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\u201cIt\u2019s been so much fun. And I don\u2019t see myself slowing down anytime soon.\u201d That quote tells you everything you need to know about why Mike Sanders (\u201981) has been named Georgia Southern Alumnus of the Year. His commitment to the University has been long-running and far-reaching, yet he firmly believes he\u2019s gotten more than he\u2019s given.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know of a more True Blue member of the Eagle Nation,\u201d says University President Brooks A. Keel, Ph.D. \u201cHe\u2019s always there with tireless support for all aspects of the University.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGeorgia Southern became my home,\u201d says Sanders. He was born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, but his parents moved out of state shortly before he began college. \u201cI started spending summers here,\u201d he says. His Phi Delta Theta fraternity brothers became a second family. He also found a sweetheart among his classmates\u2014Danna (\u201981), now his wife.<\/p>\n
When he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing, moved to Atlanta and began a 30-plus-year career in financial services, his Georgia Southern ties remained strong. Today, he is Senior Vice President for Wealth Management with UBS Financial Services. \u201cOur business is named Eagle Creek Wealth Management,\u201d he chuckles. \u201cMy partner, Ben Dukes, is also a Georgia Southern graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sanders serves on the Georgia Southern Foundation Board of Trustees and is the Investment Committee Chairman, he is also a former Alumni Association Board member as well as a charter member of the Foundation\u2019s 1906 Society. He and Danna are members of the Marvin Pittman Society\u2019s Southern Fellows and the family has endowed two scholarships.<\/p>\n
\u201cMike loves this university, and his involvement is sincere and deep,\u201d notes Salinda Arthur, vice president for University Advancement, and president of the Georgia Southern University Foundation.<\/p>\n
The College of Business Administration named him their 2011 Alumnus of the Year, and he is currently a member of the College\u2019s Advisory Council.<\/p>\n
Sanders is a member of the Georgia Southern football Transition 20 leadership group, a former Athletic Foundation Board member, and, as a brother of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, he is active in the current re-colonization of its Georgia Southern chapter.<\/p>\n
The Sanders have three grown children, Stephanie, Robbie and Caroline (\u201913), a Georgia Southern graduate in whom Sanders says the Eagle tradition continues. Though only a recent graduate, Caroline is already involved on the Young Alumni Board with the College of Business. – Lynn Lilly<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael Sanders named 2015 Alumnus of the Year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-spring-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}