Jean Mary Legge

Background

Legge, Jean Mary was born on April 26, 1951 in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States. Daughter of Alvin Joseph and Caroline Lucille (Peters) Steckler.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Education, Valley City (North Dakota) State University, 1987.

Career

Legal secretary, Bruce Britton Law Office, Jamestown, 1973-1974; bookkeeper, volunteer coordinator, South Control Mental Health, Jamestown, 1974-1975; high school science teacher, Kathryn (North Dakota) Public School, 1987-1989; high school science teacher, Marion (North Dakota) Public School, since 1989. Member breeding bird survey United States Fish & Wildlife, Valley City, since 1988, volunteer neotropical migrant bird census on Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge, 1994. Outdoor skills workshop facilitator North Dakota Game & Fish Department, Bismarck, 1992-1995.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome workshop facilitator North Dakota Department Public Instruction, Bismarck, since 1991. Science educator, panelist in-service Valley City StateU., since 1989. Reviewer National Science Education Standards, 1995.

Achievements

• Jean Mary Legge has been listed as a noteworthy secondary school educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Coach 4-H Wildlife Judging Team-Barnes County, Valley City, 1989. Committee chair camp registration Barnes County Wildlife Federation, Valley City, 1991-1999. Project facilitator WET, WILD.

Volunteer bird population census project United States Geological Service. Seasonal birding guide Dakota Birding Business, sustainable agricultural bird census, 2004-2005, volunteer web page author, former member steering committee, Save The Sheyenne, former board member North Dakota Wildlife Federal. Volunteer shorebird census, 2004.

Member North Dakota Science Teachers Association (planning consultant, chair pub.rels. committee 2005), North Dakota Orienteering Alliance (secretary 1993—2005, coach), Marion Education Association (vice president 1990, secretary 1993, president 1994), American Birding Association, Barnes County Wildlife Federation, Water Education Teachers (curriculum field teacher 1994), Dacotah Chapter Sierra Club (conservation chair since 2001).

Interests

• Avocations: reading, gardening, camping, hunting, birding, butterfly collecting.

Connections

Married Edwin H. Hassler, December 1976 (divorced December 1985). Children: Jennifer, Zachary, Erin. Married Lewis J. Legge, Jan 15, 1988.

Father:

Alvin Joseph Steckler

Mother:

Caroline Lucille (Peters) Steckler

Spouse:

Edwin H. Hassler

Spouse:

Lewis J. Legge

child:

Erin Legge

child:

Zachary Legge

child:

Jennifer Legge