ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, January 25, 1996 TAG: 9601250020
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: PULASKI
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
An about-to-retire U.S. Marine Corps officer will become Pulaski's new finance director Feb. 6.
Maj. William W. "Wade" Bartlett, a native of Paducah, Ky., was unanimously recommended for the post from a field of 40 to 50 applicants by the town's Finance Committee. Town Council voted to hire him at a special meeting Wednesday.
"We're a little more relaxed than that around here," Mayor Andy Graham assured Bartlett, who was standing almost at attention while being welcomed by the governing body.
Bartlett had a distinguished career in financial management in the United States Marine Corps before accepting the Pulaski job, Graham said. "You come to us with high credentials. We sincerely believe you have the financial management and leadership skills to make our Finance Department the best in this region."
Assistant Finance Director Anita Taylor has been running the town's Finance Department since the resignation of the last director, Max Beyer, a former Roanoke District state tax department administrator.
Beyer stepped down in October after five months on the job, citing the long commute from Roanoke and other career plans.
Bartlett's starting salary will be $36,000 a year, plus benefits and moving expenses.
Bartlett joined the Marines in 1976 and attended Officers Candidate School at Quantico. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1977 and promoted three times during his 20-year career.
After graduating from the Financial Management Officers School at Camp Lejeune, N.C., he served as an assistant payroll officer at Lejeune and later for a unit in Okinawa.
He holds a political science degree from East Carolina University, and masters degrees in operations management from the University of Arkansas and in financial management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.
His most recent posts have been as controller for a Marine Corps Air Station headquarters unit at Beaufort, N.C., and assistant controller chief of staff for the 2nd Marine Division at Lejeune. He will retire from the service at the end of this month.
While at Beaufort, he served on the School Board and was a county chairman for two United Way campaigns. He and his wife, Charlotte, have two sons: Brad, 14, and Jonathan, 10. They plan to move to Pulaski.
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