Tartt.CEO, Founder, and Principal Broker of Golden Key Real Estate Property Management and RH Collective Sales Team Alda May Spieth, for whom Spieth Hall is named current UWA athletics director Kent Partridge former history professor Elizabeth Hoover, whose name graces a campus apartment complex former UWA president Asa Green and folklorist and painter Ruby P. Included among the inductees is former Alabama state legislator Gerald Dial artist Geneva Mercer former NFL scout and administrator Buddy Nix Dr. Since 1963, the Society of the Golden Key has recognized 244 alumni and faculty members whose work and deeds have benefitted the university. Since 2012 he’s served as the department’s IRA subject matter expert, with emphasis on legislation, federal laws and estate planning. Working in Birmingham, Montgomery and Huntsville, Poole’s role expanded until he became the Regions Wealth Management Department’s trust auditor and compliance officer in 2003. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in personal accountancy from Mississippi State University and successfully completed academic programs at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Cannon Financial Institute in Athens, Georgia, and Chicago’s Ed Slott and Company, which offers professional training in IRA planning.Īfter beginning his career in Mississippi as a staff accountant and bank auditor and trust operations manager, Poole returned to Alabama and joined Regions Financial Corporation in 1987 as a trust tax officer. Librarian and bookstore manager roles at Virginia College locations in Pensacola, Florida, and Macon, Georgia, soon followed.īefore he embarked on his 35-year career with the Regions Financial Corporation Wealth Management Department, Poole graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1976 from UWA, where he served in the Student Government Association and became a member of Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. That career path led to the Alabama Department of Education naming her in 2006 as its library media specialist and technology coordinator. Starting as an elementary teacher and then as a media specialist, Eastman began specializing in technology integration and grant writing in K-12 schools. She also holds master’s degree certifications from Alabama State University in Montgomery and Spring Hill College in Mobile.Īfter graduating from UWA, Eastman worked at a variety of educational institutions for 41 years in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. The holder of three degrees in elementary education from UWA (bachelors in 1976 master’s in 1978 post-graduate certification in 1981), Eastman earned her doctorate in educational administration from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2001. Poole Jr., of Trussville, were honored Saturday during UWA’s spring commencement exercises at Tiger Stadium. Virginia Eastman, of Fairhope, and John H. Story: Phillip Tutor | Photo: Betsy ComptonĪ distinguished educator and administrator who has taught in three states and a renowned retirement planner and training instructor have been inducted into the University of West Alabama’s Society of the Golden Key, the highest award given to its graduates and faculty members.ĭr. University's highest award goes to Poole, Eastman ![]() ![]() ![]() Ken Tucker at the university's recent commencement exercises. Tim Edwards, Society of the Golden Key inductees John Poole and Virginia Eastman, and UWA President Dr.
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