Collection is open for research.
Donated to the Whitman College and Northwest Archives by Roderick T. Roscoe circa 1976. The accession number associated to this donation is retro-0775.
Roderick Theodore Roscoe, born in Edmonds, Washington on July 2, 1932, graduated from Whitman College in 1954 with a degree in biology and a minor in chemistry. He attended graduate school for medicine at the University of Washington and physiology at the University of Michigan, and became a certified electrical technician at Shoreline Community College. Roscoe was also a biochemical researcher, working in labs across Washington. He died at the age of 72 on April 25, 2005, in Edmonds, Washington.
The Roderick T. Roscoe Papers house the personal records of Roderick Theodore Roscoe. This collection, which spans from 1952 to 1973, consists of a journal series by Roscoe of "Scientific Historical Facts Observed," notably concerning botany, geology, weather, machine data, history, and animal behavior, as well as laboratory tests he performed, and essays and notes on scientific topics.