.
He grew up in Schenectady and attended Nott Terrace High School.
January 19, 2024 He studied engineering at RPI and eventually became a land surveyor.
NYSAPLS Annual Membership Meeting Don formed Carpenter Associates Land Surveyors from which he
1:00pm – 2:00pm stepped down as principal in 1996. He did so much more though
Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Verona, NY than land surveying, with many varied talents and interests keeping
him always occupied.
January 19, 2024
Shaw Fund Annual Business Meeting His keen interest in history was woven through his life’s activities. In
2:30pm – 3:30pm his profession Don researched land deeds, and so eventually became
an expert in land boundaries, patents, and transactions, and created a
Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Verona, NY
book “Kayaderosseras Allotment Maps”, a land history research tool
February 2, 2024 in 1964. He collected various antique tools and farm implements,
First Friday Webinar: and would prowl the antique shows and shops, delighted with his
Professional Ethics for the Land Surveyor discoveries. He researched a local business of long ago and perused old
records, cemeteries and genealogies and wrote “The Mosher Furnace
Presented by Milton Denny, PLS of Galway: A Small Town Plow Factory”.
8:30am – 9:30am
See page 23 for details Don also enjoyed creating artwork, occasionally embellishing his
maps to depict for instance a steam train on a railroad track or fish
February 23-24, 2024 in a lake. That led him to create pen and ink drawings he entered in
NYS-Specific LS Exam Spring Review Workshop county fairs, which won him several ribbons and accolades.
Presented by Joseph V.R. Paiva, LS, PE, PhD and Richard Brooks, LS He came from a farming family and appreciated the idea of “living off the
See page 26 for more details land”. He enjoyed gardening, restoring old tractors, and using them to
March 1, 2024 maintain his property or to take to the fairs and tractor shows. A portion
of his property was set aside for Saratoga PLAN, a nature conservancy,
First Friday Webinar: TBA to keep the land there for hiking trails and nature. His contribution is
Save the date! available to hikers on the Glowegee Creek Trail in Galway.
8:30am – 9:30am
Watch our website for more details Don was a member of the NYS Association of Professional Land
Surveyors; Eastern NYS Society of Professional Land Surveyors;
April 5, 2024 Schenectady County Historical Society; Galway Preservation Society;
First Friday Webinar: TBA Tri-State Tractor Club; and the Butternut Valley Antique Tractor
Save the date! Club. He was also a charter member of the Galway Lions.
8:30am – 9:30am He overcame many adversities through his life, including two different
Watch our website for more details forms of cancer, and died as he began his tenth decade on this earth,
a milestone that would have pleased him greatly.
May 3, 2024
First Friday Webinar: He and his first wife, Mary Daniels Carpenter, had seven children:
FEMA Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA’s) Ann, Arthur, Marilyn (Tim), Catherine (Vincent) Saracco, Duane
Presented by William Nechamen, CFM (Dorothy), John (Pearl) and Scott, as well as 11 grandchildren and 18
8:30am – 9:30am great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by Mary, and grandchildren
See page 23 for more details Ted Arnold and Dan Marrano. He was also predeceased by his last
wife, Linda Miller Carpenter. Don also left behind a sister, Patricia
Carpenter Ford, and a brother, Kenneth (Karen) Carpenter and
Looking for education on-demand? several nieces and nephews.
Visit “NYSAPLS’ Online Education Portal” with instant access to Visiting hours were held December 2, followed by the funeral service,
over 90 pre-recorded web based CE hours: at the Armer Funeral Home, Inc., 39 East High Street, Ballston Spa,
https://nysapls-geolearn.wcea.education/ NY. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Saratoga PLAN
(https://saratogaplan.org/ ).

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