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Rebecca Rych
Rebecca is the WPH Foundation director. She has served as an executive director for nonprofits for the past decade, including health care and higher education.
Rebecca comes to WPH from Las Vegas, where she earned her bachelor's degree in kinesiology and health care management and her master's degree in public administration and nonprofit management.
Rebecca is a past member of organizations such as AAUW, Rotary, local chambers of commerce, Shriners and St. Jude's Ranch for Children.
In her free time, Rebecca enjoys golfing, mountain biking, skiing and simply being outside.
Her vision for the WPH Foundation is to create a secure endowment for ongoing financial support for patients, families and visitors to WPH.
Rebecca can be reached at 578-2338 or rrych@wphcody.org.
Becky Stern
Becky Stern was raised on the East Coast. She and her husband, Terry, retired to Cody in 2000 after owning a house here for four years. They spent many years fishing around the West, always coming back to Cody. At first, they divided their time between Sarasota, Fla., and Cody, but after realizing that they were not really part of either community, they came to live here permanently. They have two children, a son Charles and a daughter Caroline, and two grandsons.
Becky attended Vassar College. Before and after their marriage 49 years ago, Becky worked in advertising. After her children were older, she was the administrative assistant at two thoroughbred breeding and racing operations as well as the president of the board for many years of the oldest Audubon Sanctuary in the United States. She presently also serves on the Yellowstone Behavioral Health Center Foundation Board.
She and her husband live on the upper South Fork relishing the beauty, the wildlife and the serenity. They both enjoy fishing, photography and cooking.
Doug McMillan
Doug McMillan is the chief executive officer at West Park Hospital. Doug has been CEO at WPH since 1997 and has been a hospital CEO since 1984.
Doug received his bachelor's degree in hospital administration from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., and a master's degree in hospital administration from the University of Colorado. Doug grew up in Absarokee, Mont.
Doug is a past Cody Rotary Club President and serves on several regional boards of directors. Doug is married to Debbi McMillan, and they have three boys, Darrick, Dayton and Drew. Doug enjoys watching his boys' sports activities, fishing, skiing and physical fitness training.
Doug Weedin
Doug is the president and chief executive officer of Pinnacle Bank-Wyoming. Doug has been the CEO at Pinnacle since 1982.
Doug grew up in Aurora, Neb., and received his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1976. Doug is the chairman of the Cody
Recreations Foundation and serves on the Northwest College Foundation Board as
well as other local and regional boards of directors.
Doug's family includes his wife, Sarah; son, Jeff, and his family in Bozeman, Mont.; and daughter, Lezlee, of San Francisco. Doug enjoys fly-fishing, golf, basketball and traveling with family and friends.
Graham Jackson
Graham was born and raised in Nashville, Tenn., and met her husband, Bob, in college. Graham is a "closet" artist as she loves to oil paint and do pen-and-ink drawings and needlepoint. With Bob's work in geology, they gave been able to live in many interesting places, even overseas in Indonesia. Graham has worked in banking since 1976 and has been able to continue that profession as they moved around for Bob's career. Graham and Bob moved to Cody in fall 1994. They had been fortunate to often come to Cody visiting friends and decided that it would be a wonderful place to call home. Their goal was then - and still is today - to retire in this community.
Graham is a huge believer in the area and has always thought that becoming involved in one's community was important. Over the years, she have been honored to serve on numerous committees, boards and fundraisers, some of which are listed below:
Co-Chair for first two years of The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life; board member for Northwest Wyoming Family Planning and chair of the Crab Crack Fundraiser; Park County Boys and Girls Club board member; board member and treasurer for Cody County Chamber of Commerce; past president, vice president and secretary with Soroptimist International of Cody; Park County Library Foundation board member and treasurer; committee member as well as previous Chair of the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale Committee; and trustee for West Park Hospital.
Joe Tilden
Joe was born in Winter Haven, Fla., in 1950 and attended Saint Andrews School and Florida State University. He moved to Wyoming in 1971 and started his career in guest ranching outfitting and cattle ranching when he and his family purchased Castle Rock Ranch on the South Fork of the Shoshone River in 1973.
In 1987, he sold the ranch and became an investment advisor with B. J. Leonard and Dean Whitter. In 1986, he started The Trophy Connection, a booking agency for worldwide hunting and fishing trips. He now manages The Big Hat Ranch on the South Fork.
Joe served on the board of trustees for School District 6 for 11 years, holding the offices of secretary, vice chair and chair. During his time on the board, the district passed an $11 million bond issue and with the help of a state grant were able to build a new middle school, high school and elementary school and renovate two others.
