Thomas J. Regan |  Board Chairman
Chairman of Executive Committee Member
Board Governance Committee Member
Development Council
Tom has been married to his wife, Marlys, for 45 years. They have two children, Scott and Vicki, and five grandchildren, ages 8 to 21.
Tom retired from his career as a Vice–President and Trust Officer on December 31, 1999. He has served at a number of banks in the Fox Valley, developing new business, managing assets, settling estates, estate planning, and managing endowments and foundations.
During those years, he was active in the United Way, and served on the boards of the Boys & Girls Club, Lutheran Homes of Oshkosh, Birch Creek Music Performance Center, and more.
During his retirement, Tom is still involved in many of these same organizations, as well as the Oshkosh Senior Center. In all cases assisting as a volunteer in developing planned giving programs if they do not have one.
Tom is very active in his church, helps other congregations in conducting their stewardship programs, and has conducted three church capital campaigns.
Tom became acquainted with Rawhide in the 1970’s and reacquainted in 2004. He considers it a privilege to assist in the development of Rawhide in the Planned Giving area. The Lord has given Tom a gift to love and serve others and he finds great joy in helping those in need. |
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Chris Myhre |  Board Vice Chairman
Executive Committee Member
Board Governance Committee Member
Development Council
Chris is the Director of IT - Supply Chain at Oshkosh Truck Corporation. Prior to that, he was a senior manager and practice leader in Hitachi Consulting industrial sector applications group for 12 years. Chris also spent 10 years with IBM as an industrial sector systems specialist. He has focused his career in the manufacturing and information technology for 22 years.
While attending the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Chris earned his bachelor of science in Industrial Engineering. His educational focus was Manufacturing Operations and Cost Accounting.
Chris has been involved in church planning, teaching, and feels privileged to be a part of God’s ministry here at Rawhide. He and his wife Suzan have two daughters and a son and live in Appleton, Wisconsin. His hobbies include hunting, youth soccer, and history. |
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Michael Randerson |  Board Secretary
Executive Committee Member
Board Governance Committee Member
Michael is the president of WorldHope.us, a Christian humanitarian organization providing relief, truth, and hope, to those stricken by poverty, disease, and despair. He was the founding pastor of Pathways Church, in Appleton, Wisconsin, where he served for 15 years. Michael was the Executive Director of a Residential Treatment Home for adjudicated boys for five years and was the co-host of “Radical Love” a radio program geared towards helping parents deal with the issues of raising teenagers for six years. He founded I.C.A.R.E., a parent led group that was actively engaged in curriculum review for both the Appleton and Kenosha School districts. He has written a drama that was performed for over 100,000 people across the U.S. and Canada. Michael also owned and managed a local restaurant for several years. Mike has strong leadership experience and a heart for youth.
Mike earned a bachelor of arts in Communications at Trinity College as well as a Biblical Studies degree from Berean Bible College. He is also a licensed Church Consultant and the author of Invade the Darkness, a drama performed across the US and Canada.
Mike and his wife Terri live in Greenville, Wisconsin; they have two grown children. His hobbies include racquetball, jet skiing and working in the yard. |
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Larry Carey |  Board Treasurer
Finance Committee Chairman
Executive Committee Member
Larry Carey is a native of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and currently lives in Appleton. He is the past president and owner of Dodge Country of Appleton, Inc., a five-star auto retail and service center. Dodge Country was the first dealer in Wisconsin to adopt 'One Best Price'.
Larry is the past president of WATDA, (Wisconsin Auto & Truck Dealers Association), and is also active in the Muscular Dystrophy Association in Northeastern Wisconsin.
Larry, his wife Deb, and their three children enjoy camping, skiing, and their farm retreat. He and his family are members of the Appleton Alliance Church. |
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Steve Bender |  Board Member
A native of Oshkosh, Steve resides with his wife Sandy in rural Wautoma, Wisconsin. Steve is an alumnus of Rawhide’s 1972 summer camp program, a 1974 graduate of Oshkosh North High School, and a veteran of the United States Air Force. He is currently employed as a maintenance technician for the Livesey Company.
Steve and Sandy attend Grace United Methodist Church in Wautoma. They have been involved with fundraising for Rawhide youth scholarships since 2005. Steve wishes to set an example for other alumni of Rawhide and show them that they can make a difference for today’s young men, just as it was done for them in the past.
In their leisure time, Steve and Sandy are active members of the Valley Vettes Corvette club of Appleton, Wisconsin and have served as officers and board members for the club. They enjoy spending time with Sandy’s six children and ten grandchildren and also share their home with their Springer Spaniel “Libbey” and kitten “Zora”. |
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Steve Borden |  Governance Committee Chairman
Steve brings extensive knowledge of human resources to the Rawhide Board. He enjoyed a 10-year career at Kimberly Clark and has recently retired from Alta Resources. Steve is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh with degrees in business and sociology.
