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Most Reverend David L. Ricken, Chairman
Bishop of Cheyenne
Cheyenne, Wyoming
David L. Ricken was ordained to the priesthood by the bishop of Pueblo, Arthur N. Tafoya, in September 1980, at La Junta Catholic Parish in southeast Colorado. In 1987 Bishop Tafoya assigned Fr. Ricken to graduate studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where he received his Licentiate degree in Canon Law in 1989. He then returned to the Diocese of Pueblo as Vocation Director and vicar for Ministry Formation and was additionally named Chancellor of the diocese in 1992. Fr. Ricken was also appointed to assist in the Diocesan Tribunal. He served in these positions until October 1996, when he was nominated to be an official of the Congregation for the Clergy at the Vatican. He served in this capacity until December 1999. In January 2000 at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, he was ordained by His Holiness Pope John Paul II to the episcopacy for the Diocese of Cheyenne. In September 2001, Most Rev. David L. Ricken succeeded Most Rev. Joseph Hart as Bishop of Cheyenne.
Victor J. Riley, Jr., Vice Chairman
Chairman Emeritus of KeyCorp
Cody, Wyoming
Victor J. Riley served 26 years as the Chairman of KeyCorp when it grew from $1.2 billion in assets and 89 offices to $67.7 billion in assets and more than 1,300 banking offices around the world. Mr. Riley is an immediate past Class A Director of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, past director of the Association of Bank Holding Companies, and a current member of the Interstate Banking Commission for the State of New York.
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Mr. Riley is past president of the board for the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, a position he held for nine years. He served as a trustee of the Gilmour Academy in Gate Mills, Ohio, and, in 1989, became a member of the State University of New York at Albany Foundation, which also bestowed upon him its 1989 Citizen Laureate Award. Mr. Riley received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Dowling College, a liberal arts institution located in Oakdale, New York, and in June, 1995, was Dowling’s Distinguished Citizen Award recipient. Mr. Riley contributed in noteworthy ways in fund-raising efforts for The March of Dimes, the Cerebral Palsy Center, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, the Morehouse School for Medicine, and others. He also served as chairman of the Pius XII Foundation, which provides essential life-saving services to young and old alike. Mr. Riley’s most illustrious recognition for his service came when he was invested in 1985 as a Knight of Malta in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. Mr. Riley is currently a member of the board of trustees of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody and is the past president of the Boys and Girls Club of Park County. He also serves as chairman of the board of the Victor J. Riley, Jr. Ice Arena and Community Events Center in Cody.
Robert K. Carlson, Secretary-Treasurer
Academic Dean and Professor, Wyoming Catholic College
Dr. Robert K. Carlson taught philosophy and literature for 29 years at Casper College in Casper, Wyoming. In addition to his regular teaching duties, he founded, directed, and taught in Casper College’s Summer Humanities Program in Europe (Italy) for many years. He has lectured at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Kansas, Simpson College, Magdalen College, the University of Wyoming, and Notre Dame Seminary. Among his academic honors are memberships in Phi Theta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa, nominations to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, and invitations to speak at the International Humanists Congress in Montepulciano, Italy, and the First World Meeting of University Professors in Rome (in celebration of the Jubilee Year). He is one of the founders of Wyoming Catholic College and the Wyoming School of Catholic Thought, a summer academic and spiritual retreat sponsored by the Diocese of Cheyenne. He has been on the faculty of the latter and served as Director of Faculty since its inception. His articles have appeared in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, The Wanderer, Crisis, New Oxford Review, and The Shakespeherian Rag. His book Truth on Trial: Liberal Education Be Hanged (Crisis Books, 1995) chronicles the rise and fall of the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program at the University of Kansas.
Rev. Robert W. Cook
President, Wyoming Catholic College
Fr. Cook grew up in Rifle, Colorado, and attended Regis College, where he graduated magna cum laude with a Classical Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958. He then attended Stanford University Law School and, in 1962, received his LL.B., the equivalent of a doctor of jurisprudence. Thereafter, he practiced law in Denver and started Alternatives, Inc., an agency providing an alternative to abortion for women dealing with problem pregnancies. Concluding nearly twenty years of law practice, he attended the Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, graduating in 2000, with a Master of Divinity degree. Earlier in his life, Fr. Cook was a Benedictine monk at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, Abiquiu, New Mexico, and most recently served as an associate pastor at St. Anthony’s parish in Casper. He was designated the pastor of Our Lady of Fatima in Casper in 2001. Fr. Cook was appointed president of Wyoming Catholic College in December, 2005.
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