I am a life-long resident of the Odessa-Montour School District, with the exception of the four years I served in the Navy.  I graduated from O-M in 1988, and returned here to do my community service in December of 1994 as a 5th and 6th grade basketball volunteer coach while taking classes at Elmira College.  I graduated from Elmira with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and secondary education in June of 1997 and then received my master's in education in 2003 from Elmira as well.  I first taught at Hammondsport High School from 1997 through 2003, until Mrs. Walker's retirement opened a science position here at the high school.  I have taught all the middle and high school science classes with the exceptions of Earth Science and Physics.  I am currently teaching in the same room my paternal grandmother taught in some sixty plus years ago. I have three children that also currently go to school here at Odessa-Montour.  Lastly,  like my favorite President, Theodore Roosevelt, my greatest interest outside of my children involves nature and the outdoors. I enjoy fishing and hunting from the perspective of the conservationist, not preservationist.