He and his wife, Kim, have three sons, Zachary, Alex, and Phillip. Steve enjoys spending time at his sons' athletic events, playing tennis, golfing, and windsurfing in his spare time. His family currently attends Christ the Rock Community Church in Appleton. As a member of Rawhide's Board of Directors, Steve feels that he gains as much from this ministry as he gives. |
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Sarah Long-Radolff |  Board Member
Sarah was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She has been a resident of Appleton, Wisconsin, for 30 years and was an employee of Kimberly-Clark, Neenah, Wisconsin, for over 27 years.
Sarah has a strong ability to work and interact well with individuals regardless of their background and is committed to helping make our community a better place to live.
Current community involvement includes: monthly volunteer hours with Appleton Police Department, Fox Cities Performing Arts, and ThedaCare-Hospice; weekly volunteer hours at Echoes and St. Vincent De Paul thrift stores. She serves on the Appleton Police Intercultural Relations Advisory Committee (IRC) and Women’s Fund for the Fox Valley Region. (Fox Valley Jail Ministries and Salvation Army are other areas of involvement.)
Along with her husband Larry, they facilitate a Care Group in their home. They attend a weekly Monday night Bible class and use September Sunday school classes to introduce third grade children to the Bible.
Recent training includes Bethel Bible Series and East Wisconsin Lay School of Ministry. Sarah has served as an Ambassador in Missions (AIM) in the Grand Cayman Islands and Rugby, England. She has walked full and half Fox Cities’ marathons. That’s enjoyment!
Her son, Carl, and his wife live in Boston, Massachusetts. He was recently inducted into his Appleton high school hall of fame. Sarah’s daughter Neva, and her husband are teachers in Milwaukee inner-city schools. They have two girls, precious granddaughters whom Sarah adores. Both Carl and Neva obtained their masters degrees. |
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Marion Mueller |  Board Member
Marion was born and raised in Wausau, Wisconsin. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning her Bachelor of Science Degree, majoring in American Institutions and Secondary Education. She earned a Master’s Degree in Secondary Education and Library Science from the University of Utah. She later returned to UW-Madison for an additional year of advanced work specializing in school libraries.
Marion was employed by the Neenah Joint School District as a middle school social studies teacher at Horace Mann Junior High and opened the Conant Junior High library. She served at five different elementary schools as librarian and computer lab instructor. When Lakeview Elementary School was reopened she re-established the library program. During this time she also served as Neenah Joint School District Library Media Department Chair, retiring in 2003. Marion has also held the position of Children’s and Adolescent Literature and School Library Management instructor for University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas. She also worked as a temporary employee in the Children’s Department at Neenah Public Library.
Marion has earned several awards during her career: Neenah Special Services Teacher of the Year and was a Herb Kohl Fellow. The library at Lakeview Elementary School, when she was the library media specialist, was named the National School Library of the Year by the American Association of School Librarians.
She is currently a member of Peace Lutheran Church of Neenah and is serving on the Board of Evangelism. She has been a member of the Board of Education and has been a Sunday School Teacher and superintendent. She is also a member of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League and has been the secretary. She and her husband have been members of an adult couples Bible Study group for 35 years. Marion retired in 2011 after serving seven and one half years as the volunteer library media specialist at New Hope Christian School in Neenah where she established the library and computer programs.
She is married to Ed, who is a retired science teacher. They have two sons: John, Neenah, and Paul (Kate), South Bend, Indiana. They have one granddaughter, Elizabeth. Some of her hobbies and interests include: travel (most recently Egypt, Israel, and Jordan), crafts, knitting, and reading. She is a member of the Y.T.F. Book Club (nonfiction, established in the late 1800s) and the women’s Saturday breakfast book club at her church.
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Clyde Rasmussen |  Board Member
Clyde earned his Bachelor of Science degree in social work from Augsburg College in 1969. Shortly thereafter he met Linda, who satisfied the spiritual vacuum in his life by introducing him to Jesus Christ on September 21, 1969. Linda and Clyde married on February 14, 1970 and began working for Rawhide in March of 1970 where they assisted John and Jan Gillespie with many aspects of maintaining the daily needs of the youth at the ranch. During the next two summers, Clyde assisted Gary Thompson in coordinating the summer camp program for youth. Due to lack of funding, Clyde was given a recommendation by Rawhide and began employment at the Winnebago County Department of Human Services in November 1971, where he continues to be employed as a Licensed Child Protection Social Worker.
Within this public agency, Clyde has served in a variety of social work positions that equip him to provide effective governance to the Rawhide program. He is experienced in working to reunite families after an out-of-home placement, resolving delinquent behavior of children and teens, providing juvenile intake services with law enforcement agencies within Winnebago County, and assessing the safety of children within their homes.
Clyde also worked as a group home coordinator for Winnebago County for several years, serving youth experiencing emotional and behavioral problems, AODA dependency, delinquency and abuse or neglect.
Linda and Clyde have served in youth ministry with junior high and high school youth, taught Sunday school, and facilitated small groups in their home. They are active in the church mission teams and have accompanied youth mission trips to Mexico, New York, Idaho, Colorado, Mississippi and South Carolina. Linda is actively involved with being a grandmother to their 9 grandchildren and is able to spend time helping their three sons and their families. Clyde has served as the governing board secretary of Calvary Bible Church and currently serves in the Divorce Care ministry as a facilitator. |
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