Standing left to right: Shari Gaier, Board Member, Mary Huset, Board Member, Connie Olson, Board Memeber, Eunice Dewey, Board Member, Alyce Bannister, Board Member, Dawn Knutson, Treasurer

Tim Knutson
President

Tim Knutson is a 1986 graduate of Chetek who is employed outside the community as well as a small farmer. Tim has been the president of CWSF since Spring of 2008.   He and his wife Dawn have two kids.  Tim's vision for the CWSF is to have an organization that can eventually provide self sustaining aid to Chetek-Weyerhaeuser graduates in their quest to gain secondary education, go out in the world and make a difference, and hopefully return one day to give a small piece of their spoils back to the community in which they grew up.

John Flor
Vice President

John Flor has been a member of the CWSF since 2004.  He was born and raised in Chetek and graduated from Chetek in 1986.  John's family has lived in Chetek for 5 generations and he believes that having a strong community starts with having a strong school. He continues this tradition as him and his wife and four children live in Chetek. John feels as college education expenses increase we have an obligation as a community to support our children.  Hopefully, this assistance will be a determining factor when many of our children decide where they would like to live, work and raise their children. After graduating from Chetek, John attended the University of Minnesota and received a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree.  After college, he was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Navy and served ten years as a Naval Flight Officer in the EA-6B Prowler.  In 2001 he moved back to Chetek and joined the family business at Six Lakes Realty where John is a Managing Broker. John is very active in his community he is highly involved with the local and state Board of Realtors, currently serving as the President elect of the Realtors Association of Northwestern Wisconsin and Treasurer of the Wisconsin Realtors Association. He also serves on the St. Boniface Parish Finance Committee, the Chetek Chamber of Commerce and is active with the Chetek Lions Club.

Kris Hanson
Secretary

Kris (Wendt) Hanson joined CWSF in 2009.  She is a graduate of Chetek High School.  Kris is a ten-year employee of UnitedHealth Group and has served in a variety of leadership positions, most recently as Project Director for new product implementations. In this capacity she works with various states to implement their Medicaid Long Term Care products. She is part of the corporate team, based out of Minneapolis, but has made arrangements to work from the Eau Claire office. This has allowed her family to make Chetek home. Kris values the opportunity to raise her three young children in the same community in which she grew up.  The family appreciates the culture and opportunities of small-town living. Kris looks forward to her involvement in CWSF and sees it as an opportunity of social responsibility and a means to give back to the community while supporting youth, education and workforce development.

Alyce Bannister
Board Member

Alyce Bannister has been a member of the CWSF since 2003.  She moved to Chetek in 1965 after marrying Dr. Fred Bannister who was a family physician in Chetek.  Alyce knows that through their three daughters that Chetek High School gives students the skills they need to succeed beyond high school.  She also feels it's a big world out there and to make the most of their opportunities, a student will need further education, be it through the technical or university systems.  She is committed to helping them get a financial start through our CWSF, which also says to them, We Believe in You and your success in the future. Alyce graduated from the University of Kansas in 1963 with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Nursing.  Having an education opened all sorts of doors for work and life experiences for Alyce both in Kansas and California.  From 1986-2003 she was the Chetek School Nurse and started a Certified Nursing Assistant Program for high school students through the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College, which she is still teaching.  It was through this experience that she realized the importance the role of the community takes in supporting our students with their encouragement and financial support.  It can make the difference between success or failure of a student.

Dr. Fred Bannister
Board Member

Dr. Fred Bannister has been involved with CWSF since its inception date of 1996.  He practiced medicine as a family physician in Chetek for 40 years.  Dr. Bannister feels it is important to give the kids from Chetek-Weyerhaeuser a fighting chance in the world we live in.  His three children had several great educational experiences attending the Chetek School District. Dr. Bannister feels post high school education is reaching cost level threatening education for new Chetek - Weyerhaeuser high school graduates and we need to work to ameliorate this.

Eunice Dewey
Board Member

Eunice (Hanson) Dewey has been involved with CWSF since 1999. She graduated from the Chetek School District in 1970. Eunice feels that nothing could be more important than having CWHS graduates realize the value of continuing education and then be a part of helping them to obtain that education. Education is expensive and anything CWSF can do to help CWHS graduates get started on post secondary degrees is important to her and to CWSF.  Eunice worked in three local education districts during her career; 13 years in the Barron School District, 7 years in the Bloomer School District and 13 years in the Chetek School District. She was hired as a middle school counselor in 1994 and became the high school guidance counselor in 1999.   She has been involved in career planning and post secondary education for her entire career and believes that everyone; in this day and age, can realize their potential by obtaining specialized training after high school.