Officers & History

2024-2025 Board
Pictured: (Left to Right – Top) Nena James, Verna Lawrence, Carol Kolf, Lyn Bennet, Di Wilsey Geer, April Pendleton, Ginny Singer, Jean Schroeder
(Left to Right – Front) Cindi Young, Angela Lincoln, Sondra Nelson, Cathy Kelly-Stafford, Mary Cottam, Virginia Ohr, Barbara Vaughn, Tauna Leathers (2023-2024), Iris Jasperson
Not Pictured: Mary Lee Dixon, Margaret Immenschuh, Cathe Tuttle

2024-2025 Board Members
President: Di Wilsey Geer

Past President:  Verna Lawrence
President Elect:
Nena James
Treasurer:  Carol Kolf
Secretary: Angela Lincoln

Director-at-Large: Jean Schroeder

Regional Directors:
Northwest:   Barbara Bunn Vaughn & Ginny Singer
Northeast:  Lyn Bennet, Cathy Kelly-Stafford
Central: April Pendleton, Mary
Cottam
Southeast: Cindi Young
Southwest: Iris Jasperson


Membership Director:  
Sondra Nelson
Patchwords Editor:  Virginia Ohr

Web Master:  Virginia Ohr
Historian:  Cathe Tuttle and Margaret Immenschuh
Archives Director:  Mary Lee Dixon
Books for County Libraries: Verna Lawrence

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The Original WSQG Quilt made by founding members

First meeting WSQG

FOUNDING MEMBERS – Row 1:  Ceil Miner; Bonny Stonemark, Carolyn Normington; Gail Cummings Row 2: Penny Cruickshank; Wilda Vance (deceased); Daenette More, Eva Knight; Florence Brown Row 3: Twila Christensen; Jan Debolt (deceased 8/11/2023); Donna Schneider; Marianna Edgar (deceased July 2017); Gloria Greenlee; Marilyn Ford (Deceased) Founding Members not  pictured: Jeanne Allen, Sherry Fink (deceased November 2021),  Cynthia Girewahn, Betty Hoff, Lois Paules, Patty Swanson and Nancy Vase  (deceased May 2020)


CHARTER MEMBERS – 
On September 13, 1997 the first meeting was held in Casper at the Hilton Hotel.  Eva Knight was the first president and is holding the logo in the back row.

Past Presidents:

2023-2024 Verna Lawrence
2022-2023 Belle Temple
2021-2022 Jennifer Golden
2020-2021 April Pendleton
2019-2020 Deb Zelenak
2018-2019 Jennifer Golden
2017-2018 Linda Herget
2016-2017 Frances Tormey
2015-2016 April Pendleton
2014-2015 Mary Lee Dixon
2013-2014 Donna Weeden
2012-2013 Tracy Wilson
2011-2012 April Pendleton
2011 Daenette More
2010 Beverly White
2009 Joan Anderson
2007-2008 Jeannie Piner
2006-2007 Alice Kay Arnett
2005-2006 – Lynda Houfek
2004-2005 – Audrey Jarvis
2003-2004 – Vikki Chenette
2002-2003 – Sherry Fink
2001-2002 – Peg Buell
2000-2001 – Nancy Vase
1999-2000 – Daenette More
1998-1999 – Eva Knight
1997-1998 – Eva Knight

WSQG SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

(Drawn at the annual meeting.  Recipient is awarded a certificate for $200
to be used for Quilt Wyoming the following year.)

2024 – Maria Viking (Rock Springs), Cindi Young (Cheyenne, WY)

Jan Debolt Scholarship: Makayla Haptonstall (Scott’s Bluff, NE)
Kay Talkington Scholarship: Carol Kolf (Sheridan, WY)

2023 – Marilyn Vass (Thermopolis, WY), Robin Wacker (Sheridan, WY)
2022 – Lois Wragge (Sheridan, WY), Karen Sansoucie (Ft Benton, MT)
2020-2021 – Elaine Donnelly (Douglas, WY), Sue White (Douglas ,WY)
Sandra Hunter (Gillette, WY), Lynn Grassel (Gillette, WY)
2019 – Tauna Leathers  (Laramie, WY)
2018 – Sandy Ryan (Cheyenne, WY) & Sonia Cottrell (Douglas, WY)
2017 – Donna Fisher (Cheyenne, WY)
2016 – Jeanne Kramer (Sandy, UT)
2015 – Cathe Tuttle (Gillette, WY)

2014 – Mona Weeks (Cheyenne, WY)
2013 – Leta Kernen, (Craig, CO)
2012 – Not awarded
2011 – Not awarded
2010 – Carole-Ann Hopkins (Riverton, WY)