“My SUNY Adirondack professor helped me get on the road to what I love and what I want to do.”
FACULTY NOTES FROM PROFESSOR VAL HASKINS:
Rocco is a wonderful success story! He started out college and did not do well, by his own admission. When he came back, he did a GREAT job. He often got over 100 in my classes (VERY rare!), and worked for me as a student tutor and assistant.
Top photo: Rocco in front of Mound 1 at the Shady Grove Site (22QU525) in Mississippi, working on a burial removal in 2012 Bottom photo: Dr. Nicholas P. Herrmann, Professor Val Haskins and Rocco at Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, archaeological site
He received the Anthropology Student award and was very active in the Anthropology Club. I’m proud to say that Rocco studied with one of my first students, Dr. Nicholas P. Herrmann, who is quite well known and established. It was a great honor to have Rocco be one of my first academic “grandsons.” He finished his MA, and has been working as an archaeologist in Greece and throughout the Southeast, but especially in Alabama.