Meet the CPGH, Inc. Board of Directors
The current CPGH Inc. Board of Directors includes the following members:
   

Loretta Flanders, Ph.D., Board President
Loretta R. Flanders, Ph.D., served as the Manager in Technical Training and Human Resource Management for the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, D.C., from 1989 through her retirement in 1997. She was responsible for planning, developing and budgeting for all air traffic controller training and co-chaired an 18-month effort to redesign air traffic controller training.  She also served as a Manager, Senior Research and Consultant in Executive, Management and Supervisory Development and Training in the Office of Personnel Management for the federal government in Washington, D.C., and Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Flanders also taught a variety of courses for the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Florida Atlantic University, Tennessee Technological University and the University of Georgia. She holds a doctorate degree in Public Administration from the University of Georgia, a masters degree in Political Science from the University of Florida and a bachelors degree ­ also in Political Science ­ from the University of Kentucky. Dr. Flanders and her husband vacationed in Alaska for 12 years before deciding to retire in Soldotna.

Loren Karp Weimer, Board Vice-President
Loren Karp Weimer is a researcher and specialist in the Division of Gastroenterology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She has been involved in research since 1982 and continues to travel regularly to Los Angeles from the Kenai Peninsula for her work.  She has a Masters Degree from the University of California and her Bachelors is from Illinois State University. She has spent five years in internal medicine, health services research and community health program development.  She has also spent 20 years in academic gastroenterology/immunology and hospital based, basic, translational and clinical research.  She is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association, the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America and the American Medical Writers Association. She has published at least 20 articles in her specialty and served as editor/writer for three books and has just begun a fourth.   She has also served as a senior Public Analyst for the UCLA School of Medicine and a Marketing Assistant for U.S. Corporate Health Management.

Thomas R. Boedeker, Secretary/Treasurer
Thomas R. Boedeker has served as City Manager for the City of Soldotna since April 1996. He previously served 13 years as the Borough Attorney for the Kenai Peninsula Borough, where he was chief legal advisor to the Borough Administration, Assembly, School Board and School District. Prior to this he was practiced law in Anchorage where he also was an instructor for several courses at UAA and Anchorage Community College.  Mr. Boedeker holds a law degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and a bachelors degree in Political Science from Texas A & M University.  

He is a member of the Alaska Municipal Managers Association, The International City and County Manager Assoc., Alaska Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Alaska Municipal Attorneys Association, the Alaska Municipal League Legislative Committee (4 years as chairman), and the Soldotna Rotary Club (past treasurer) and was formerly a member of the Kenai Rotary Club (past president). He also serves on the Board of the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District (past president). He is an active member and president of Hospice of the Central Peninsula. He has given presentations on numerous legal and municipal issues at conferences and seminars in Alaska.

John Hoyt
John Hoyt is the Senior Vice President with Wells Fargo Bank Alaska, and previously served on the operating boards of both Sitka General Hospital and South Peninsula Hospital. He also served as chair of the South Peninsula Hospital board finance committee. Mr. Hoyt currently administers all of the Wells Fargo branches on the Kenai Peninsula. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Western Washington University and a graduate degree from the Pacific Coast Banking School of Management at the University of Washington. He has 18 years of experience in the banking industry throughout Southeast and South Central Alaska. Mr. Hoyt is a lifelong Alaskan who was born in Haines and grew up in Anchorage, where he attended Bartlett High School. He and his wife, Mary, have two children in elementary school.

Sue Carter
Sue Carter has served the Kenai Peninsula in the tourism area for many years.  She was Executive Director of the Kenai Chamber from 1983 to 1988 and Executive Director of the Kenai Convention and Visitors Bureau from 1988 to 1994.  She has also served as Interim Director for both the Soldotna and Kenai Chamber of Commerce.   Prior to 1983 she was involved in real estate sales and property management, owned a business and served as Municipal Clerk for Kenai.  She served on the Homer Electric Association Board of Directors for 14 years, the board of the Alaska Electrical and Generation Transmission Cooperative for 8 years and as president and board member of Kenai Peninsula United Way. She and her husband Jim have been residents of the peninsula for over 30 years.

Steven T. Hoogland
Steven T. Hoogland has served for the past six years as Manager of Safety and Training for Tesoro's Kenai Refinery, where he is responsible for all aspects of on-the-job and operational safety. Mr. Hoogland was born in Seward and raised primarily in Morro Bay, California.  After graduation from Morro Bay High School, he attended college at the University of California in Fresno, before returning to Alaska 23 years ago.  Prior to joining Tesoro 20 years ago, he commercial fished and served as a partner is an a commercial fishing supply business. Mr. Hoogland and his wife Kathleen have seven children. In addition, to his service as a CPGH, Inc. Board member, Mr. Hoogland has been active in a variety of community service organizations. He serves as Chair of the Nikiski Fire Service Area Board, and was the former chair of the local Emergency Planning Committee, of which he remains a member.

William J. Kelley, M.D.
Dr. William J. Kelley is a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Mass. He completed his internship at San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco, Calif., and his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, where he also served as Chief Resident. Dr. Kelley is Board Certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He served as an Internist in private practice for eight years in Oregon and then spent two years traveling with his family by sailboat for two years, prior to practicing as part of the Internal Medicine staff at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago, American Samoa. The doctor is married, has three children and is active in a variety of community activities.

Russell R. Peterson
Russell R. Peterson, P.E., is a registered professional chemical engineer in the states of Alaska and California.  He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.  Russell is currently an adjunct instructor of Process Technology at Kenai Peninsula College.  Russell has 28 years of professional engineering experience in the chemical and oil & gas industries.  He has been a resident of the Kenai Peninsula since 1987 working in various engineering and management positions for both Unocal and Agrium.  Russell and his wife Irma have one child, Alex, who is currently attending college in California.  Russell is an active member of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society local MS support group.

Alyson Stogsdill
Alyson Stogsdill has been employed by the Legislative Affairs Agency since 1988.  Prior to that she worked in the travel industry in both Juneau and Anchorage from 1971-1984, working for Alaska Airlines and Totem Travel/Alaska Travel.  Alyson has been an American Cancer Society Reach to Recovery volunteer since 1991 and acts as a volunteer trainer and Board member for the Relay For Life.  Her other volunteer activities include helping organize the PTA at Redoubt Elementary, serving as a class room volunteer and education teacher for “Our Lady of Perpetual Help” at the Catholic Church, and acting as Lady’s group president, Eucharistic Minister.  Alyson also has an Associates Degree from Highline Community College in Midway, Washington.  Her hobbies include gardening, snow-shoeing and arts and crafts.

Loren Karp Weimer
Loren Karp Weimer is a researcher and specialist in the Division of Gastroenterology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She has been involved in research since 1982 and continues to travel regularly to Los Angeles from the Kenai Peninsula for her work.  She has a Masters Degree from the University of California and her Bachelors is from Illinois State University. She has spent five years in internal medicine, health services research and community health program development.  She has also spent 20 years in academic gastroenterology/immunology and hospital based, basic, translational and clinical research.  She is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association, the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America and the American Medical Writers Association. She has published at least 20 articles in her specialty and served as editor/writer for three books and has just begun a fourth.   She has also served as a senior Public Analyst for the UCLA School of Medicine and a Marketing Assistant for U.S. Corporate Health Management.