Letters

Promotions and Transfers

David Neff, Cody Maintenance.

Service Awards

Steven Otto, Traffic-Electrical – 10 years.

Retirements

Otto

Clarence Hancock

retired Jan. 5 from Basin Maintenance as a highway maintenance technician with 12 years of service to the state.

Regina Schulmeister retired Jan. 24 from Worland Patrol as a trooper with 15.5 years of service to the Wyoming Highway Patrol.

Schulmeister was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After graduating high school, she attended the Federal Police Academy graduating in 1988 with the second highest score of her class. She received three awards in Academics and Defensive Tactics. She was a Police Officer in Argentina for 12 years.

In 1997, Schulmeiser was selected to attend the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Virginia. She was the first female officer in Argentina to attend this prestigious training. While in Virginia she fell in love with the country and its people and in 1998 returned to the U.S. and settled in Wyoming.

In 2002, she joined the U.S. Naval Reserves to become a medical corpsman. In 2005, she joined the Wyoming Highway Patrol and graduated the academy with the Colonel’s Leadership Award. In 2009, she was selected as top trooper of the year. She was stationed Elk Mountain and Thermopolis prior to her service in Worland.

Schulmeister was a 2017 honoree of Wyoming Women Making History. n

Letters

Schulmeister

Motor Vehicle Services receives kudos

Dear Damion:

Thank you. However, those words just don’t seem enough to justify your work and professionalism.

Everything looks great. You have done a wonderful job. Your customer service is outstanding and remarkable. You know your job well and your dedication to WYDOT and the State of Wyoming is commendable. You walked our company through what I thought was going to be a long, tedious, confusing and difficult process with no trouble at all. You are very well-informed and knowledgeable as to the rules, regulations, policies and paperwork.

We are SO thankful you handled our IFTA/IRP information and account and look forward to working with you and the State of Wyoming for years in the future.

Furthermore, you are true to your word. When I first called in January to learn how to begin this process you said, “The most important thing to us is to keep interstate commerce moving.” You have done just that and I have no doubt you will continue. You should be proud of yourself and all you do.

Damion, everyone in our company is impressed with you.

The State of Wyoming/WYDOT is lucky to have you on board. Thanks again for taking care of us, Jill York Top-notch employees make roads safer

Hello! We drove over Togwotee Pass last night (Feb. 12, around 9:00 p.m.) and wanted to compliment and thank the plow drivers who were on schedule because they made our trip a much safer and less stressful time.

So if it is in your ability, please give them a pat on the back! Thank you, Lexi McReynolds

Thank you WHP and WYDOT

Kudos and a huge thank you to the Wyoming Highway Patrol in Cody for assisting travelers Sunday evening, Feb. 21, on WYO 120 north of Cody on the south end of Chapman Bench.

Extremely high winds were screaming across the highway, creating a long patch of ice and a ground blizzard of epic proportions. Patrol set up a relay to ferry vehicles safely through the worst part of the blizzard. Otherwise, vehicles would have spun out of control and off the road like a demolition derby.

I went through about 7:20 p.m. I don’t know how long they had been there or long they stayed, but I’m really glad they were on hand. At times, as we slowly moved forward behind the patrol car, you could not see the car in front of you nor the delineator posts on the side of the road.

There was also a WYDOT snowplow sitting in the Bennet Buttes turnout at the north end of the Bench with it’s lights flashing, warning everyone to slow down. They all kept everyone safe. Mack H. Frost Driver Services employee compliments

Regretfully, I didn’t get the name of the gentleman who helped me get my driver’s license, but he was super friendly, worked quickly and made the entire process totally pain free.

Everyone at WYDOT Driver’s License Services building were friendly, professional and efficient. This was most pain free visit I’ve had to the DMV. Being military, I’ve had to visit the DMV quite often and in several states across the country.

The employees here are top notch! Thank you. Darby Barraza

*Editor’s note: The Driver Services employee was John Soto in Cheyenne.