Staff Directory
Roger Gallimore
Chief Executive Officer
605.718.9622
Roger began his career with the YMCA of Rapid City as a college work-study student in 1976. After four years of leading afterschool programs, driving a bus, mopping floors and just about every other position in the YMCA, along with obtaining a BS degree from the SD School of Mines, Roger was hired as the youth outreach director. Having launched multiple new youth programs, Roger then moved into the senior program director position in 1988 where he instituted several new organizational practices and programs. In 1992 Roger was hired by the YMCA Board as the executive director. Since then the YMCA has grown more than five times its size and has expanded its reach throughout Rapid City and the southern Black Hills. Known by YMCA staff and generations of children as Captain Mustache, Roger continues to carry on his lengthy career with a passion for changing lives for the better spiritually, mentally and physically. (The mustache was shaved in 2014 in a challenge with staff for the annual campaign.) Roger and his wife, Eileen, have three married daughters and a growing number of grandchildren.
