Meet Our Newest Rotarians

  Colonel Steve Rader, Vice Wing Commander of the Wyoming Air National Guard

 Steve holds an AAS degree in Automotive Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology from Southern Illinois University. Steve served in the Air Force from 1978 through 1982 and worked in the service department at Tyrrell Chevrolet from 1983 through 1989.   Steve joined the Wyoming Air National Guard in 1983 where he worked as a communications technician and later as a navigator in the C130 aircraft. He was hired full time by the Wyoming Air National Guard in 1994 and has since served in many roles including Squadron Commander, Group Commander and Vice Wing Commander. He has been deployed numerous times around the world including to Panama, England, Germany, Japan, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq and Qatar.  Steve has three daughters...Kindra, Katrina and Aylisa who are all currently in college.  Steve and his current partner Linda plan to split their time between Wyoming and Ecuador where they have a great apartment overlooking the Tomebamba River when they retire.

Stig Hallingbye

Stig grew up in Oslo, Norway. At one point in his young life he dreamt of becoming a dairy farmer. Instead he came to the US to attend the University of Wyoming and ski for the WY Ski Team. He has a B.S. in General Business (1977) and a Master’s Degree in Ag Econ (1982) from UW. He spent his first couple of years after college working as an Economist for the State of WY. He then began what has become a long and prosperous banking career in ever increasing roles of responsibility with banks in Cheyenne, Laramie and Grand Junction, CO. He took a year long hiatus from the working world in 2009-2010 and rejoined the banking world in September 2010 as EVP at Wyoming State Bank. Stig and his wife, Beth, have two adult, married children. Stig enjoys golfing, snow skiing (and ski jumping), bicycling, and spending quality time with his family and friends.