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Evergreen Retirement Community
1130 North Westfield Street
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54902
(920)233-2340

Board of Directors

 

Evergreen Retirement Community is governed by a voluntary 18-member Board of Directors consisting of community members and three residents.


Barbara Cook is the liaison from the Evergreen Foundation Board and the Health and Welfare Ministries Committee of Wisconsin Conference of United Methodist Church. She is retired from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh College of Education and Human Services as Director of the Professional Education Program. Barbara received her BA from Hendrix College in Arkansas and MSE from UW Oshkosh. She was president of the Oshkosh Branch of AAUW and is treasurer of the United Methodist Conference Board of Ordained Ministry. She is a member of the District Committee on Ordained Ministry and is the Chair of the Algoma Boulevard United Methodist Church staff parish relations committee and lay representative to the United Methodist Annual Conference.


Will Deppiesse received his BA from Ripon College and is a Vice President at First Business Bank. He is involved in Oshkosh Rotary Club, Propel, and Oshkosh Area Economic Development Corporation. Will was a Leadership Oshkosh adjunct member of the Evergreen Board of Directors before joining the Evergreen Finance Committee. He enjoys golfing, yard work, and watching sports. Will and his wife have two young children. 


Dede DeWitt,
a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, is a retired teacher from the Oshkosh Area School District and is now a community volunteer. She is a member and past president of P.E.O. Chapter CG, past president of the Oshkosh Newcomers Club and a docent at the Oshkosh Public Museum.  She is a member of First United Methodist Church and is a lay member to the Annual UM Conference.  She and husband Andy have two grown children.   


Dr. E. Alan Hartman has been a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh since 1976 and Dean of the College of Business Administration since 1995. He received his BA degree from the University of Wisconsin; his MS degree and PhD from Michigan State. Alan is a member of the Leadership Oshkosh Steering Committee, the Center for Applied Research and Services Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors for the Northeast Chapter of the Wisconsin Innovation Network.


Marsha Hughes

 

Randy Husman, liaison from the Evergreen Foundation Board, has been a Prudential Representative for 33 years with an emphasis on retirement planning. With a BS degree in Business Management, Randy is also a Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant. He is chairman of the Church Administrative Council and a member of the Finance Committee at First United Methodist Church in Oshkosh. He and his wife Linda have three adult children. Randy enjoys traveling, boating, and water skiing and joins many other fans in Wisconsin as an "assistant coach" to the Wisconsin Badgers and Green Bay Packers. 

Alice Jenkins
, an Evergreen resident, worked for 32 years as an administrative assistant to a prison warden, high school principal, and the University of Wisconsin vice chancellor. Alice enjoys reading, needlepoint, organ playing, volunteering and computers, and attending Bible study, prayer group, and church services at Evergreen.


Marcia Larson

 

Jayne Lindsay is the liaison to the Board from the Ladies Benevolent Society: Advocates for Older Adults.

Sue Kreibech

 

Dan McIntosh, Board Chair, is retired from Appleton Papers as the Executive Vice President after 37 years with the company.  He holds a BS in chemistry/paper science and an MBA in marketing from Miami University; and is a member of the Neenah Library Board and the Neenah Board of Appeals.

 

Roy Ney, Evergreen Manor Apartment resident, has an accounting degree from Fond du Lac Business College. He retired after 40 years as accountant, office manager and traffic manager with Lakeside Foods in Manitowoc and also served on the Board of Directors there. He was a member of the first Manitowoc Kiwanis Club and was Exalted Ruler and board member of the Elks Club.  Roy and his wife Edoris, who passed away in 2009, have two sons, two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Roy is a member of the First United Methodist Church.

Betty Paterson, liaison from the P.E.O. Help Fund Board and the Evergreen Village Board, is retired from the Oshkosh Area School District where she was a Kindergarten teacher and a reading specialist. She is a member of P.E.O. Chapter CG and the Membership Chairman of the State Board of the National Episcopal Church Women’s Board.  Betty was the first woman to be Senior Warden in a local parish.


Rev. Stephen Rankin, a retired United Methodist minister, is an Evergreen resident and lives with his wife Ruth in an Evergreen Home.
 

Chris VanStraten

 

Susan Vette also serves the Oshkosh Community on a variety of civic organizations and boards.  Susan is a member of the Women’s Fund of the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation; Oshkosh Opera House Foundation; UWO Foundation; Affinity Health System; Progress Oshkosh; League of Women Voters, Leisure Hour Art Club; Mercy Health Foundation (emeritus).


Sue Winninghoff has a background in Business and Finance and is a licensed real estate broker. In 2005 she retired as Winnebago County Register of Deeds. She served as chair of many committees for Algoma Blvd United Methodist Church including Strategic Planning, Finance, new Building Committee and the Construction Fund Drive. She has been active in the Oshkosh community with Southwest Rotary, Meals on Wheels, Oshkosh YMCA and several committees. She also provided past service on the Evergreen Board and Foundation. She is a member of P.E.O. Chapter CG and loves the water exercise classes at Evergreen. She and her husband Roger have two grown children. 

Rev. Barry Yarbro
, Board Vice-Chair, is the pastor of Algoma Blvd United Methodist Church in Oshkosh.