September Rotarian Spotlight

This month’s Rotarian in the spotlight grew up in Cheyenne, WY and graduated from Cheyenne Central High School with the proud mascot – the Indians. She is a graduate of Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri where she received BA in Political Science. She later attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. where she studied Political Psychology for one year before leaving to return to Cheyenne.

Katherine Wilkinson has been married to Chris Wilkinson for three (3) years and currently they do not have any children. Her first job was working in a medical transcription office making the minimum wage at the time, $5.15 per hour. Her proudest accomplishment is owning her own successful business before the age of 30.

Katherine was sponsored into Rotary by Dave Uchner and her most memorable Rotary experience was seeing Ramesh Farris crawl across the floor for the Polio awareness meeting. She has been very active in Rotary serving as the vocational counselor for Pao (exchange student from Mexico) and Julia (incoming student from Germany), Club Photographer, and on the Christmas Party Planning Committee. Her favorite part of Rotary is when everyone clears their throats before singing “My Country tis of Thee” – Just Kidding. She loves helping with the student exchange program, read to me, all of the local support programs and international aid programs that provide safe drinking water around the world. She is, “in awe of all Rotary does for the world.”

Her hobbies include dancing, ballet, pointe and lyrical, and reading. Her favorite meal is Thanksgiving dinner with dark meat, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes and stuffing or as an alternative anything with cheese, avocado, or bacon.

The Sargent of Arms will now present Katherine with a Cheyenne Area Chamber of Commerce gift certificate in the amount of $25.00.