His love of hunting fishing and the outdoors has lead him to be a member of Cody Country and Wyoming Outfitters and Guides Association, serving as a member of the boards of both. He has been a member of the Boone & Crocket Club, serving as chair of the National Collection of Heads and Horns. He is the founding President of Sportsmen for Fish of Wyoming, a sportsmen's group 3,000 strong dedicated to preserving Wyoming's sporting heritage. He continues to serve as their president.
Joe has 2 grown children and 3 grand children.
Michele Keith
Michele and her husband Rob live on a ranch on the North Fork which they purchased in 1991. Prior to that date they lived full time in Minnesota outside of Minneapolis.
They have two grown children and while in Minnesota she was active in the community and served on the following Boards: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Minneapolis Foundation, and chaired the Boards of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, Sister Kenny Institute and Sister Kenny Foundation.
After purchasing the ranch, she and her husband began spending more time Cody. In 1997, they became full time residents, although they still travel to Minnesota each month.
Since moving to Cody, she has been involved with the Boards of Park County Mental Health, Northwest Family Planning and chaired the Boards of the Wyoming Health Council and Bright Futures Mentoring.
Her interests outside of volunteer activities are enjoying the beautiful outdoors, gardening, knitting, pottery and yoga.
Peggy Rohrbach
Peggy has lived in Cody for the past 35 years and has three grown children and nine grandchildren. Her hobbies include jogging (marathoner), skiing, hiking, biking, traveling, reading and training Lola, her Irish water spaniel.
Peggy and Bill had been married for 42 years before his death, and she decided to carry on his philosophy for community involvement. She became a member of the Park County Library Foundation in 2008 and is a trustee of West Park Hospital District in addition to being a member of the West Park Hospital Foundation.
She is a past president of the Northwest College Alumni Association and has been an associate broker at Prudential Brokerage West Real Estate for the past 19 years.
Charlie Moore
Charlie was raised in central Pennsylvania on a farm. His father was the founder of two veterinary pharmaceutical companies. He received his BSW from Philadelphia Biblical University and took his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.
He began his business career in finance in the international broadcast business living in Europe for three years and then returned to the states to found his own studio design and integration company. That company was acquired in 1983, and Charlie and his team built the new entity into the largest audio/video/visual company in the world. In 1989, he saw an opportunity to provide business rehabilitation services for troubled companies in the professional audio industry and subsequently acquired and sold several companies.
Charlie and a group of other business executives began a successful school for precision manufacturing technologies in the Philadelphia area and that school continues now run as a manufacturing charter school.
In 1999, he contracted Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and successfully underwent treatment. This illness accelerated his desire to retire early, and in 2004, he moved to a home he had owned here in Cody since 2000.
He is now semi-retired and lives here in Cody with his wife, Lynne. He presently conducts large independent insurance inspection agency in northwest Wyoming and also operates Concierge Management services, a company that watches vacant properties for nonresident homeowners here in the Cody area. He also volunteers at a number institutions, served out the West Park Hospital Board of Trustees term of Bill Rorhbach and continues to consult back to his former industry, and, from time to time, writes for professional audio journals.
Jan Eldredge
Jan is administrator for Absaroka Assisted Living Community, a 46-apartment facility in Cody. Her previous careers include running an Institutional Review Board for five hospitals, administering a Realtor Association and various other health care administration positions.
Jan grew up in Dayton, Ohio. She received her bachelor's degree in English Literature & Composition from Ohio Wesleyan University and her master's degree in Health Policy & Administration from Washington State University.
Jan and her husband, Bruce, have lived in Cody for two years. They have two daughters: Lindsay, who lives with her husband in Seattle, and Barbara, who lives in New York City. She is a member of the Cody Rotary Club and the Cody Music Club. In her spare time, Jan enjoys volunteering at the Buffalo Bill Historical Society, assisting with the annual ENCORE used-clothing sale, reading, sewing and birding.
Judy Cali
Judy grew up in Arlington, Va., and moved to Cody in 1992. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in special education for learning disabilities.
In addition to the WPH Foundation board, Judy also has served on the boards of Yellowstone Behavior Heath Center,
Bright Futures Mentoring Program and Wyoming Community Foundation.
She is married to Paul Cali, and they have two children and two grandchildren.
Kim Slight, M.D.
Dr. Slight is a physician employed by WPH as a hospitalist and former hospital district trustee.
He attended the University of Southern California School of Medicine and completed his residency at Keesler Medical Center in Buloxi, Miss.
Dr. Slight is board-certified in Internal Medicine and worked at Sister Joanna Bruner Medical Clinic in Cody before becoming a WPH hospitalist.
David Taylor, DDS
Rick Cook
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