443 Coleman Avenue
Elmira, NY 14903
Phone:  607-732-6060
Fax:     607-732-6210

email:  Tanglewood

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Who We Are - Tanglewood Staff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                Tanglewood Board

Elaine Spacher, Executive Director
elainems@stny.rr.com

M.A. (Biology)- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA B.S. (Biology) -SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY.

Background in research (cavity-nesting and colonial-nesting birds) and teaching General Biology, Field Ornithology and Anatomy & Physiology at the college level. Naturalist background at Virginia Living Museum (Newport News, VA) & Genesee Country Museum & Nature Center (Mumford, NY.)

Likes hiking, running, working out at the gym, bird watching, reading, watching sports (GO BILLS!) and spending time with family.

Joined us January, 2003.

Richard Gridley, Maintenance Technician
rmgrid@aol.com

B.A. (Business Administration)- Northwood Institute, Michigan.

Has his own grounds maintenance business. Likes to ski.

Joined us in September, 2002.

Cathryn Morroni, Office Manager
cmorroni@stny.rr.com

Previously employed as an office manager in the horticulture industry where she also worked in sales, plant production, and planning for a number of years. 

She enjoys working in the landscape, bicycling, hiking, and just about everything that involves the out-of-doors.  She likes spending time in the company of animals and people who love animals.

Joined us July, 2005.

Emily Jack, Volunteer Coordinator/Educator
hofeliche@stny.rr.com

B.A. (Environmental Policy and Analysis), Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

Joined us April, 2006.

Valerie Heywood, Curator
heywoodv@stny.rr.com

B.S. (Environmental Science/Biology), Southampton College of Long Island University, Southampton, NY

Joined us April, 2006.

Ian McLaughlin, Naturalist (Intern)
B.S. University of Vermont- (Environmental Studies)

Activities: snowboarding, guitar/music production, hiking/camping, soccer
Favorite Music: Electronic
Favorite Sports Team: Boston Red Sox
Favorite Snowboard Company: Electric
Dream girl: beautiful and exotic with a passion for music and the environment while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Favorite car: a truck
Biggest pet peeve: Politicians that blatantly lie and get away with it.
If you had 24 hrs. to live what would you do? I would take a heli-tek trip into the Alaskan backcountry and go snowboarding in fresh powder all day.
Favorite thing about Tanglewood: It’s a job that constantly stretches your boundaries.

Joined us January, 2006.