President -Dale Lee (2008-2011)
Mercer County
Learning Disabilities Math Teacher – Princeton High
1558 Quarrier Street
Charleston, WV 25311
Phone: 304-346-5315 ext 117 or 1-800-642-8261 ext 117
email - dlee@wvea.org
President's blog
“The WVEA stands for quality improvement in education. Working for the future of students, employees and schools. Professional development opportunities for beginning teachers are extremely important. The WVEA provides the best professional development opportunities of any group.”
Vice President – Wayne Spangler (2008-2011)
Monroe County
Elementary teacher - Peterstown Elem.
HC 81, Box 43
Ballard, WV 24918
phone: 304-753-9253
wspangler@wvva.net
“The WVEA has been, and continues to be the voice for public education in West Virginia. We are outspoken advocates for our members, our schools, and most importantly – the children of West Virginia.”
Treasurer - Doris Tuckwiller-Wood (2010-2013)
Berkeley County
EEL instructor
397 Snooks Lane
Martinsburg, WV 25401
Phone: 304-263-5040
dctuckwd@aol.com
“WVEA is the most powerful and influential education employee advocacy group in West Virginia, also the most democratic. The WVEA is clearly the voice of public education.”
NEA Director - Thomas E. Fletcher (2009-2012)
Berkeley County
Title I Reading and Math Teacher – Berkeley Heights Elementary
915 West Virginia Avenue
Martinsburg, WV 25401
Phone: 304-263-6185 (H)
thomasfletcher@comcast.net
"WVEA is so much more than people realize. In addition to the services WVEA provides its members, it also is the guardian of public education throughout the state. WVEA is one of the major factors behind the high quality of our public schools."
Gwen Lacy (2010-2013)
McDowell County
Elementary teacher
668 P.O. Box 187
Roderfield, WV 24881
Phone: 304-436-3985
glacy54@hotmail.com
"WVEA has been my service organization for over 25 years. I have worked to make it a strong-viable organization. It contains friends and colleagues I’ve known and worked with for those same 25 years. There is no greater wealth of information, help and mentoring available – WVEA provides history, experience and fellowship by those around you doing the same job you are.”
Alice Ann Guyon (2008-2011)
Grant County
P.O. Box 1291
Petersburg, WV 26847
Phone: 304-257-1525 (H)
aliceann_guyon@hotmail.com
“WVEA is a powerful voice for students, teachers and members. WVEA means economic and educational progress in West Virginia. WVEA is the organization that policy makers confer with when offering educational solutions. WVEA has political respect. With WVEA no teacher or member stands alone in the struggle for fairness and equal treatment in the workplace."
Denis Chapman (2009-2012)
Cabell County
Vocational School - English
32 Fairfax Drive
Huntington, WV 25705
Phone: 304-697-2082
dhchapma@aol.com
"If you are a professional educator, you should be concerned about those things that impact your profession. WVEA is 'the' advocate for professional educators."
Carlynn Kay Smith - ESP Representative (2008-2011)
Jefferson County
Page Jackson - classroom aide
7255 Queen Street
Kearneysville, WV 25430
Phone: 304-725-8959
kadezoo@frontiernet.net
"WVEA stands for quality improvement in education. Working for the future of our children as well as education employees has always been WVEA's goal. WVEA provides the best professional development opportunities of any group in the state. Make sure you take advantage of this opportunity."
Eileen Poling (2009-2012)
Tucker County
Teacher of gifted students
215 Homewood Street
Parsons, WV 26287
Phone: 304-478-3900
eileenon@hotmail.com
“The WVEA means working with and getting to know people from across the state who share similar interests.”
Fred Farris (2010-2013)
Raleigh County - Independence Middle School
Math teacher - middle school
122 1/2 E. Main Street
Beckley, WV 26801
Phone: 304-255-6534
ffarris@hotmail.com
“No West Virginia education employee can consider himself or herself a consummate professional without the benefit of membership in the “only” true organization for professionals – the WVEA. An employee without membership suggests he or she lacks understanding or possesses within his or her character a willingness to benefit at the expense of other fellow WVEA professionals.”
Bev Hartley (2010-2013)
Jackson County
Autism teacher - Ripley Elementary
HC 74 Box 93C
Ripley, WV 25271
Phone: 304-531-1970
msbevk@hotmail.com
“WVEA is the professional organization for the education employee. We stand for honesty, integrity, hard work and progress. We bring forth good, meaningful issues to the legislature. WVEA means teachers working together with all employees to create better schools for all of us. This is where you can connect your professional life with a social life. You can meet people from all over the state with issues and causes like yours. You can get great ideas from the young and older members.”
John Quesenberry (2009-2012)
Raleigh County
History teacher - Woodrow Wilson
911 W. Neville St.
Beckley, WV 25801
Phone: 304-222-0271
coachqparkpride@yahoo.com
"WVEA is the voice for educators in our state. The WVEA is the thread that unites all education employees in all counties. WVEA is our voice!"
Kathy Wright (2008-2011)
Berkeley County
Classroom teacher
40 Cleo Drive
Inwood, WV 25428
Phone: 229-0525
tarheelatheart3@verizon.net
“Membership in the WVEA is important for the protection it gives to each member. For new employees, it is an opportunity to know how WVEA works as a team.”
Kay Smith – WVEA-R (2009-2012)
Greenbrier County - Retired Elementary Teacher
805 Kanawha Avenue
Rainelle, WV 25962
Phone: 438-8977
ksmithktch@aol.com
“I believe WVEA is the only educational employee organization that works in a positive way for the students in West Virginia.”