Rogstad was appointed by Gov. Frank Keating to serve as a member of the Board of Regents at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha. She began a seven-year term on July 1, 2002.

Rogstad also serves on the YMCA Board of Directors, to which she was elected in 2001. For her long and diligent service to local charities and civic causes, Rogstad was named Chickasha Volunteer of the Year in 1997 after serving a year as vice president of the local Festival of Light. For her dedicated service, she was made a "Paul Harris Fellow" by Rotary International in 1994.

Through the years, her association with USAO has been varied. She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology at USAO in 1993, and was elected to the university's honor society, Hypatia. Two years later, she was elected to the USAO Foundation Board of Trustees.

Probably she is best known in Chickasha as the artist/welder who creates so many unusual designs for the local Festival of Light, a community event that puts more than 750 local volunteers to work building and displaying huge, colorful holiday light displays in Shannon Springs Park. The event, now in its 10th anniversary year, brings more than 275,000 visitors through Chickasha each holiday season. The creative process begins when Rogstad receives -- or creates -- a Christmas-theme design, then welds the shapes onto which volunteers strap thousands of lights for display in the park.

Rogstad was a vice president of the local service sorority, PEO, in 1999; president of the Home Culture Club in 1995, a member of the Southwest Youth and Family Services Board of Directors, 1994; and co-chair of the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, 1996.