Board of Directors
Mr. Whitney specifically stated in his Will that “The corporation trustees, acting as such, shall receive no pay for their services, as it seems to me that the selection and honor of serving on such a board for such purpose would, with the opportunity given to benefit the youth of their own county, attract men of ability and influence who would find the work a labor of love, so to speak, and would willingly fill the office of advisors and directors of the paid working officials into whose hands they commit the actual working out of their plans and instructions.”
Current Board
President
Roy Garber
Vice President
Tom Belus
Secretary
Nadine Gale
Treasurer
Stephen Holst
Kim Love
Robert Prusak
Brandi Bilyeu
Dave Kinskey
Pam Peldo
Megan Cook
Emerson Scott
Heidi Richins
Dave Schultz
Board Members and their Tenures
Since 1927, when Whitney Benefits was created, over 100 dedicated individuals have served on the Whitney Benefits Board of Trustees. These Whitney Trustees have dedicated years of volunteer service supporting education and building our Sheridan community.
C .V. Davis 1927-1947
Alf Diefenderfer 1927-1945
F.A. Eaton 1927-1937
Edward P. Fitzgerald 1927-1935
W.G. Griffen 1927-1943
Vernon Griffith 1927-1959
Emerson Hanson 1927-1962
I.P. Hayes 1927-1945
B.G. McKeen 1927-1943H.C. Stevens 1927-1929 & 1936-1945
J.D. Thorn 1927-1931
Allen Williams 1927-1934
N.P. Yentzer 1927-1929
E.C. Bowman 1930-1955
Peter Kooi 1930-1935
L.J. O’Marr 1931-1943
J. Frank Kirkpatrick 1935-1941
Ralph Carmichael 1936-1955
Lawrence S. Fuller 1937-1943
W.N. Shackelford 1942-1965
William D. Redle 1943-1959
O.G. Rhode 1944-1963
Edwin Small 1944-1947
James Wolfe 1944-1959
Dr. P.M. Schunk 1945-1945
Jackson Bentley 1946-1953
George Johnson 1946-1951
Andre Zoutte 1946-1953
Ralph Hylton 1948-1959
Ted Kellner 1948-1952
Hurbert O. Minick 1951-1958
E.E. Edwards 1952-1959
James Carroll 1954-1960
Robert Holstedt 1954-1965
Charles H. Kane 1956-1959
J.W. Wilson, Jr. 1956-1961
Clifford H. Carroll 1958-1961
Harold Newton 1960-61 & 1972-81
Jesse K. Beeson 1960-1967
C.D. Calhoun 1960-1963
W.J. Christensen 1960-1967
William Long 1960-1975
Dr. Peter Madsen 1960-1987
Homer Scott, Sr. 1960-1993
Gus Booras 1962-1965
Henry A. Burgess 1962-1993
J. Gordon McCalister 1962-1965
Donald Roberts 1962-1965
Fred Kaufmann 1964-1969
William Welch 1964-1967
Warren Sheldon 1965-1969
C.B. Metz 1966-1993
Frank Panetta 1966-1972
Joe Parker 1966-1982S.
Watts Smyth 1966-1977
Burton Kerns 1968-1989
Ralph Foster 1969-1970
George Gligorea 1970-1991
Dorothy King 1970-2001
John P. Chase 1972-2013
W. E. Cook 1972-1991
Dr. George Ewan 1975-1999
Jane Schroeder 1977-1991
N.A. Nelson, Jr. 1982-2001
David Withrow 1982-2013
David Parker 1986-1999
Ray Johnston 1989-1994
Waldo Forbes 1991-1999
Tim Barnes 1992-2001
Roy Garber 1992-Present
Darlene Reiter 1993-1997Ky Dixon 1994-1997
Bruce Hendricks 1994-1996
Sam Scott 1994-2023
John Smith 1996-99 & 2002-05
Candy Hardesty 1998-1999
Janet Ludwig 1998-2001
Tom Belus 2000-Present
Tom Kinnison 2000-2018
Gary Koltiska 2000-2003
Tim Tarver 2000-2004
Tom Throne 2000-2003
Kim Love 2001-Present
Val Burgess 2002-2013
Mary Ellen McWilliams 2002-05
John Patton 2002-2002
Dr. Sy Thickman 2002-2002
Maureen Humphrys 2003-2015
Peter Schoonmaker 2004-2019
Samuel S. Street 2005-2014
Dr. Stephen Holst 2006-Present
Everett E. McGlothlin 2006-2023
Robert Prusak 2013-Present
Tom Pilch 2014-2017
Lynie Phipps 2014-2020
Lori McMullen 2014-2017
Dave Ferries 2015-2018
Brandi Bilyeu 2018-Present
Nadine Gale 2018-Present
Dave Kinskey 2018-Present
Doug Hockett 2019-2021
Cameron Duff 2020-2023
Pam Peldo 2020-Present
Megan Cook 2022-Present
Emerson Scott 2024-Present
Heidi Richins 2024-Present
Dave Schultz 2024-Present