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Occupation: Title Changes Daily (and at times hourly)
Donna Roscoe is an avid wildlife enthusiast and naturalist. She never met a wildflower she didn't try to identify. Every family vacation requires a extra bag just for identification books. On one such vacation, she met another fellow nature enthusiast. They went on a two hour scheduled nature hike together. Three hours later they had only gone 100 yards. What was so interesting about the hike - mushrooms. Imagine how long it would have taken if they looked at fungus too.
She's a volunteer for the Discovery Center at Ridgefield and is secretary of the organization. The Discovery Center is a nonprofit organization located in Ridgefield, Connecticut whose goal is to foster an appreciation of nature, science, history, and the arts. She is famous for keeping odd items in the freezer for them. Beware the bag at the bottom - it just may contain something you don't want to know about and definitely don't want to eat. For example, it already has contained an opossum, fox, fawn, raccoon, and a skunk. She didn't even tell her husband about the skunk until it was sent to the taxidermist. Now all these have been mounted and being used in educational programs. So you don't have to send the health department out.
She has recently retired from being a volunteer for the Girl Scouts where she somehow took on the nickname of Goddess. At one point she was co-manager for the 2,000 Girl Scouts (girls and women) in Ridgefield, their registrar for ten years, for years part of the encampment committee, and for 5 years co-organizer for the huge 6th grade and up End of Year Ceremony. Currently she helps develop and run Girl Scout programs for the Discovery Center.
Since 1992 she has been actively involved in River Study, a 4th grade environmental program presented in some of the local school districts. This program is unique in that it instructs both parents and students about river ecology and environmental awareness. After 6 years she was finally successful in changing it from an enrichment program sponsored by the PTA into the regular 4th grade science curriculum in Ridgefield. It wasn't easy either. For years she was in charge of the adult on-site training in Ridgefield and is still involved in the adult classroom training. They don't call her The River Queen for nothing.
She has a long list of past careers which started out as a “paperboy” for the Hartford Times, moved to factory worker, dairy bar waitress, AAA employee for many years which included international tour escort, travel agent in a couple of states and lastly office manager for the Law Firm of Rogers & Tartaro, LLP. At present, she is no longer working for a paycheck but expanding her horizons by taking courses and attending conferences to become a better naturalist. But mostly, she’s riding shotgun with Dad.
And now for the fun stuff. She's utterly hopeless when it comes to working many electronic devices, including the play button on the VCR. This creates much entertainment with the rest of the electronic savvy household.
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