[Important Information for Employees] The Deaths of Leon "Butch" Clodgo, David Lawrence and Dr. Thomas Konda

[Gerianne Downs]

Dear Members of our Campus Community,

It is with great sadness that we let you know about three of our campus
friends and colleagues who have passed away over the last few weeks.

*Leon “Butch” Clodgo*

Leon “Butch” Clodgo, 75, died Friday, Jan. 7, 2022 at his home in
Keeseville.

Mr. Clodgo joined the campus community as a steam foreman in the heating
plant in March 1968. He later became the station engineer there. After his
promotion, he worked at both Clinton Correctional Facility and Bare Hill in
Malone before returning to SUNY Plattsburgh as a maintenance supervisor 1
with maintenance and operations in 1977. He was promoted to maintenance
supervisor IV in 1989 in maintenance and operations where he remained until
his October 2002 retirement.

A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he enlisted out of high school and was
honorably discharged just prior to his long career at SUNY Plattsburgh.

At his request, there were no calling hours or funeral service. A full
obituary for Mr. Clodgo can be found here:
https://hamiltonfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/2278/Leon-Clodgo/obituary.html#tribute-start
.

The Hamilton Funeral Home, 124 Clinton St., Keeseville, 518-834-7667,
www.hamiltonfuneralhome.com, was entrusted with arrangements.

*David Lawrence*

Mr. David Lawrence, formerly of Lyon Mountain and most recently West Chazy,
died unexpectedly Dec. 31, 2021. He was 67.

Mr. Lawrence joined the college staff in printing and duplicating in
January 1978, retiring in June 2009. If anyone on campus needed help with a
print order, he was the go-to person. Although he retired in 2009, he
returned to P and D to help out for another year and a half, leaving for
real in January 2011.

He was a lieutenant in the Lyon Mountain Fire Department, the Plattsburgh
Moose Lodge and an avid snowmobiler.

At his request, there were no calling hours. Arrangements were entrusted
with the R.W. Walker Funeral Home, 69 Court St., 518-563-1760,
www.rwwalkerfh.com.

For a full obituary, visit:
https://www.rwwalkerfh.com/obituary/david-f-lawrence.

*Dr. Thomas Konda*

Dr. Thomas Konda, political science associate professor emeritus, died
Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. He was 74.

He joined the faculty as an assistant professor in political science in
September 1985 and rose to the rank of associate professor five years
later. Dr. Konda retired from full-time teaching in December 2015 but
returned as an adjunct professor, teaching for the fall 2017 semester in
the honors program.

Dr. Konda earned his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of
Alabama, his master’s in political science from the University of New
Orleans and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Kentucky.

Often consulted by area media on government and conspiracy issues, Dr.
Konda wrote “Conspiracies of Conspiracies,” a comprehensive intellectual
history of conspiratorial thinking in the United States beginning in the
18th century, during his retirement.

Calling hours are Saturday, Feb. 5 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Jacob Schoen &
Son Funeral Home, 3827 Canal St., New Orleans, La., 70119. A funeral
service, which will be lived-streamed, will follow at 1:30 p.m. at the
funeral home.

For a full obituary, visit: https://www.schoenfh.com/tributes/Thomas-Konda.

Our condolences to all who knew and loved them.

Be well and please stay safe,

Gerianne



*GERIANNE WRIGHT DOWNS*

Assistant Director of Communications

Office of the President

151 Hawkins Hall

101 Broad Street

Plattsburgh, N.Y. 12901

(o) 518-564-3094

(f) 518-564-2094

*plattsburgh.edu <http://plattsburgh.edu/>*

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