Roscoe Hastings is a Professor Emeritus at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York. He taught Health and Physical Education for over 50 years. He received the New York State Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a member of the Section V Wrestling Hall of Fame. He has digitized and indexed thousands of Church records and newspapers. He has received The Federation of Genealogical Societies Archives Award. He has traced his family genealogy back to the 1600's colonial America. He has also researched the genealogies of over fifty Warrensburg, NY families. His ancestors or relatives have been involved in every American war since King Phillip's War in 1675 until the Afghanistan conflict in the 2000's.