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Norma Appel RENEW Foundation Chairman Retired Rancher, World traveler Norma is an active member of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church and was a past member of the USDA Loan Board for three years; Custer County Parks and Recreation Board for 5 ½ years and participated in the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association, Custer County Cattlewomen and the Republican part
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Chad L. Hooker RENEW Foundation Secretary/Treasurer Vice President and Gillette Financial Services Group Manager First Interstate Bank Chad joined First Interstate Bank in September of 1999. Since joining First Interstate, Chad has worked with his clients to develop and maintain comprehensive estate, business and financial plans. Chad is an attorney who practiced law in Gillette from March of 1994 to September of 1999. His private practice of law focused on corporate, business, tax, estate planning, probate and oil and gas. Chad obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1989, graduating Magna Cum Laude and his Masters of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in Accounting and Statistics from the same institution in 1990. He attended Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas where he graduated with Dean’s Honors in 1993. Chad is a member of the Wyoming State Bar and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court in Wyoming. Chad is a founding member of the Northeast Wyoming Estate Planning Council, a Director of the RENEW Foundation and regularly provides pro bono legal and tax work to local foundations and community organizations. Chad also serves his church in many capacities most recently working with the Finance and Building Committees. Aside from his work at First Interstate, Chad and his wife Susie, a registered pharmacist, own Medicap Pharmacy in Gillette and Laya/Main Street Pharmacy in Sheridan. Chad and Susie have one child, Derek, who is five years old. Away from business, Chad spends his time coaching Derek’s soccer and baseball teams as well as watching Derek play hockey. In his spare, spare time Chad plays golf, builds golf clubs and spends time doing remodeling projects around the house. |
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William A. White RENEW Foundation Board Member Branch Manager for Sheridan office of the investment firm, US Bancorp Piper Jaffray. William's family includes wife, Loran, and three sons, Alex, Ted and Oliver. A native of Rapid City, SD, he relocated to Sheridan in April 1998. William joined the RENEW Foundation Board in 2002. |
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Olive White Businesswoman, Researcher Olive White is now deceased. We will fondly remember Olive for her years of serving on both the RENEW Board and RENEW Foundation Board and the contributions she made. Olive's parents homesteaded in Campbell County and met at a box-supper social event and were married a year later. At four years old, Olive's father past away. After two years of Olive's mother struggling to maintain two homesteads and teach school, it was decided they would move “back East.” Olive grew up in Illinois; attend DePauw University and the University of Illinois, graduating with a degree in biochemistry. Her professional career consisted of research at the Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1950, Olive left Harvard to marry Ellison White, a physician she met at the Mayo Clinic. Following his career meant the family, eventually including ten children, lived in Wisconsin, Texas, and Mississippi. Because of difficulties managing a Wyoming ranch from these distances, they eventually moved to Gillette. After Olive's husband’s death, she opened and managed, YOUR BOOK STORE on Gillette Avenue. During this time, Olive joined the Board of Directors of RENEW and, after many years with the League of Women Voters decided to try partisan politics. Olive served as County Chair of the Campbell County Democratic Party and as a member of the Wyoming Central Committee. She is an active member of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, currently serving on the Vestry and as a Stephen Leader for a program devoted to lay pastoral care. |
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Norma
was raised around Scottsbluff, Nebraska and Torrington, Wyoming
and came to Gillette in 1949. She graduated from Custer County
High School and is the mother of five daughters and six
grandchildren. Norma lives in Gillette in the winter months and
in Pine Haven in the Summer months. She is a retired rancher
and likes to travel the United States and abroad.