[2] He graduated from Troy High School and received a B.S.
degree in dairy production from Pennsylvania State University in 1951.
[3] He worked as a dairy farmer from 1951 to 1964[4] and as an insurance underwriter from 1964 to 1977.
[5] He served as a member of the Penn State Board of Trustees for agricultural studies from 1979 to 2001 and the Pennsylvania College of Technology board of directors from 1991 to 2008.
The Roger and Peggy Madigan Library at Pennsylvania College of Technology was partly named in his honor.