David Orr
Executive Director
Lion Dave Orr has been chosen as your new Executive Director for the Lions of Wyoming Foundation. The Board interviewed candidates at their July meeting in Casper. The following is a brief life history of Dave to help you all to get to know him a little better.
Dave is the son of a Navy man who retired and moved to Cheyenne in 1962. Dave was in the ninth grade that fall, but had attended ten public schools before the move. The family had lived from Bermuda to the Marshall Islands. Dave graduated from Cheyenne East in 1966 and attended the University of Wyoming, receiving a BA in Elementary Education in 1970. He lived and taught in Las Vegas for eleven years. During that time he earned a Masters Degree in Educational Administration. After returning to Wyoming, he earned an Education Specialist degree, also in Educational Administration.
A career educator, Dave has been a public school teacher for eight years and a school administrator for thirteen. Currently he is employed by the State of Wyoming on the Air National Guard Base in Cheyenne. He is director of a National Guard Youth Program called Wyoming STARBASE Academy. All the fifth grade students in Laramie County attend STARBASE for four days (that's over 1,200 students per year). The focus of the program is to teach students the importance of goal setting and teamwork while making good choices in life. He has worked there for eight years, serving as Director for the last five years.
Dave became a Lion for the first time in the early 70s when he joined the Las Vegas Breakfasters Lions. He was in the club for three years, was chosen Rookie of the Year his first year, and served as club treasurer the next two years. Because of some career changes, Dave resigned from Lions. Dave rejoined Lions in 1981 in Hanna. He moved to the Medicine Bow club where he went through the chairs to president. In Mountain View, he served on the Board of Directors. In Cheyenne, he went through the chairs to president, served five years as secretary (a year and a half was also treasurer). He has also served as a Zone Chair and a Region Chair. Currently he is District 15 Membership Chairman.
In addition to his work in Lions, Dave is active in his church. He has been a Sunday School teacher, choir member, Finance Committee Chairman, Administrative Board Chairman, and has been Lay Delegate to Annual Conference for the past seven years. He is also currently serving as Church Treasurer.
Lion Dave has been married to Kathy, a kindergarten teacher, for over 30 years. They have three children: Kasey, currently in the Army, Kristi, who lives in San Antonio and Kelly, who lives near Boise, Idaho with his wife and two children.
Dave told the Board of Directors that he continues to be excited about the opportunity of working with the Foundation. Through the Foundation, he feels he is able to be personally involved with fulfilling the primary goal of Lions – serving those in need.
You can communicate with Lion Dave Orr by e-mail at: dorr7111@bresnan.net or snail-mail at: 224 Talon Court, Cheyenne, WY 82009.
His home phone is: 307-778-8568
